Principal Electrical Engineer - Avionics & Flight Controls

Neon Aerospace; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Health benefits (health, vision, dent.

401(k)

Job summary

Neon Aero in Irvine, CA is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead architecture, design, and qualification of high-integrity electronic control systems across our product portfolio. This role is deeply hands-on and interfaces with software, mechanical, power electronics, test, manufacturing, and certification teams to bring reliable systems from concept through production.

Focus areas include controller electronics, fault detection, redundancy, and interfaces such as CAN, ARINC,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience developing and shipping complex electronic systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with embedded digital and mixed-signal hardware, including microcontroller-based systems, sensing, communications, and board-level power architecture.
• Strong proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design using Altium or equivalent ECAD tools.
• Experience designing fault-tolerant or redundant electronic architectures and reasoning about failure detection, fault containment, and safe-state behavior.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical system architecture for high-integrity controller electronics, FCCs, LRUs, actuator controllers, avionics/compute platforms, sensing systems, and related embedded hardware.
• Architect command/monitor, active-active, simplex, duplex, or other redundant control architectures based on system safety, integrity, availability, and cost requirements.
• Lead schematic development and critical PCB design reviews using Altium or equivalent ECAD tools.
• Perform worst-case circuit analysis, tolerance analysis, derating, signal-integrity analysis, power-budget analysis, and fault analysis.
• Lead board bring-up, system integration, lab debugging, and root-cause investigations for issues spanning hardware, firmware, software, sensors, communications, and power electronics.

Skills

Leadership

System architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Programmable supplies

DAQ

Job description

Neon Aero in Irvine, CA is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead architecture, design, and qualification of high-integrity electronic control systems across our product portfolio. This role is deeply hands-on and interfaces with software, mechanical, power electronics, test, manufacturing, and certification teams to bring reliable systems from concept through production.

Focus areas include controller electronics, fault detection, redundancy, and interfaces such as CAN, ARINC,