Electrical Engineer

Cambridge, MA, Remote. Posted 3 months ago

The role

This person will support the design and development of air vehicles. They will work on electrical architecture, PCB design, and RF integration for autonomous systems.

What you will do

Select components based on mission, electrical, thermal, and mechanical needs.
Design electrical board assemblies.
Perform board layout, sourcing and purchasing, programming, testing, and debug.
Perform RF link budget and bandwidth analyses based on mission needs.
Select components and design RF chain.
Implement encoding and compression algorithms.

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
3+ years of relevant experience in electrical design, prototyping, and manufacturing.
Experience with Altium.
Working knowledge of RF hardware: radios, software-defined radios, antennas, amplifiers, etc.
Experience with UAS-relevant radios - RFD, Microhard, Silvus, or similar.
Willingness to perform field testing of RF components

Nice to have

Experience with SDR
Experience with compression algorithms and encoding methods
Experience with GNSS
Experience with FPGAs
Experience with radars
Experience with optical sensors
Comfort with Jira

Benefits

Competitive salary
Meaningful equity
Generous benefits package

Before you apply

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
May be subject to a government security clearance process

About the company

Tycho.AI builds autonomy systems operating in GPS- and comms-denied environments. The team is rethinking autonomy using modular AI, advanced visual-inertial sensing, and real-time edge-compute.