Staff Electrical Engineer

Role overview

Lead mixed-signal electrical design for advanced antenna and communications hardware, with ownership spanning architecture, circuit design, PCB layout, prototype bring-up, and verification. The work centers on the digital control, sensing, conversion, and power circuitry around an RF system, helping mature early laboratory hardware toward qualification and repeatable builds.

Responsibilities

- Define the mixed-signal electrical architecture, interfaces, and boundaries between digital electronics and RF subsystems. - Design control, sensing, data-conversion, and power circuitry using microcontrollers and/or FPGAs, including circuitry that drives and monitors plasma elements. - Own board development from schematic capture through layout, considering signal and power integrity, thermal limits, test access, and sources of noise or electrical stress. - Lead design reviews and mentor engineers while making technical trade-offs across operating modes and product variants. - Bring up prototypes and debug issues with laboratory instruments; plan tests and compare measured results with circuit, thermal, plasma, and RF expectations. - Help establish fabrication, assembly, verification, and configuration practices, coordinating with mechanical, software, systems, and external hardware partners.

Requirements

- Degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience; typically 6–10+ years demonstrating ownership of complex mixed-signal systems. - Experience designing, laying out, building, and debugging PCBs using a professional tool such as Altium Designer, KiCad, or OrCAD. - Strong grounding in mixed-signal and digital design, including MCU or FPGA interfaces, converters, serial buses, power electronics, controls, instrumentation, and signal and power integrity. - Practical ability to use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, power supplies, electronic loads, and probes safely. - Experience leading design reviews, mentoring engineers, communicating technical risk, and making decisions with incomplete information. - Ability to meet requirements for work on U.S. government and national-security programs.

Nice to have

The source indicates that RF power amplifiers, impedance matching, and high-voltage systems are preferred areas of familiarity.

Benefits and work setup

The source describes employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and family, 14 weeks of paid parental leave, unlimited PTO subject to management approval, professional development opportunities, and optional retirement, flexible spending, and equity programs.