Staff Electrical Engineer — Avionics & Power Hardware

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grant

Job summary

Firestorm is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to develop critical electrical hardware for aircraft, including power distribution, power conversion, and battery charging. You will tackle high-performance processing, high-speed networking, and overall system integration.

You will work hands-on across circuit development, trade studies, and hardware debugging, ensuring robust, manufacturable designs for aerospace-grade applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing and releasing electrical hardware for products used in real-world settings.
• Strong fundamentals across analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, sensing, and communication circuits.
• Proficiency with EDA tools such as Altium Designer and Cadence Allegro/OrCAD.

Responsibilities

• Own full hardware development lifecycle from concept through production.
• Design embedded control electronics including circuit schematics, PCB layout, board bring-up, and system integration.
• Develop space‑, weight‑, and thermally constrained PCBs (HDI, flex, rigid‑flex).
• Generate engineering documentation: ECOs, fabrication drawings, BOMs, release packages.
• Perform root-cause analysis to improve performance, manufacturability, or reliability.
• Interface with vendors to source components and ensure timely delivery.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test teams to deliver products.
• Support project timelines and report progress to senior management.

Skills

Power electronics

System-level design

Root-cause analysis

Clear documentation

Circuit debugging

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or related technical field

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence Allegro/OrCAD

Job description

Firestorm is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to develop critical electrical hardware for aircraft, including power distribution, power conversion, and battery charging. You will tackle high-performance processing, high-speed networking, and overall system integration.

You will work hands-on across circuit development, trade studies, and hardware debugging, ensuring robust, manufacturable designs for aerospace-grade applications.