Senior Staff Electrical Engineer

Join CHAOS as a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer, where you will provide senior technical leadership for high-reliability digital electronics used in aerospace and military applications. You will lead the design and technical execution of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems, resolve complex cross-disciplinary technical issues, and serve as a senior technical interface with customers and internal program leadership. This role offers generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and comprehensive benefits.

Lead the design and technical execution of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, applicable aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and promote design practices for digital board design, stack-up definition, layout constraints, SI/PI analysis, bring-up, and verification within assigned product areas.
• Serve as a senior technical interface with customers, vendors, suppliers, and internal program leadership for digital hardware topics.
• The ideal candidate is an experienced digital hardware technical leader with deep high-speed board design, signal integrity, and power integrity expertise; a track record of leading complex designs and influencing technical direction; and the ability to guide cross-disciplinary teams through ambiguous, high-consequence hardware challenges
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution and mentor engineers through ambiguous, cross-disciplinary hardware challenges
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Hands-on experience leading or supporting board bring-up, system integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification, production transition, and failure analysis activities
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership of complex high-speed digital hardware designs
• Extensive experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces
• Experience defining or reviewing PCB layout strategy, design constraints, and analysis criteria for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and high-reliability electronics
• Advanced Degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline

Experience using Altium Designer

• Expertise with signal integrity and/or power integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent
• Experience developing design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or review processes for engineering teams
• Experience designing for manufacturability and leading transition from prototype hardware to production

Preferred

Experience with Avionics platforms

• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces in high-reliability systems
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and aerospace standards such as RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275

Pay

USD 211,000 - 264,000