Electronics Engineer

Powerus is building a next-generation American autonomous systems platform designed to move, protect, and sustain critical assets in high-consequence environments. The company combines advanced autonomy, manufacturing capability, operational expertise, and strategic acquisitions to support defense, national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial operations globally.

Our mission is to deliver resilient autonomous technologies that strengthen national security, improve operational safety, and expand the capabilities of organizations operating in complex environments.

An autonomous aircraft is a stack of electronics that has to survive being thrown around in the cold at altitude and still be buildable a thousand times over. Between the architecture on a whiteboard and the box that flies sits a large amount of unglamorous, decisive work: choosing the part that will still exist in two years, finding the noise coupling nobody predicted, and proving on a bench that the thing actually does what the requirement said.

This role lives in that gap. Powerus is scaling production of unmanned platforms across North Carolina and California, and we need engineers who are as comfortable with an oscilloscope as with a datasheet.

Powerus is hiring an Electronics Engineer to design, build, and validate electronic hardware for our unmanned platforms. You will work across analog and digital circuits - sensing, conditioning, power, and interfaces - take designs from concept through bring-up, and prove them on the bench and in the aircraft. You will own component selection, contribute to board design, write the tests that qualify your work, and stay involved through manufacturing so the design that ships is the design that was reviewed.

• Design analog and digital circuits for sensing, signal conditioning, power, and interface functions
• Capture schematics, contribute to board layout, and drive designs through review to release
• Bring up new hardware, characterize performance, and debug to root cause
• Select components against electrical requirements, lifecycle, availability, and NDAA and Blue UAS constraints
• Build test fixtures and write procedures that make a design's performance measurable and repeatable
• Characterize behavior across temperature, voltage, and load, and document the margins
• Investigate noise, EMI, grounding, and interference problems on integrated hardware
• Support integration with embedded software, mechanical packaging, and vehicle systems
• Produce and maintain schematics, BOMs, test records, and revision-controlled documentation
• Work with manufacturing and assembly partners on buildability, yield, and process feedback

• Must be located in the United States, within commuting distance of Rock Hill, SC, and able to work on-site
• Degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Solid grounding in analog and digital circuit design and the ability to reason about a circuit from its schematic
• Practical bench skill - instrumentation, measurement technique, soldering, and rework
• Experience taking a circuit from idea through a working, characterized prototype
• U.S. Person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)); this role involves access to ITAR- and EAR-controlled technical data

• Experience with UAV, aerospace, robotics, instrumentation, or other embedded hardware
• Familiarity with an ECAD tool such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or Ki Cad
• Exposure to sensor interfaces, data acquisition, or mixed-signal design
• Experience with EMI, grounding, and shielding on integrated systems
• Comfo…