Staff Electrical Engineer

The role

You will lead mixed-signal electrical design for electronics enabling plasma-enhanced antenna and communications systems. You will own designs from schematic capture through PCB layout and run integration and test to verify performance.

What you will do

• Architect a new kind of radio front end.
• Define the mixed-signal backbone including digital control, embedded interfaces, sensing, data conversion, and power.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers.
• Design microcontroller- and FPGA-based control, data converters, precision sensing, and drive and bias circuitry.
• Own boards from schematic capture through PCB layout.
• Bring up and debug prototypes with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and automated data capture.
• Plan and execute integration and test campaigns.
• Define fabrication and assembly approach, prototype build sequencing, design verification, and configuration control.
• Design for EMC and defense qualification.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and directly relevant experience.
• 6–10+ years of relevant engineering work demonstrating technical ownership of complex, cross-disciplinary mixed-signal systems.
• Expertise designing, laying out, building, and debugging printed circuit boards.
• Proficiency in a professional schematic and PCB environment such as Altium Designer, KiCad, or OrCAD.
• Strong fundamentals in mixed-signal and digital design including microcontroller or FPGA interfaces, data converters, serial buses, power electronics, controls, instrumentation, signal integrity, and
• Hands-on proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, power supplies, electronic loads, and probes.
• Safe laboratory practices.
• Ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate technical risk, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Ability to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with RF power amplifiers, impedance matching, high-voltage supplies, pulsed-power circuits, plasma systems, or electrically small antennas.
• Experience with FPGA or embedded firmware development, or close collaboration with firmware engineers on hardware/software bring-up.
• Familiarity with electromagnetic compatibility practices and standards such as MIL-STD-461.
• Experience with embedded control, data acquisition, automation scripts, or software-defined radio interfaces.
• Experience supporting design verification, environmental qualification, SBIR/STTR programs, or defense product development.
• Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement.
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.

Before you apply

• Ability to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs.

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Dash 2 Dynamics (D2) is a company within the firm building advanced communications systems powered by plasma physics, radio-frequency engineering, and novel antenna architectures.