Senior Electrical Engineer II, Design Assurance

The role

You will validate electronics for next generation airside and groundside platforms. This includes performing circuit analysis, hardware characterization, qualification testing, and designing test fixtures.

What you will do

• Perform worst-case circuit analysis and component derating from schematic through post-layout
• Bring up, characterize, and validate new circuit boards against requirements
• Perform signal and power integrity simulation and validate results on the bench
• Plan and execute qualification testing including HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and EMC pre-compliance
• Lead root-cause analysis on failures
• Design and build test fixtures, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) stations, and HALT/HASS setups
• Support design engineers with design-for-test (DFT) and design-for-reliability (DFR) input

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in electrical hardware engineering, with hands-on ownership of design verification, validation, or qualification of circuit boards
• Hands-on worst-case circuit analysis and component derating on production hardware
• Board bring-up, characterization, and validation experience, including writing test plans and reports
• Signal and power integrity simulation (HFSS, HyperLynx, SIwave, or similar)
• Bench validation using TDR, VNA, and high-speed oscilloscopes
• Qualification testing experience, including HALT/HASS and environmental testing (thermal, vibration) to MIL-STD-810 or equivalent standards
• Experience designing and building test fixtures, HIL stations, and automated test setups, including scripting in Python or similar
• Board-level design experience: schematics and PCBs you designed yourself
• Deep proficiency with bench instrumentation: oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, power analyzers, electronic loads, and environmental chambers
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field

Nice to have

• EMC/EMI pre-compliance testing (MIL-STD-461 or equivalent)
• High-speed interface compliance testing (PCIe, MIPI, USB, Ethernet)
• Experience taking hardware through a production ramp with a contract manufacturer, including production test development
• Background in UAV, aerospace, automotive, defense, or medical device hardware

About the company

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. They design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems.