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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 company develops multi-product defense systems powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN), serving warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams. Founded in 2022, CHAOS has raised $1 billion in funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners, and operates offices across Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London.
This role spans the full product lifecycle, from early architecture and requirements shaping through detailed design, analysis, verification, production support, and fielded system sustainment. You will 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.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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
- 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 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 and military standards including MIL-STD-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
- Develop design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, and review processes for engineering teams
- Lead transition from prototype hardware to production with focus on manufacturability
This is a full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Deep expertise in digital circuit design and signal integrity analysis
- Extensive experience with high-speed board design, signal integrity, and power integrity
- Track record of leading complex designs and influencing technical direction
- Ability to guide cross-disciplinary teams through ambiguous, high-consequence hardware challenges
- 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
- Familiarity with aerospace and military standards (MIL-STD-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1275)
