Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

The role

This person will provide senior technical leadership for high-reliability digital electronics used in aerospace and military applications. They will lead the design, analysis, and verification of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems.

What you will do

• Lead the design and technical execution of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems
• Lead design and review of complex PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries
• Lead digital hardware architecture trades
• Develop and promote design practices for digital board design, stack-up definition, layout constraints, SI/PI analysis, bring-up, and verification
• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary technical issues involving digital hardware, FPGA/software interfaces, RF coexistence, power distribution, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and mechanical packaging
• Define and review PCB layout strategy
• Serve as a senior technical interface with customers, vendors, suppliers, and internal program leadership
• Mentor engineers and coordinate technical activities across multiple teams
• Lead or provide technical direction for hardware integration, verification, qualification testing, production transition, failure analysis, and field support

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 12+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership of complex high-speed digital hardware designs
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management
• Extensive experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces
• Experience defining or reviewing PCB layout strategy, design constraints, and analysis criteria for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and high-reliability electronics
• Hands-on experience leading or supporting board bring-up, system integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification, production transition, and failure analysis activities
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution and mentor engineers through ambiguous, cross-disciplinary hardware challenges
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Advanced Degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline
• Experience with Avionics platforms
• Experience using Altium Designer
• Expertise with signal integrity and/or power integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces in high-reliability systems
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and aerospace standards such as RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
• Experience developing design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or review processes for engineering teams
• Experience designing for manufacturability and leading transition from prototype hardware to production

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k (+ 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

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 is a defense company founded in 2022 that uses Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) to empower warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles.