Hardware Design Specialist, High Voltage

Avionics Specialist - High Voltage

We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.

An Avionics Specialist - High Voltage supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Power Systems team as they design and verify all X-BAT high voltage power systems. This includes the generator, battery, and all power converters.

What you'll do:

1. Set up and execute test campaigns for custom circuits and sub-systems such as verifying logic levels, voltage rails, and basic circuit functions
2. Perform benchtop PCBA testing and debugging
3. Support engineers through environmental qualification that includes temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity, etc.
4. Design, verify, and deploy simple PCBAs, fixtures, and harnesses
5. Assist with the avionics lab design and buildout

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years working around high voltage, high power systems. Such as 270V and higher
• Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
• Experience performing PCBA and harness rework
• Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics
• Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…
• Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results
• Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

$36 - $54 a year

Full-time regular employee offer package:

Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package:

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.

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