Power Electronics & Avionics Engineer — On-Site LA

Job Juncture

Los Angeles (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 220,000

Full time

42 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Early-employee equity
Relocation assistance

Job summary

Job Juncture seeks an Electrical Engineer for circuit design and power electronics in Los Angeles. You will own power and actuator drive electronics for flight hardware, coordinating with embedded software and control teams to enable rapid, high-integrity bring-up and testing.

This full-time, on-site role offers competitive base pay ($150K–$220K) with early-employee equity and relocation support, enabling impactful contributions to national-security programs while growing with a fast-moving

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 (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in your 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
Power electronics
PCB design
EMI/EMC design
Lab debugging
Schematic capture

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium
KiCad
SPICE
Oscilloscopes

Job description

Job Juncture seeks an Electrical Engineer for circuit design and power electronics in Los Angeles. You will own power and actuator drive electronics for flight hardware, coordinating with embedded software and control teams to enable rapid, high-integrity bring-up and testing.

This full-time, on-site role offers competitive base pay ($150K–$220K) with early-employee equity and relocation support, enabling impactful contributions to national-security programs while growing with a fast-moving

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