Staff Digital Hardware Engineer (Aerospace)

Chaos, Inc.; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits paid by company

401k with company match

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Relocation assistance

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics for aerospace and military applications. You will drive requirements, architecture trades, schematic design, layout guidance, and board bring-up across FPGA, software, RF, power, and manufacturing teams.

The ideal candidate has hands-on board design experience, strong signal and power integrity judgment, and the ability to coordinate complex tasks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management.
• Experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with hardware integration and lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and protocol or signal measurement equipment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, applicable aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices.
• Design PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries.
• Contribute to digital hardware architectures, detailed schematics, stack-up recommendations, routing constraints, and design analyses for mission-critical electronics.
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis for high-speed interfaces, memory buses, clocks, power distribution networks, and mixed-signal board environments.
• Define PCB layout constraints for controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, shielding, decoupling, and isolation of sensitive circuits.
• Collaborate with FPGA, embedded software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineers to ensure digital hardware integrates cleanly within larger systems.
• Plan and support board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification testing, and production transition activities.
• Generate and maintain schematics, analysis reports, design documentation, BOMs, interface documentation, and test plans.
• Serve as a technical interface with vendors, suppliers, and customers for digital hardware design topics.

Skills

Digital circuit design

Signal integrity

Power integrity

FPGA design

Board bring-up

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering (preferred)

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power supplies

Lab test equipment

Job description

CHAOS Industries in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics for aerospace and military applications. You will drive requirements, architecture trades, schematic design, layout guidance, and board bring-up across FPGA, software, RF, power, and manufacturing teams.

The ideal candidate has hands-on board design experience, strong signal and power integrity judgment, and the ability to coordinate complex tasks