Senior Electrical Engineer: Lead UAS Systems (9/80)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K matching

9/80 schedule

Job summary

AeroVironment is seeking a Sr. Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and evaluate electronic parts and systems for advanced aerospace hardware.

You will select components based on specifications and reliability, and guide cross-functional teams from requirements through production. The role emphasizes systems engineering in small unmanned aircraft vehicles, with responsibilities spanning design review, integration, test planning, and customer communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering is required or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 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, PCBA and system test.
• 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 I&T 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Systems engineering

Requirements tracing

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

AeroVironment is seeking a Sr. Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and evaluate electronic parts and systems for advanced aerospace hardware.

You will select components based on specifications and reliability, and guide cross-functional teams from requirements through production. The role emphasizes systems engineering in small unmanned aircraft vehicles, with responsibilities spanning design review, integration, test planning, and customer communications.