Flight Electronics Engineer: End-to-End Hardware Ownership

Apera; California (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apera is seeking an Electrical Engineer – Flight Computer Hardware to own safety-critical embedded electronics from initial PCBA design through bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, and flight-ready hardware. You’ll join a very small electrical engineering team, delivering hardware you personally designed that flies on aircraft, with high ownership and fast iteration in a hands-on role.

This role emphasizes bench work: board debugging, schematic changes, re-spins, test automation, and

Qualifications

• Experience owning design, bring-up and debugging of multiple PCBs.
• Strong digital, mixed-signal, power, and embedded electronics fundamentals.
• Hands-on with test equipment and board rework.
• Experience Python or similar for test automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, bring up, test, and debug complex PCBAs.
• Own electrical hardware from initial design through flight-ready implementation.
• Diagnose root causes across power, processors, memory, communications, analog I/O, sensors, and manufacturing.
• Make schematic, component, layout, and BOM changes for subsequent board spins.
• Build automated bench tests, test fixtures, and fault-injection tools.
• Characterize hardware across voltage, load, temperature, timing, and failure conditions.
• Work closely with embedded software, controls, safety, and manufacturing engineers.
• Maintain clear documentation around design decisions, anomalies, testing, and configuration history.

Skills

PCB design

Digital logic

Analog electronics

Python

Debugging

Schematic editing

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Programmable power supplies

Electronic loads

Board rework

Job description

Apera is seeking an Electrical Engineer – Flight Computer Hardware to own safety-critical embedded electronics from initial PCBA design through bring-up, qualification, manufacturing, and flight-ready hardware. You’ll join a very small electrical engineering team, delivering hardware you personally designed that flies on aircraft, with high ownership and fast iteration in a hands-on role.

This role emphasizes bench work: board debugging, schematic changes, re-spins, test automation, and