Senior Electrical Engineer – Flight‑Critical PCBAs

Cantos Ventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Heaviside Industries, headquartered in Los Angeles, designs multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied forces. This role focuses on PCBAs for navigation, sensors and power systems, with close collaboration to firmware and mechanical teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of mission-critical hardware experience, strong analog/digital/power design skills, and proficiency with Altium/Cadence/KiCad. ITAR and U.S. person compliance are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing PCBAs that shipped for flight/mission-critical hardware.
• Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, power and high-speed design.
• Hands-on board bring-up with test equipment; ability to read firmware.
• U.S. Person per ITAR compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design, lay out and bring up mission-grade PCBAs—Navigation computers, sensor boards, power systems, RF front-end and seeker electronics.
• Own schematic capture and DFM-aware PCB layout for high-density designs.
• Drive power architecture: battery and ordnance-grade power, DC-DC conversion and thermal management.
• Design for signal integrity and EMI/EMC; partner with mechanical for grounding and shielding.
• Specify, integrate and bring up sensors and modules (IMUs, GNSS, baro, mag, RF transceivers).
• Lead board bring-up alongside firmware and embedded software.
• Run qualification and environmental testing (thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC, HALT).
• Own obsolescence and BOM strategy in relation to manufacturing.

Skills

PCB Design

Schematic Capture

Power Electronics

Signal Integrity

EMI/EMC

Flight Hardware

FW Collaboration

Education

B.S./M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence Allegro

KiCad

Job description

Heaviside Industries, headquartered in Los Angeles, designs multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied forces. This role focuses on PCBAs for navigation, sensors and power systems, with close collaboration to firmware and mechanical teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of mission-critical hardware experience, strong analog/digital/power design skills, and proficiency with Altium/Cadence/KiCad. ITAR and U.S. person compliance are required.