Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Powerus is building autonomous systems for defense, national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial operations. The Electrical Design Engineer will own electrical design for unmanned platforms, including architecture, schematics, analysis, component selection, and manufacturing documentation, while collaborating with distributed engineering teams and supporting integration activities.
Responsibilities
- Develop electrical architecture and detailed design for power, avionics, sensing, and interface functions
- Capture schematics and drive designs through review, release, and revision control
- Perform design analysis - worst case, derating, thermal, power budget, and margin
- Select components against requirements, lifecycle, availability, and NDAA and Blue UAS constraints
- Produce complete design packages: drawings, interface definitions, BOMs, and build documentation
- Define wiring, harnessing, connector, and grounding schemes for vehicle integration
- Write test and acceptance procedures for the designs you own
- Support bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting on site during scheduled travel
- Work with fabrication and assembly vendors on design for manufacturing and process questions
- Collaborate asynchronously with distributed engineering through written design documentation and review
Skills
- Must be located in the United States and eligible to work on-site at Powerus facilities during travel
- Willing to travel periodically to Charlotte, NC and California for bring-up, integration, and reviews
- Degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience owning electrical designs from architecture through released documentation
- Strong written communication - remote design work lives or dies on the quality of the documentation
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and keep distributed collaborators current without prompting
- U.S. Person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)); this role involves access to ITAR- and EAR-controlled technical data
- Prior experience working effectively on hardware in a remote or distributed team
- Experience with UAV, aerospace, defense, or another physical product with real environmental demands
- Familiarity with an ECAD tool such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
- Exposure to power system design, avionics, or embedded hardware
- Experience producing manufacturing documentation packages that a factory built from without rework
- Comfort with simulation tools for circuit, thermal, or power analysis
Benefits
- Open to candidates anywhere in the United States, with design work performed remotely from the employee’s location.
- Remote design work with distributed engineering collaboration.
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