Senior Avionics Engineer - Lead Aircraft Avionics

Poseidon Aerospace; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Health benefit plans

6% retirement matching

Flexible PTO

Free lunches and stocked fridge

AI tools and subscriptions

Job summary

Poseidon Aerospace in Berkeley, CA, is seeking a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the electrical and avionics architecture for the aircraft, mission systems, and ground control station. You will decide power, computers, data buses, interfaces, and failure behavior through design, build, and flight test.

You will lead EMI/EMC testing, define loads, manage suppliers, and mentor other engineers, setting the technical bar for the avionics team as the project advances toward flight testing.

Qualifications

• B.S. in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years designing and integrating avionics or electrical systems on aircraft, spacecraft, or comparable vehicles
• Owned the electrical or avionics architecture of a vehicle or major subsystem from concept through test
• Designed power distribution systems, including circuit protection and load analysis
• Took avionics hardware through integration and ground or 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

System safety analysis

Root cause analysis

Design reviews

Leadership

Education

B.S. in electrical engineering or related field

Tools

DO-160/DO-254 standards

Flight software interfaces

Job description

Poseidon Aerospace in Berkeley, CA, is seeking a Senior Avionics Engineer to own the electrical and avionics architecture for the aircraft, mission systems, and ground control station. You will decide power, computers, data buses, interfaces, and failure behavior through design, build, and flight test.

You will lead EMI/EMC testing, define loads, manage suppliers, and mentor other engineers, setting the technical bar for the avionics team as the project advances toward flight testing.