About The Project: We're building a small, safety-critical kinetic munition delivered by an FPV-class airframe. The compute side is an electro-mechanical safe and arm device (EMSAD).
What You'll Do
- Architect and design the main EMSAD board and auxiliary boards.
- Handle schematic design and multilayer PCB layout.
- Define hardware safety architecture with redundant interlocks and fail-safe defaults.
- Build and run bring-up benches and first-article validation.
- Collaborate closely with firmware engineers on drivers and timing.
- Drive environmental qualification: thermal, vibration, EMC, ESD, drop testing.
- Own BOM management, DFM/DFT, and factory tester development.
Required
- 5+ years of professional electronics design experience.
- Strong knowledge of low-power MCUs, mixed-signal systems, power supplies, sensors, and RF-adjacent layout.
- PCB layout expertise in tools such as Altium, KiCad, or Cadence.
- Hands-on lab debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and soldering tools.
- Experience debugging complex hardware issues including EMC and brown-out edge cases.
- Strong written and verbal English communication.
Nice to have
- Safety-critical or fail-safe hardware design experience.
- Experience with S&A or fuzing electronics.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 / MIL-STD-461 testing.
- FPV / small-UAV electronics experience.
- DFT for high-mix low-volume manufacturing