Power Electronics Hardware Engineer

amca llc; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Amca in El Segundo seeks an electrical designer to take concepts through flight-qualified hardware. You will expand the catalog by designing aerospace hardware and collaborating with build and test engineers to bring products to life.

This role emphasizes hands-on development, from schematics and layout to bench testing and qualification plans, with a focus on reliability and cost. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to a growing, defense-related portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience applying first-principles to power, filtering, and logic.
• Experience in electrical schematic layout and simulation to meet requirements.
• Hands-on debugging with oscilloscope and meters.
• Curious, fast learner, capable across parts and processes.
• Ability to challenge and simplify requirements through engineering principles.
• Hands-on and practical—comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own design and prototyping of new electrical hardware.
• Work with customers to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed.
• Take full ownership of electrical design for flight hardware, including electrical schematic creation, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout.
• Own the prototype and bring-up of early revision hardware and rapidly iterate to finalize designs, including bench testing and basic functional and development tests.
• Work with test engineering to define and execute qualification plans including functional and environmental testing.
• Work with build engineers to ensure new designs are manufacturable at supply chain or production facilities and DFM feedback is implemented.
• Manage drawing revisions, BOM structure, and part configuration in accordance with aerospace standards and internal design controls.
• Continue to iterate on Amca designs to ensure they are fully optimized for reliability and cost.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic layout

Hardware prototyping

Component selection

DFM & manufacturing

Hands-on debugging

First-principles thinking

Tools

Oscilloscope

Multimeter

Logic analyzer

PCB layout tools

Job description

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview:

You will take electrical products from concept to flight qualification. Your primary function will be to expand Amca's product catalog by designing new aerospace hardware and working closely with build and test engineers to bring your products to life.

Responsibilities:

• Own design and prototyping of new electrical hardware

  • Work with customers to understand end-use applications and challenge requirements as needed

  • Take full ownership of electrical design for flight hardware, including electrical schematic creation, electrical analysis, component selection, de-rating, and PCBA layout

  • Own the prototype and bring-up of early revision hardware and rapidly iterate to finalize designs, including bench testing and basic functional and development tests.

  • Work with test engineering to define and execute qualification plans including functional and environmental testing

  • Work with build engineers to ensure new designs are manufacturable at supply chain or production facilities and DFM feedback is implemented

  • Manage drawing revisions, BOM structure, and part configuration in accordance with aerospace standards and internal design controls

  • Continue to iterate on Amca designs to ensure they are fully optimized for reliability and cost

• Support Amca with factory diligence and company development

  • Evaluate product catalogs and help determine where largest opportunities lie for catalog expansion

  • Assist in the evaluation of factory design, manufacturing, and test capabilities

  • Mentor early career mechanical engineers

  • Assist with recruiting mechanical engineers and building the mechanical engineering team at Amca

Qualifications:

• Experience with electrical design, applying first-principles thinking to power, filtering, logic, software/firmware, and production constraints.
• Experience in electrical schematic layout, component selection, and simulation to meet customer requirements.
• Comfortable with hands‑on debugging using oscilloscopes, multimeters, and logic analyzers.
• Exceptionally curious and fast learner; able to contribute across diverse part categories and manufacturing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to use engineering first principles to challenge and simplify requirements.
• Hands‑on and practical—comfortable building, testing, and troubleshooting in real‑world environments.
• Independent and creative; thrives with ownership and minimal oversight.
• Plus: familiarity with DO‑160, MIL‑STD, or other qualification and certification frameworks

Annual Salary Range

$105,000 — $135,000 USD

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

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