Staff Electrical Engineer

CHAOS Industries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid by the company

401(k) with 50% company match

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Casual dress code

Job summary

CHAOS Industries seeks a STAFF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER in El Segundo, CA, specializing in digital circuit design and signal integrity for aerospace and military applications.

Responsibilities include leading design efforts, performing rigorous analysis, and ensuring integration with other engineering teams. Applicants must have a Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience.

Offering a competitive salary range of $150k-210k, along with health benefits and flexible perks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with hardware integration.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of high-speed digital circuit cards.
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering disciplines.

Skills

Digital design fundamentals

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Controlled impedance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power supplies

Job description

Role Overview

STAFF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER role focusing on digital circuit design and signal integrity for aerospace and military applications. Lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics across the product lifecycle, from requirements through production support.

Full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA.

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 PCBA 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.

Minimum Requirements

• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Preferred Requirements

• Advanced Degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• Experience with Avionics platforms.
• Experience with mixed RF, analog, power, and digital electronics in tightly integrated aerospace or defense hardware.
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and aerospace standards such as RTCA/DO‑160, MIL‑STD‑461, MIL‑STD‑810, and MIL‑STD‑1275.
• Experience performing design margin analysis, derating analysis, tolerance analysis, or worst‑case circuit analysis.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and transition to production.

Benefits

• Health benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company.
• Additional benefits: 401(k) with 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more.
• Perks: Free daily lunch, No meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, casual dress code.
• Compensation: Competitive base salaries, generous pre‑IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and annual bonuses.
• Team growth: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices.

Compensation Range

Salary range: $150k-210k base, with additional earnings from bonus, equity, and benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As set forth in CHAOS Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.