Senior Electrical Engineer

Medium; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Odin Dynamics is hiring multiple Senior Electrical Engineers to own critical electrical subsystems for our underwater autonomous platforms. You will take ownership from requirements through production, collaborating with Embedded Software, Avionics, Power Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, and Test teams.

You will mentor others while staying deeply hands-on with hardware, bring-up, verification, and field testing.

Qualifications

• Deep practical expertise in one or more of: high-speed digital electronics, motor-control electronics, or battery/power electronics.
• Strong schematic design and PCB layout experience.
• Willingness to work across electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for a major electrical subsystem.
• Develop greenfield hardware from requirements to production-ready implementation.
• Own schematic design, PCB layout, component selection, and validation.
• Design high-reliability electronics under size, weight, power and environmental constraints.
• Create architectures and interfaces in collaboration with software, avionics, power electronics, and mechanical teams.
• Design and review multilayer PCBs and high-speed interfaces; ensure power integrity.
• Bring up boards in lab, validate hardware/software integration with embedded software engineers.
• Debug power rails, clocks, signal integrity, noise, thermal behavior, and hardware/software interactions.
• Use lab instruments to identify root causes and perform board-level and system-level tests.
• Develop and execute board-level validation, integration, and system-level tests.
• Coordinate with manufacturing partners to transition designs to production.
• Produce engineering documentation to enable manufacturing and future development.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical reviews while remaining hands-on.

Skills

High-speed digital electronics

Motor-control electronics

Battery and power electronics

Job description

About Odin Dynamics

Founded in 2025, Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles that will define the next era of undersea warfare. We are focused on delivering capable, resilient autonomous systems that strengthen the strategic advantage of the United States and its allied navies. We move fast, build real hardware, and operate with the urgency that the mission demands.

We are building a new platform from the ground up. This is not a role where you will inherit a mature product with every architectural decision already made. You will take incomplete requirements, early hardware, and difficult technical constraints and turn them into dependable, production-ready autonomy systems.

We value rigorous engineering without unnecessary process. Decisions should be driven by physics, test data, and product outcomes—not inherited convention or documentation volume.

The Role

Odin Dynamics is hiring multiple Senior Electrical Engineers to serve as Responsible Engineers for critical electrical subsystems across our platform.

Each engineer will take primary technical ownership of one of three areas:

• High-speed digital electronics and embedded compute hardware

• Motor-control and drive electronics

• Battery, power electronics, and power-distribution hardware

Candidates will apply to a common requisition, and Odin Dynamics will determine the best area of focus through the interview process. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise in at least one area who are also comfortable working across electrical architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, embedded systems, power electronics, manufacturing, testing, and the broader engineering domain.

As the Responsible Engineer for your subsystem, you will own the hardware throughout its lifecycle: requirements, architecture, detailed design, schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, analysis, bring-up, verification, field testing, production support, failure analysis, and continued improvement after deployment.

This is a hands‑on individual‑contributor position. You will be expected to design real hardware, make technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and remain accountable for the performance and reliability of your subsystem. There are no organizational handoffs when a difficult problem crosses the boundary between electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, or test engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for a major electrical subsystem.

• Develop greenfield electrical hardware from initial requirements and architecture through field‑tested, production‑ready implementation.

• Own schematic design, PCB layout, component selection, design reviews, analysis, bring‑up, validation, production support, and sustaining improvements.

• Design high‑reliability electronics for systems with strict size, weight, power, thermal, performance, and environmental constraints.

• Create electrical architectures and hardware interfaces in close collaboration with Embedded Software, Avionics, Power Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Test Engineering.

• Design and review multilayer PCBs, high‑speed digital interfaces, controlled‑impedance routing, mixed‑signal circuitry, high‑current power paths, power sequencing, clocking, reset behavior, grounding, and board‑level power distribution.

• Bring up new boards in the lab and work closely with embedded software engineers to validate hardware/software integration.

• Debug board‑level and system‑level issues involving power rails, clocks, resets, signal integrity, noise, thermal behavior, communications, intermittent faults, and hardware/software interactions.

• Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, electronic loads, power supplies, thermal cameras, and related lab equipment to identify root causes.

• Develop and execute board‑level validation tests, integration tests, and system‑level tests.

• Work with Test Engineering to validate systems in laboratory, field, and sea‑trial environments.

• Support production testing, investigate failures on deployed hardware, and own corrective improvements throughout the product lifecycle.

• Coordinate with manufacturing partners, PCB fabricators, assembly vendors, component suppliers, and internal manufacturing teams to transition designs from prototype to production.

• Produce concise, functional engineering documentation that enables implementation, testing, operation, manufacturing, and future development.

• Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical reviews without moving away from hands‑on engineering.

