Electrical Systems Architect for Multi-Domain UxS

Red Cat Holdings; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Cat Holdings, through SPiDRWORX, seeks a hands-on Electrical Engineer to design and integrate electrical architectures powering unmanned systems across air, ground, and maritime environments. You will develop power distribution, battery integration, wiring, interfaces, and control hardware, collaborating with embedded, RF/datalink, and test engineers on bench and field validation.

The role entails bringing concepts into production, conducting tests across vehicle domains, and supporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years designing or integrating electrical hardware, preferably for unmanned systems, robotics, aerospace, marine, automotive, or defense.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging electrical components, power technologies, and partner hardware through bench testing and rapid prototyping.
• Support trade studies and architecture decisions based on performance, size, weight, power, cost, compliance, environmental requirements, and supply availability.
• Assess new product concepts and customer integration requests, define electrical interfaces, and identify technical risks early.
• Design electrical systems for new and existing UxS platforms, including power distribution, battery integration, grounding, circuit protection, and power conversion.
• Create schematics and PCB layouts for power distribution, breakout, interface, and other vehicle electronics.
• Develop harness drawings and select connectors, wire, and protection methods suitable for vibration, moisture, saltwater, temperature extremes, and field use.
• Research and select electrical components such as motor controllers/ESCs, motors and actuators, batteries, regulators, and interface hardware with attention to NDAA compliance and supply availability.
• Integrate electrical interfaces for payloads, sensors, navigation systems, radios, onboard computers, and other mission equipment onto air, ground, and maritime platforms.
• Build, wire, and bring up prototype hardware; validate pinouts, power rails, signal integrity, and subsystem interfaces.
• Create and maintain electrical interface control documentation and work with embedded and RF/datalink engineers to resolve cross-functional integration issues.
• Support bench, flight, ground, and on-water testing, including test preparation, instrumentation, data collection, and post-test analysis.
• Troubleshoot electrical failures and perform root-cause analysis on vehicle and subsystem issues.
• Identify and resolve power-quality, grounding, noise, interference, and signal-integrity problems.
• Support EMI/EMC, environmental, and qualification testing as required.
• Maintain schematics, BOMs, harness drawings, interface documentation, and electrical test procedures.
• Provide design-for-manufacturing feedback and support the transition from prototype builds to repeatable production.
• Resolve electrical build and integration issues with internal production teams and contract manufacturers.
• Participate in design reviews, customer demonstrations, and field test events.

Skills

Electrical design

PCB layout

Schematic capture

Wire harness

Power electronics

Embedded interfaces

Oscilloscopes

Troubleshooting

Lab testing

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Altium

KiCad

OrCAD

Job description

Red Cat Holdings, through SPiDRWORX, seeks a hands-on Electrical Engineer to design and integrate electrical architectures powering unmanned systems across air, ground, and maritime environments. You will develop power distribution, battery integration, wiring, interfaces, and control hardware, collaborating with embedded, RF/datalink, and test engineers on bench and field validation.

The role entails bringing concepts into production, conducting tests across vehicle domains, and supporting