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Salary: USD 187,000 - 315,000 / annual
Neros Technologies is a defense technology company focused on designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems (drones) for military applications. The company operates at startup speed with a culture emphasizing rapid iteration, hands-on execution, and closing the gap between design and deployment.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer II, Design Assurance, you will be responsible for validating the electronics in next-generation airside and groundside drone platforms. Your work will span the full lifecycle of hardware validation: from circuit analysis and board bring-up through qualification testing and production support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Performing worst-case circuit analysis and component derating from schematic through post-layout, correlating analysis with bench measurements and working with design engineers to close findings before production release
- Bringing up, characterizing, and validating new circuit boards against requirements, including authoring comprehensive test plans, procedures, and reports
- Conducting signal and power integrity simulation (HFSS, HyperLynx, SIwave, or equivalent) and validating results on the bench using TDR, VNA, and high-speed oscilloscopes
- Planning and executing qualification testing including HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and EMC pre-compliance testing; leading root-cause analysis on failures
- Designing and building test fixtures, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) stations, and HALT/HASS setups with associated automation and data acquisition
- Supporting design engineers during product development with design-for-test (DFT) and design-for-reliability (DFR) guidance
You will work directly with design engineers during product development to ensure findings are incorporated before production, operating in a fast-paced environment with extreme ownership expectations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of hands-on electrical hardware engineering experience, with direct ownership of design verification, validation, or qualification of circuit boards
- Demonstrated expertise in worst-case circuit analysis and component derating on production hardware, from schematic-level analysis through post-layout checks with bench correlation
- Proven board bring-up, characterization, and validation experience, including writing test plans and reports
- Proficiency with signal and power integrity simulation tools (HFSS, HyperLynx, SIwave, or similar) and bench validation using TDR, VNA, and high-speed oscilloscopes
- Qualification testing experience including HALT/HASS and environmental testing (thermal, vibration) to MIL-STD-810 or equivalent standards
- Experience designing and building test fixtures, HIL stations, and automated test setups, including scripting in Python or similar languages
- Board-level design experience: schematics and PCBs you designed yourself (test fixtures and test stations count)
- Deep proficiency with bench instrumentation: oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, power analyzers, electronic loads, and environmental chambers
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or related field
NICE TO HAVE:
- EMC/EMI pre-compliance testing experience (MIL-STD-461 or equivalent)
- High-speed interface compliance testing (PCIe, MIPI, USB, Ethernet)
- Experience taking hardware through production ramp with contract manufacturers, including production test development
- Background in UAV, aerospace, automotive, defense, or medical device hardware
