Electrical Engineer

Role Overview

STAFF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER role focusing on digital circuit design and signal integrity for aerospace and military applications. Lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics across the product lifecycle, from requirements through production support.

Full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA.

• Lead design of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, applicable aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices.
• Design PCBA involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries.
• Contribute to digital hardware architectures, detailed schematics, stack‑up recommendations, routing constraints, and design analyses for mission‑critical electronics.
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis for high‑speed interfaces, memory buses, clocks, power distribution networks, and mixed‑signal board environments.
• Define PCB layout constraints for controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, shielding, decoupling, and isolation of sensitive circuits.
• Collaborate with FPGA, embedded software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineers to ensure digital hardware integrates cleanly within larger systems.
• Plan and support board bring‑up, integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification testing, and production transition activities.
• Generate and maintain schematics, analysis reports, design documentation, BOMs, interface documentation, and test plans.
• Serve as a technical interface with vendors, suppliers, and customers for digital hardware design topics.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return‑path management.
• Experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces.
• Hands‑on experience with hardware integration and lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and protocol or signal measurement equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems with a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

• Advanced Degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• Experience with Avionics platforms.
• Experience with mixed RF, analog, power, and digital electronics in tightly integrated aerospace or defense hardware.
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD
  204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• 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 performing design margin analysis, derating analysis, tolerance analysis, or worst‑case circuit analysis.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and transition to production.

• Health benefits:
  
  Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company.
• Additional benefits: 401(k) with 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more.
• Perks:
  Free daily lunch, No meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, casual dress code.
• Compensation:
  Competitive base salaries, generous pre‑IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and annual bonuses.
• Team growth: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices.

Salary range: $150k-210k base, with additional earnings from bonus, equity, and benefits.

As set forth in CHAOS Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.