Electrical Architect

The role

The Electrical Architect will define and own the electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and supporting airborne and spaceborne systems. This role guides interfaces, power, signal integrity, design decisions, and technical reviews across the payload electronics stack.

What you will do

• Define the end-to-end electrical architecture and maintain clear interfaces across payload subsystems.
• Lead trade studies and design decisions involving power distribution, signal integrity, data paths, grounding, and reliability.
• Establish design requirements, budgets, review criteria, and verification approaches with systems and engineering teams.
• Provide technical guidance through schematic design, board development, bring-up, integration, and test.
• Identify cross-system risks early and drive them to clear owners, decisions, and evidence-based closure.

Required qualifications

• Experience architecting complex electrical systems that combine multiple boards, sensors, processors, power domains, and interfaces.
• Strong fundamentals in electronics, power, high-speed or sensitive signal paths, grounding, and hardware integration.
• Ability to lead technical reviews and communicate architectural tradeoffs across disciplines.
• Hands-on judgment informed by hardware development, bring-up, test, and failure investigation.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace, defense, imaging, sensing, avionics, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Experience designing for constrained power, mass, thermal, electromagnetic, or environmental conditions.
• Familiarity with qualification, production transition, supplier coordination, and configuration control.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with U.S. expo

About the company

Matter is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense.