Staff Electrical Engineer

In this role, you’ll own the high-level electrical system design of a major product such as a drone, gimbal or ground control station from conception through sustaining, working closely with the other discipline lead engineers and the product manager to turn product requirements into a system architecture that achieves the product vision with the best compromise of development time, cost and design complexity. Good working knowledge of all key drone technologies, with expert-level experience in at least three (e.g., brushless DC motor drive, inertial sensors, GPS, lithium-ion batteries, camera interfaces, radio modules).

Eleven Recruiting is searching for a Staff Electrical Engineer for a growing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) manufacturer in the greater Los Angeles area. In this role, you’ll own the high-level electrical system design of a major product such as a drone, gimbal or ground control station from conception through sustaining, working closely with the other discipline lead engineers and the product manager to turn product requirements into a system architecture that achieves the product vision with the best compromise of development time, cost and design complexity. You’ll also direct a small team of electrical engineers focused on specific subsystems, integrating their designs with your own to build a robust system.
  Responsibilities: 

• Work with a cross-disciplinary team to break down product requirements into clear, testable and traceable formal system and subsystem engineering requirements.
• Estimate the level of effort in engineering hours and total duration of all tasks for a project to support the project manager’s schedule.
• Perform trade studies to identify and downselect critical system components and technologies.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert in at least three technologies critical to UAVs.
• Manage a system-level electrical design with application processors and multiple microcontrollers.
• Lead a small team of engineers and integrate their designs into a working system.
• Develop designs that pass electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulatory requirements (e.g., MIL-STD-461G, FCC, CE).
• Implement design-for-manufacturing (DFM) and design-for-test (DFT) best practices and feedback.
• Write and execute Engineering Verification Test (EVT) procedures.
• Work with the in-house manufacturing team and contract manufacturers to define in-circuit tests (ICT) and functional circuit tests (FCT).
• Direct and review PCB layout, and perform layout as needed, working with both internal and external layout resources.
• Lead design reviews of the project and sign off on design reviews for others.
• Maintain an accurate electrical bill of materials (BOM) in the product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• 11–15 years of relevant industry experience, preferably in electronics design, embedded systems or aerospace/UAS sectors.
• In-depth knowledge of high-density interconnect (HDI) PCB technology.
• Proficiency in defining a PCB stackup that minimizes cost while still achieving excellent EMI/EMC performance.
• Detailed understanding of common high-speed serial communication busses (e.g., USB2/3, MIPI D-PHY, MIPI M-PHY, PCIe, Ethernet).
• Thorough understanding of Power Integrity (PI) and Signal Integrity (SI) design principles, and a solid understanding of electrical signal propagation.
• Proficiency with a SPICE-based circuit simulator or a signal/power integrity design tool (SI/PI).
• Good working knowledge of all key drone technologies, with expert-level experience in at least three (e.g., brushless DC motor drive, inertial sensors, GPS, lithium-ion batteries, camera interfaces, radio modules).
• Proficiency in use of laboratory test equipment.
• Proficiency in Altium Designer.
• Working understanding of Agile and Waterfall design and development methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills in writing reports and corresponding with manufacturers.

Salary: $200,000 - $210,000

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