Lead Electrical Engineer – Aerospace & UAS Systems

AV; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K with company match

9/80 work schedule

Job summary

AV is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic parts and circuitry for aerospace hardware and UAS systems. The role involves selecting components based on specs and reliability, and leading cross-functional teams from requirements through production.

You will review vendor capability and drive system-level engineering activities across software, hardware, manufacturing, and safety domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 8 years of electrical engineering experience, with at least 5 in design and development.
• Experience leading electrical engineering activities including requirements, architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, and PCBA and system test. FPGA experience a plus.
• Experience owning or leading Integration & Test execution for complex aerospace, defense, embedded, or mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of systems engineering and integration professionals, including staffing, workload planning, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
• Own systems engineering execution from requirements development and decomposition through system integration, verification, validation, and transition to production.
• Own I&T planning and execution, including integration readiness, test planning, procedure development, test conduct, data review, issue resolution, and reporting.
• Manage requirements traceability, allocation, verification planning, and technical baseline evolution throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Lead development of system-level artifacts such as requirements, interface definitions, technical plans, test plans, procedures, reports, and customer-facing technical presentations.
• Coordinate across software, hardware, manufacturing, quality, reliability, safety, flight test, and program management teams to achieve cost, schedule, and technical objectives.
• Support airworthiness, system safety, and reliability activities, including field test safety, hazard-related technical coordination, and reliability growth / issue closure as applicable.
• Provide clear and timely status of technical progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans to internal leadership and external customers.
• Serve as a primary customer-facing technical representative for systems engineering matters, including reviews, status discussions, technical issue resolution, and execution alignment.
• Support development planning and execution in coordination with program management, including schedule, resource, and technical performance considerations.
• Ensure adherence to company processes, engineering discipline, and operational policies while driving practical, executable solutions.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Electrical engineering

Requirements management

FPGA experience

System integration testing

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

AV is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic parts and circuitry for aerospace hardware and UAS systems. The role involves selecting components based on specs and reliability, and leading cross-functional teams from requirements through production.

You will review vendor capability and drive system-level engineering activities across software, hardware, manufacturing, and safety domains.