Senior Electrical Engineer, Flight Hardware & Power Systems

Heaviside Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied forces. All engineering and manufacturing are in-house in Los Angeles, CA and Oslo, Norway.

The role owns the electrical architecture of flight vehicles, designs high-density PCBAs, drives power systems, and leads EMI/EMC and environmental qualification efforts. We seek 10+ years of defense/aerospace experience, end-to-end PCB design ownership, and Proficiency in Altium. ITAR U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of electrical engineering experience on defense or aerospace flight hardware.
• End-to-end ownership of complex PCBAs: architecture, schematic, layout direction, bring-up, and qualification.
• Proficiency in Altium Designer or equivalent EDA tools.
• Experience in power electronics, mixed-signal design, high-speed digital design, or motor drive electronics.
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC design practice and MIL-STD-461 qualification.
• Strong lab skills: instrumentation, debug methodology, and disciplined failure analysis on flight hardware.
• [BONUS] Munition/missile electronics, safe-arm, fuzing-adjacent, or telemetry systems.
• [BONUS] RF front ends or SDR-based payloads with vehicle electronics.
• U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62).

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture of flight vehicles: power distribution, mission compute, sensing, actuation, and RF payload integration.
• Design complex, high-density PCBAs — mixed-signal, power electronics, and high-speed digital.
• Lead power system design for battery-powered munitions under size, weight, and launch-shock constraints.
• Design vehicle harnessing and interconnect for MIL-STD-810 environments.
• Drive EMI/EMC design and qualification to MIL-STD-461 with the RF team.
• Own board bring-up, integration, and root-cause failure analysis through qualification and flight tests.
• Release production-ready electrical docs and mentor the EE team.

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied forces. All engineering and manufacturing are in-house in Los Angeles, CA and Oslo, Norway.

The role owns the electrical architecture of flight vehicles, designs high-density PCBAs, drives power systems, and leads EMI/EMC and environmental qualification efforts. We seek 10+ years of defense/aerospace experience, end-to-end PCB design ownership, and Proficiency in Altium. ITAR U.S.