Electrical Engineer (Sustaining/Validation)
Electrical engineer focused on sustaining drone products through failure analysis, validation of components and subsystems, root cause investigations, and driving design changes for reliability and manufacturability. Requires strong expertise in circuit design, testing, and lab instrumentation.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Resolve issues by owning and leading deep, cross-functional analysis on complex system-level problems
- Elevate quality through technical validation of components and subsystems
- Perform electrical failure analysis (FA) on customer returns, RMAs, and field failures to identify design, component, or process issues
- Own and execute design changes to improve reliability, manufacturability
- Drive electrical component and PCB changes and validation to address issues or supply chain changes
Requirements
- Strong electrical validation and test experience
- Able to root cause PCBA and system level failures
- Deep understanding of analog and digital circuit design, power management, and mixed-signal systems
- Proficiency in schematic design
- Familiarity with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power analyzers, power supplies, bash script, etc)
- History of collecting, collating, and analyzing field data
- Strong ownership mindset and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with high speed camera interfaces (MIPI CSI, D-PHY and C-PHY)
Compensation
- Annual base salary range: $127,000 - $180,000
- Equity in the form of stock options
- Comprehensive benefits: group health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, 401K
Skills
Analog Circuit Design, Digital Circuit Design, Power Management, Mixed-Signal Systems, Schematic Design, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Power Analyzers, Electrical Failure Analysis, Pcb Design, Mipi Csi, D-Phy, C-Phy, Bash Scripting
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