Electrical Engineer, Circuit Design & Power Electronics

Job description:

Electrical Engineer, Circuit Design & Power Electronics Los Angeles, CA | Full-Time | 100% On-Site | $150K-$220K base + early-employee equity

Join a fast-moving, venture-backed defense technology startup building high-performance flight hardware. You will own the power and actuator drive electronics that fly on the company's vehicles. Avionics sits on the critical path for every flight test, so your speed directly sets the pace of the program.

What You'll DoDesign power distribution and conversion systems, including battery management, power regulation, and protection circuits

Own actuator drive electronics for the fin control actuation system: power stage, current sensing, motor commutation, position-interface front end, and motor-bus partitioning

Create schematics, PCB layouts, and bring-up procedures for mission-critical analog and digital avionics

Lead EMI/EMC design and validation, including power integrity, grounding, and mitigation strategies

Partner with embedded software, systems, and controls engineers to integrate and tune hardware on the bench

Build test infrastructure and validation procedures, and handle debugging, integration, and environmental testing

Help define scalable electrical architecture standards for high-rate manufacturing

Tech Stack Altium/KiCad, schematic capture, SPICE, power electronics, BLDC/PMSM motor drives, gate drivers, current sensing, BMS, EMI/EMC testing, oscilloscopes and lab equipment, FPGA interfaces, embedded systems

Work Setup Fully on-site in Los Angeles, CA. Remote work is not available. Monthly weekend travel for test events and supplier visits.

Qualifications:

Must-Haves5+ years in circuit design and power electronics

Power systems experience in demanding hardware environments (aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, or similar)
Strong PCB design and layout with a system-level EMC approach (grounding, shielding, filtering, signal and power integrity)
Hands-on lab experience debugging hardware and bringing up boards

Proven ability to take designs from schematic to layout to integration and test Experience in a rapid development, 0-to-1 environment

Daily use of frontier AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in your workflowBS in Electrical Engineering or related fieldU.S. Citizen or Green Card holder (no visa sponsorship)
Able to work fully on-site in Los Angeles, plus monthly weekend travel

Nice-to-Haves Motor drive design (BLDC/PMSM power stages, gate driver selection, current sensing topologies, EMI mitigation on high-current buses)
FPGA interface experience

Qualifying hardware to DO-160 or similar environmental standards

Background in defense, automotive/racing, robotics, EV, or high-performance mobility Why is This a Great Opportunity:
Real impact:
Ground floor at a well-funded startup tackling a genuine national security problem

Visible work:
Your hardware flies every couple of weeks

No waiting:
Avionics drives the schedule, so your velocity drives the company

Ownership:
Engineers own design, build, and test end to end with minimal bureaucracy

Strong comp:
Competitive base ($150K-$220K) plus meaningful early-employee equity

Growth:
Team is scaling quickly, with significant hiring planned over the next 6-12 months

Salary Type :
Annual Salary Salary Min : $ 150000

Salary Max : $ 220000

Currency Type : USDNigel