Staff Electrical Engineer

Join CHAOS as a Staff Electrical Engineer, where you will lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics for aerospace and military applications. This role encompasses the full product lifecycle, from requirements definition and architecture trades to schematic design, layout guidance, analysis, board bring-up, verification, production support, and field testing of mission-critical systems. You will collaborate with various engineering teams and serve as a technical interface with vendors, suppliers, and customers.

• Lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics for aerospace and military applications, spanning the full product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure digital hardware integrates cleanly within larger systems, and plan and support board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification testing, and production transition activities.
• Generate and maintain schematics, analysis reports, design documentation, BOMs, interface documentation, and test plans, and serve as a technical interface with vendors, suppliers, and customers for digital hardware design topics.

• The ideal candidate is a digital circuit designer with strong hands-on board design experience, practical signal integrity and power integrity judgment, and the ability to coordinate complex technical tasks across FPGA, software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams with little supervision
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on complex technical problems with a high level of attention to detail
• Hands-on experience with hardware integration and lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and protocol or signal measurement equipment
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management
• Experience designing high-speed digital hardware
• Experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Advanced Degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline
• Experience with Avionics platforms
• Experience using Altium Designer
• Experience with mixed RF, analog, power, and digital electronics in tightly integrated aerospace or defense hardware
• Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and aerospace standards such as RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
• Experience designing for manufacturability and transition to production
• Experience performing design margin analysis, derating analysis, tolerance analysis, or worst-case circuit analysis