Senior Staff Digital Hardware Engineer – High‑Speed Avionics

Chaos Industries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 211,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer in El Segundo, CA, to lead high-speed digital hardware design for aerospace/military applications. You will guide digital circuit card/subsystem development across the full lifecycle, from architecture through field sustainment.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in timing, SI/PI, FPGAs, processors, and high-reliability electronics, and can mentor cross-disciplinary teams while navigating complex challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Demonstrated technical leadership of complex high-speed digital hardware designs.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, SI/PI, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management.
• Extensive experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level interfaces.
• Experience defining or reviewing PCB layout strategy, design constraints, and analysis criteria for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and high-reliability electronics.
• Hands-on experience leading or supporting board bring-up, system integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification, production transition, and failure analysis activities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution and mentor engineers through ambiguous, cross-disciplinary hardware challenges.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and technical execution of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, applicable aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices
• Lead design and review of complex PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries
• Lead digital hardware architecture trades and define design approaches that balance system performance, schedule, manufacturability, reliability, and qualification requirements
• Develop and promote design practices for digital board design, stack-up definition, layout constraints, SI/PI analysis, bring-up, and verification within assigned product areas
• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary technical issues involving digital hardware, FPGA/software interfaces, RF coexistence, power distribution, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and mechanical packaging
• Define and review PCB layout strategy for controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, shielding, decoupling, power distribution networks, and isolation of sensitive circuits
• Serve as a senior technical interface with customers, vendors, suppliers, and internal program leadership for digital hardware topics
• Mentor engineers and coordinate technical activities across digital, FPGA, embedded software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams
• Lead or provide technical direction for hardware integration, verification, qualification testing, production transition, failure analysis, and field support

Skills

Technical leadership

Digital circuit design

Signal integrity

Power integrity

FPGA/Processor interfaces

PCB layout review

Cross-functional mentoring

Security clearance eligible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

HyperLynx

Sigrity

ADS

Ansys SIwave

Job description

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer in El Segundo, CA, to lead high-speed digital hardware design for aerospace/military applications. You will guide digital circuit card/subsystem development across the full lifecycle, from architecture through field sustainment.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in timing, SI/PI, FPGAs, processors, and high-reliability electronics, and can mentor cross-disciplinary teams while navigating complex challenges.