Director, Electrical Engineering

The role

You will build and lead an electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics. You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept through field deployment and sustainment.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of electrical engineers
• Define hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices
• Plan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs
• Lead development of electronic system architectures and trade studies
• Provide technical leadership across digital, analog, mixed-signal, power conversion, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC
• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving hardware, FPGA, embedded software, RF, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing, and test
• Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to production, failure investigation, and field support
• Serve as senior electrical engineering representative to leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners
• Personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 15+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for complex, high-reliability electronics
• Background developing electronics for aerospace, defense, radar, electronic warfare, missile, space, or similarly demanding applications
• Deep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline, with sufficient breadth to lead high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal, and power electronics development
• Experience developing complex electronic systems incorporating FPGAs, processors, memory, data converters, high-speed interfaces, power conversion, and analog signal chains
• Strong knowledge of PCB design, component selection, signal and power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, derating, and design for manufacturability
• Experience leading hardware from architecture and detailed design through bring-up, integration, qualification, production, and failure investigation
• Familiarity with applicable aerospace standards, including MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1275, and RTCA/DO-160
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
• Experience building or rapidly scaling an electrical engineering team
• Experience developing avionics or RF sensor electronics
• Experience with signal-integrity or power-integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent
• Experience with interfaces such as DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, and LVDS in high-reliability systems
• Experience establishing reusable architectures, design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or technical review processes
• Experience managing external design partners, PCB fabrication and assembly suppliers, or other critical electronics suppliers

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• No meeting Fridays
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon)

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach

About the company

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles and focuses on modern defense with a multi-product portfolio.