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Salary: USD 211,000 - 264,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for high-reliability digital electronics used in aerospace and military applications. The role spans the full product lifecycle, from early architecture and requirements shaping through detailed design, analysis, verification, production support, and fielded system sustainment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and technical execution of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices
- Lead design and review of complex PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries
- Lead digital hardware architecture trades and define design approaches balancing system performance, schedule, manufacturability, reliability, and qualification requirements
- Develop and promote design practices for digital board design, stack-up definition, layout constraints, SI/PI analysis, bring-up, and verification within assigned product areas
- Resolve complex cross-disciplinary technical issues involving digital hardware, FPGA/software interfaces, RF coexistence, power distribution, EMI/EMC, thermal behavior, and mechanical packaging
- Define and review PCB layout strategy for controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, shielding, decoupling, power distribution networks, and isolation of sensitive circuits
- Serve as a senior technical interface with customers, vendors, suppliers, and internal program leadership for digital hardware topics
- Mentor engineers and coordinate technical activities across digital, FPGA, embedded software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams
- Lead or provide technical direction for design verification, qualification testing, and compliance with aerospace standards (DO-254, MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810)
The ideal candidate is an experienced digital hardware technical leader with deep high-speed board design, signal integrity, and power integrity expertise; a track record of leading complex designs and influencing technical direction; and the ability to guide cross-disciplinary teams through ambiguous, high-consequence hardware challenges.
COMPANY CONTEXT:
CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised $1 billion in funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company redefines modern defense with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. Currently 250+ employees across 5 global offices.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
- Deep expertise in digital circuit design and signal integrity analysis for high-reliability aerospace and military applications
- Extensive experience with high-speed PCB design, including controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, and shielding
- Strong background in power integrity and power distribution network design
- Proven experience with FPGA, processor, memory, data converter, and high-speed serial interface design
- Familiarity with aerospace and military standards (DO-254, MIL-STD-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1275)
- Experience developing design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or review processes for engineering teams
- Experience designing for manufacturability and leading transition from prototype hardware to production
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead cross-disciplinary engineering teams
- Track record of technical leadership and influencing design direction on complex programs
