Senior Electrical Engineer, Aerospace Systems Lead

AeroVironment, Inc.; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and evaluate electronics for unmanned aircraft systems.

You will lead systems engineering activities from requirements to production, coordinate across software, hardware, and operations, and drive successful integration and test across missions. The role demands deep EE expertise, leadership, and hands-on experience with complex aerospace systems, including field testing, safety, and reliability efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent required.
• 8 years of electrical engineering experience with at least 5 in design and development.
• Experience leading electrical engineering activities including requirements, architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, and PCBA and system test; FPGA experience a plus.
• Experience owning or leading Integration & Test execution for complex aerospace, defense, embedded, or mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of systems engineering and integration professionals, including staffing, workload planning, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
• Own systems engineering execution from requirements development and decomposition through system integration, verification, validation, and transition to production.
• Own ITAR planning and execution, including integration readiness, test planning, procedure development, test conduct, data review, issue resolution, and reporting.
• Manage requirements traceability, allocation, verification planning, and technical baseline evolution throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Lead development of system-level artifacts such as requirements, interface definitions, technical plans, test plans, procedures, reports, and customer-facing technical presentations.
• Coordinate across software, hardware, manufacturing, quality, reliability, safety, flight test, and program management teams to achieve cost, schedule, and technical objectives.
• Support airworthiness, system safety, and reliability activities, including field test safety, hazard-related technical coordination, and reliability growth / issue closure as applicable.
• Provide clear and timely status of technical progress, risks, issues, and mitigation plans to internal leadership and external customers.
• Serve as a primary customer-facing technical representative for systems engineering matters, including reviews, status discussions, technical issue resolution, and execution alignment.
• Support development planning and execution in coordination with program management, including schedule, resource, and technical performance considerations.

Skills

Leadership

System integration

Requirements traceability

FPGA experience

Verbal/written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and evaluate electronics for unmanned aircraft systems.

You will lead systems engineering activities from requirements to production, coordinate across software, hardware, and operations, and drive successful integration and test across missions. The role demands deep EE expertise, leadership, and hands-on experience with complex aerospace systems, including field testing, safety, and reliability efforts.