Senior Electrical Engineer – Electromechanical Product Dev

Astronautics Corp of America; Black Mountain (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Sick leave

Vacation pay

401K

Tuition reimbursement

9/80 schedule

Job summary

Kearfott is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electronics design and development for complex electromechanical products used in aerospace and unmanned applications. You will own the electronics portion from requirements to production, working with a multidisciplinary team.

The role emphasizes analog/digital design, schematic work, circuit simulations, and hands-on debugging, with travel as needed and on-site collaboration at our Black Mountain facility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• 4+ years of professional electrical/electronics product development experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing analog and/or digital electronic circuits.
• Hands-on experience developing and interpreting electrical schematics.
• Experience with circuit analysis and simulation using PSpice, LTspice, SPICE, MATLAB, Mathcad, or similar tools.
• Experience with PCB/PCBA development, including board layout, fabrication, assembly, and manufacturing processes.
• Hands-on experience with electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, power analyzers, or similar laboratory instrumentation.
• Demonstrated ability to travel occasionally; must be a U.S. Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute electrical/electronic design activities throughout the product development lifecycle, from requirements and concept development through production release and ongoing product support.
• Develop electronic architectures and detailed hardware designs for complex electromechanical products and systems.
• Design and analyze analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, interface, and control circuitry.
• Develop and review electrical schematics, component selections, circuit card assemblies, and PCB designs.
• Perform circuit analysis and simulation using PSpice, LTspice, MATLAB, Mathcad, or equivalent engineering tools.
• Develop prototypes and perform board bring-up, bench testing, troubleshooting, and design verification.
• Apply practical design-for-manufacturing considerations to ensure designs are reliable, producible, testable, and cost effective.
• Develop and execute engineering test plans and support product verification and qualification activities.
• Lead technical problem solving, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions during development and production.
• Support transition of new designs into manufacturing and provide technical support to production as required.

Skills

Analog and digital circuit design

Schematic development

Circuit analysis and simulation

PCB/PCBA development

Hands-on hardware debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel ability

U.S. Citizenship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline

Tools

PSpice

LTspice

SPICE

MATLAB

Mathcad

Altium

Cadence

Mentor Graphics

Job description

Kearfott is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead electronics design and development for complex electromechanical products used in aerospace and unmanned applications. You will own the electronics portion from requirements to production, working with a multidisciplinary team.

The role emphasizes analog/digital design, schematic work, circuit simulations, and hands-on debugging, with travel as needed and on-site collaboration at our Black Mountain facility.