Senior Avionics Architect: Lead Aircraft Electronics

Hardware FYI; Alameda, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity (early-stage)

Relocation assistance

Health benefits

6% retirement matching

Flexible PTO

Free lunches and snacks

AI tools subscriptions

Job summary

Poseidon Aerospace seeks a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the aircraft's electrical and avionics architecture, mission systems, and ground control station. You will decide power, computers, and data networks, and guide hardware through design, build, qualification, and flight test.

You will drive redundancy, interfaces, and safety assessments, leading design reviews and mentoring other engineers as parts of a critical early-stage program. This role is based in the SF Bay Area.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and integrating avionics or electrical systems on aircraft or spacecraft.
• Owned the electrical or avionics architecture of a vehicle or major subsystem from concept through test.
• Designed power distribution systems with protection and load analysis.
• Took avionics hardware through integration and ground/flight test on a real vehicle.
• Experience with redundancy design and failure mode analysis for safety-critical hardware.
• Led design reviews and set technical direction for other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical and avionics architecture of the aircraft, mission systems, and ground control station, including redundancy and failure behavior.
• Define the power system architecture, including generation, storage, distribution, and protection, and own the electrical load analysis.
• Lead selection and qualification of flight computers, mission computers, actuators, sensors, radios, and datalinks.
• Define the data bus and network architecture across the aircraft and ground control station.
• Own interface control documents between avionics, flight software, GNC, propulsion, and airframe.
• Set standards for schematics, wire harness design, grounding, bonding, and shielding.
• Plan and lead EMI/EMC and environmental qualification testing.
• Define the flight test instrumentation architecture with the flight test team.
• Lead root cause analysis of avionics hardware failures in ground and flight test, including travel to our flight test site.
• Support system safety assessments and certification evidence for avionics hardware.
• Manage avionics suppliers and outside test labs.
• Lead design reviews and mentor other avionics engineers.

Skills

Avionics design ownership

5+ years experience

Redundancy design

Failure mode analysis

Design reviews leadership

Integration testing on hardware

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering or related field

Job description

Poseidon Aerospace seeks a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the aircraft's electrical and avionics architecture, mission systems, and ground control station. You will decide power, computers, and data networks, and guide hardware through design, build, qualification, and flight test.

You will drive redundancy, interfaces, and safety assessments, leading design reviews and mentoring other engineers as parts of a critical early-stage program. This role is based in the SF Bay Area.