Electrical Engineer

Overview

Chariot Defense is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures a family of power products for the U.S. military and its allies. We believe that credible deterrence of armed conflict and winning if deterrence fails requires more than just the best drones, sensors, weapons, electronic warfare systems, and command & control capabilities. Those critical components will require sustained electric power in austere and resource-constrained environments.

Moreover, military units must be able to turn off the trucks and generators that generate this power to hide and survive. In other words, power generation must be decoupled from power consumption. Chariot Defense's products enable exactly this capability, allowing U.S. and allied militaries to be more lethal and survivable. We hope you will join us on this mission.

Chariot Defense is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Electronic Design Engineer to join our engineering team, reporting to the Head of Electrical Engineering. In this role, you will conceptualize, design, develop, and test advanced energy storage and power electronic systems. You will work across multidisciplinary engineering and design teams to ensure our systems meet stringent MIL-STD performance, reliability, and security requirements for deployment in demanding environments, performing critical missions.

• Design & Development:
  Create schematics, layouts, and circuit designs for low- and high-voltage power electronics systems coupled with advanced energy storage, management, and safety systems, optimizing for stable circuit dynamics, power efficiency, latency, electrical safety and system protection, and abuse loading cases, to name a few.
• Testing & Validation:
  Perform circuit simulations, bench testing, and system-level validation to ensure compliance with military and industry standards.
• System Integration:
  Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, software, and systems engineers to integrate electronics into cohesive and elegant products, carry out electrical and system integration, and manage tight coupling between electrical IO's and firmware behavior.
• Reliability Engineering:
  Apply design-for-reliability practices, including EMI/EMC mitigation, ruggedization for harsh environments, and thermal management.
• Documentation & Compliance:
  Generate technical reports, test plans, and ensure adherence to MIL-STD and other defense specifications.
• Lifecycle Support:
  Provide engineering support throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through field deployment and sustainment.

• Top-notch engineering intuition and first principles thinking toward designing complex products that function seamlessly for your customer, taking both an engineering/ technical, and product/ customer approach, to strike the optimal balance.
• Able to independently identify critical information or priority gaps and apply effort toward closing those gaps.
• Undaunted by imperfect, incomplete or absent datasets or information, and capable of making sound, comprehensive, and swift first-principled decisions to achieve a product end-state that meets and/or exceeds the need of the hour.
• Not satisfied by superficial explanations of a problem or "band-aid engineering"; seeks persistently to find the specific root cause through data-driven methods, and resolve failures or recurring issues, so they can be mitigated to prevent future such instances.
• Gratified by helping your peers succeed, building a robust team culture, and propagation deep camaraderie amongst your peers; seeks to break down information silos by collaborating rigorously with others to solve problems, share knowledge, and provide input.

Required
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• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or related degree.
• 3+ years of experience in end-to-end circuit design, component selection and specification, electrical architecture trade-offs, ASIL redundancy/ functional safety, embedded systems troubleshooting, and electronics testing.
• Proficiency with CAD tools (preferred, Altium), simulation software (preferred, MATLAB/Simulink/Spice)
• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, function…