Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer - Autonomous Systems

CHIRP Robotics Corporation; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CHIRP Robotics seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to own the avionics powering autonomous systems. You will lead electrical design from architecture and component selection through board bring-up and production, collaborating with firmware, radar, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

You will define architectures, perform schematic capture, and guide PCB layouts for high-speed interfaces while ensuring signal integrity and EMI/EMC compliance across the system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of electrical hardware development, including ownership of boards or subsystems through bring-up and production.
• Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB design tools, with experience reviewing multilayer PCB layouts.

Responsibilities

• Define electrical architectures, interfaces, power budgets, and design requirements for embedded compute, sensing, communications, and actuation.
• Design schematics and guide PCB layout for mixed-signal electronics, processors, memory, sensors, and power conversion and distribution.
• Analyze signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, clocking, thermal constraints, and component derating; review layouts and resolve design risks.
• Lead board bring-up and characterize electrical performance using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, electronic loads, and other laboratory equipment.
• Integrate radar and other sensor modules, addressing power quality, timing, interface integrity, shielding, and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Define and execute verification plans, troubleshoot failures, and support environmental and EMC testing appropriate to the product.
• Own design reviews, bills of materials, component lifecycle decisions, and engineering changes; support test fixtures, manufacturing transfer, and production yield.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate electrical decisions with firmware, mechanical packaging, and system performance requirements.

Skills

Schematic capture

PCB design

Embedded firmware collaboration

Lab debugging

Signal integrity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Cadence/Pspice

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

CHIRP Robotics seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to own the avionics powering autonomous systems. You will lead electrical design from architecture and component selection through board bring-up and production, collaborating with firmware, radar, mechanical, and manufacturing teams.

You will define architectures, perform schematic capture, and guide PCB layouts for high-speed interfaces while ensuring signal integrity and EMI/EMC compliance across the system.