Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Mount Indie; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Indie is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the design of critical electrical hardware for aircraft, spanning power electronics, battery charging, high-speed networks, and system integration.

You will work across detailed circuit development, system-level tradeoffs, and hardware debugging with a strong emphasis on reliability and safety-critical performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for shipped or fielded products.
• U.S. Person status required due to ITAR regulations.
• Strong fundamentals across analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, interpret and resolve systems engineering problems to meet design requirements.
• Full-cycle hardware development from concept to production and validation.
• Design embedded control electronics, including PCB design, board bring‑up, and flight test.
• Design multilayer PCBs (HDI, flex, rigid-flex) for constrained applications.
• Generate engineering documentation, ECOs, BOMs, and release packages.
• Root-cause analysis of PCB design or layout issues and corrective actions.

Skills

Root-cause analysis

Clear communication

Project management

Electrical fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/physics or related field

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence Allegro/OrCAD

Job description

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will play a central role in developing critical electrical hardware for our aircraft. The role spans complex technical challenges including power distribution, power conversion, battery charging, high-performance processing, high-speed network communications, and system-level electrical integration.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep technical expertise in power electronics and electrical system design who is comfortable moving between detailed circuit development, system-level tradeoffs, and difficult hardware debugging.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate, interpret and resolve systems engineering problems to meet the design requirements
• Full-cycle hardware development: Own the entire flow — concept, modeling, worst case analysis, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, design reiteration for improving design maturity, testing and validation
• Design embedded control electronics from concept to production, including hardware selection, schematic & PCB design, board bring-up, system-level integration, and flight test
• Design multilayer, HDI, flex, and rigid-flex PCBs for space-, weight-, and thermally constrained applications
• Generate comprehensive engineering documentation, including ECOs, fabrication drawings, BOMs, and release packages
• Conduct root cause analysis of PCB design or layout issues, identify corrective actions, and implement solutions to improve performance, manufacturability, or reliability
• Design and maintain cable harness documentation using Altium Harness Designer
• Interface with vendors to source and select appropriate components for designs, ensuring quality and timely delivery
• Project Management: Support project timelines and ensure that technical milestones are met, reporting on progress to senior management
• Work closely with other electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional products

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for products that have shipped, flown, operated in the field, or otherwise seen real-world use
• U.S. Person status (Citizen or Permanent Resident) required due to ITAR regulations
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals across analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits
• Strong proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro/OrCAD)
• Working knowledge of PCB layout tradeoffs, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and manufacturability
• Familiarity with signal integrity and transmission line concepts (e.g., phase matching, crosstalk, insertion/return loss, termination, and BGA breakout strategies)
• Strong root-cause analysis skills and the ability to move from ambiguous symptoms to clear technical conclusions and practical corrective actions
• Clear communication and documentation habits, especially when decisions affect safety, reliability, production, or fleet operations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with avionics, aerospace, drones, robotics, automotive electronics, satellites, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Experience designing for weight, power consumption, thermal limits, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, environmental exposure, or high-volume manufacturing.
• Familiarity with signal integrity simulation and analysis tools
• Experience with CAN, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, GNSS, radios, motor-control electronics, battery systems, or sensor interfaces.