Flight Avionics Power Electronics Engineer – On-Site LA

NPAworldwide; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide is seeking an Electrical Engineer to own power electronics and actuator drive electronics for high-performance flight hardware in Los Angeles. You will design power distribution, BMS, and EMI/EMC solutions, and bring up mission-critical boards with a hands-on, fast-moving team.

You will collaborate with embedded software, systems, and controls engineers, build test infra, and define scalable electrical architectures for rapid manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in circuit design and power electronics.
• Power systems experience in demanding hardware environments (aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, or similar).
• Strong PCB design and layout with a system-level EMC approach (grounding, shielding, filtering, signal and power integrity).
• Hands-on lab experience debugging hardware and bringing up boards.
• Proven ability to take designs from schematic to layout to integration and test.
• Experience in a rapid development, 0-to-1 environment.
• Daily use of frontier AI tools in workflow.
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship).
• Able to work fully on-site in Los Angeles, plus monthly weekend travel.

Responsibilities

• Design power distribution and conversion systems, including battery management, power regulation, and protection circuits.
• Own actuator drive electronics for the fin control actuation system: power stage, current sensing, motor commutation, position-interface front end, and motor-bus partitioning.
• Create schematics, PCB layouts, and bring-up procedures for mission-critical analog and digital avionics.
• Lead EMI/EMC design and validation, including power integrity, grounding, and mitigation strategies.
• Partner with embedded software, systems, and controls engineers to integrate and tune hardware on the bench.
• Build test infrastructure and validation procedures, and handle debugging, integration, and environmental testing.
• Help define scalable electrical architecture standards for high-rate manufacturing.

Skills

Circuit design experience

Power electronics

PCB design

EMC/EMI expertise

Schematic-to-test workflow

AI tools usage

Citizenship requirement

On-site work in LA

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium/KiCad

SPICE

FPGA interfaces

Oscilloscopes/Lab equipment

Job description

NPAworldwide is seeking an Electrical Engineer to own power electronics and actuator drive electronics for high-performance flight hardware in Los Angeles. You will design power distribution, BMS, and EMI/EMC solutions, and bring up mission-critical boards with a hands-on, fast-moving team.

You will collaborate with embedded software, systems, and controls engineers, build test infra, and define scalable electrical architectures for rapid manufacturing.