Areas of Focus

High‑Speed Digital Electronics

The High‑Speed Digital Electronics Responsible Engineer will own electrical hardware for embedded compute and vehicle electronics, including:

• Embedded compute carrier boards

• Processor, microcontroller, memory, storage, and peripheral interfaces

• High‑speed digital design, controlled impedance, signal integrity, and power integrity

• High‑speed digital, memory, and storage interfaces, with associated clocks, resets, and power sequencing

• Power distribution for compute and vehicle electronics

• Board bring‑up, validation, diagnostics, production support, and failure investigation

• Close collaboration with embedded Linux and firmware engineers during platform bring‑up and hardware/software integration

Motor Controls / Drive Electronics

The Motor Controls Responsible Engineer will own electrical hardware for motor‑control systems, including:

• Motor‑controller hardware and power‑stage electronics

• Motor‑drive electronics and commutation hardware

• Gate drivers, current and voltage sensing, protection circuits, and control interfaces

• Microcontroller‑based control boards and supporting power, clocking, reset, and communication circuits

• High‑current layout, switching behavior, noise mitigation, thermal considerations, and fault protection

• Integration with embedded firmware, power electronics, vehicle‑level controls, and test systems

• Board bring‑up, validation, diagnostics, production support, and failure investigation

Batteries / Power Electronics

The Batteries and Power Electronics Responsible Engineer will own electrical hardware for battery‑management, power electronics, and power‑distribution systems, including:

• Battery‑management hardware

• Cell‑monitoring, sensing, balancing, protection, and communication circuits

• Power‑distribution electronics and supporting control hardware

• Microcontroller‑based battery‑management boards and supporting power, clocking, reset, and communication circuits

• Power switching, monitoring, sequencing, protection, fault detection, and diagnostic interfaces

• Integration with embedded firmware, power electronics, vehicle‑level systems, and test systems

• Board bring‑up, validation, diagnostics, production support, and failure investigation

What We’re Looking For

• Deep practical expertise in one or more of:

  • High‑speed digital electronics;

  • Motor‑control or drive electronics;

  • Battery, power electronics, or power‑distribution hardware.

• Sufficient familiarity with adjacent electrical and embedded systems to collaborate across subsystem boundaries.

• Strong experience designing, reviewing, and bringing up complex PCBs within your primary technical specialization.

• Strong schematic design and PCB layout experience.

• Experience with multilayer boards, high‑speed digital design, controlled impedance, mixed‑signal design, high‑current power, high‑voltage or power‑constrained systems, dense embedded compute boards, and ruggedized electronics.

• Experience designing hardware that integrates tightly with embedded Linux, bare‑metal firmware, RTOS‑based firmware, sensors, actuators, power systems, and vehicle‑level controls.

• Experience reading datasheets deeply, selecting components, defining interfaces, and making first‑principles engineering tradeoffs.

• Experience debugging integrated hardware/software systems using lab equipment and structured root‑cause analysis.

• Experience designing for real‑world constraints such as noise, thermal behavior, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and environmental robustness.

• Experience working closely with embedded software engineers during board bring‑up and hardware/software integration.

• Experience developing board‑level validation plans, writing test procedures, executing tests, analyzing results, and driving design improvements.

• Experience supporting production test, manufacturing transition, failure analysis, and sustaining engineering after initial production.

• Demonstrated ability to work from first principles, make progress with incomplete information, and rapidly iterate between design, implementation, testing, and refinement.

• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight while collaborating closely across engineering disciplines.

• Willingness to support field testing and sea trials when required.

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Approximately five or more years of relevant electrical engineering experience is preferred, but demonstrated technical depth, multidisciplinary problem‑solving ability, and a record of delivering difficult hardware systems matter more than a specific number of years. Exceptional candidates at any experience level are encouraged to apply.

Preferred Experience

• Developing safety‑critical, mission‑critical, or high‑reliability products.

• Taking an electrical subsystem from a blank sheet through multiple design, implementation, test, and refinement cycles into production or operational deployment.

• Autonomous vehicles, underwater systems, UAVs, robotics, aerospace, automotive, industrial controls, medical devices, energy systems, space systems, maritime systems, or other tightly integrated electromechanical products.

• Designing electronics for harsh environments.

• Industry‑standard PCB design tools.

• Circuit simulation and analysis tools.

• Signal‑integrity and power‑integrity analysis.

• High‑speed digital, memory, and storage interfaces.

• Embedded compute hardware, processor carrier boards, microcontroller boards, power sequencing, clocking, resets, and boot configuration.

• Motor‑control electronics, drive hardware, gate drivers, inverter power stages, current sensing, protection circuits, and thermal management.

• Battery‑management hardware, cell monitoring, cell balancing, protection circuits, power switching, sequencing, diagnostics, and fault‑state design.

• Power electronics, power distribution, high‑current layout, grounding, isolation, switching converters, and protection design.

• Working with PCB fabrication, assembly, component sourcing, manufacturing engineering, and supply chain teams to move hardware from prototype to production.

At Odin Dynamics, we offer competitive salaries benchmarked against the defense and robotics industries, meaningful early‑stage equity, and benefits that cover the essentials — full covered health, dental, vision; 401(k); and paid time off.

We invest in professional development and support our people in growing their skills alongside the company. We tie compensation to the impact you have, not your title. As we grow, our compensation and benefits will grow with us. We're building this company alongside the people who join it, and we believe everyone here should share in what we build together.

$140,000 - $220,000 a year

Disclosures

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Please note that any offer for employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export control laws and regulations without sponsorship for an export license.

Odin Dynamics, Inc. participates in E‑Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Odin Dynamics is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.