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Salary: USD 150,000 - 210,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead the design and integration of high-reliability digital electronics for aerospace and military applications. This role spans the full product lifecycle, from requirements definition and architecture trades through schematic design, layout guidance, analysis, board bring-up, verification, production support, and field testing of mission-critical systems.
The ideal candidate is a digital circuit designer with strong hands-on board design experience, practical signal integrity and power integrity judgment, and the ability to coordinate complex technical tasks across FPGA, software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams with minimal supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead design of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems in accordance with customer requirements, applicable aerospace and military standards, and internal design practices
- Design PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries
- Contribute to digital hardware architectures, detailed schematics, stack-up recommendations, routing constraints, and design analyses for mission-critical electronics
- Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis for high-speed interfaces, memory buses, clocks, power distribution networks, and mixed-signal board environments
- Define PCB layout constraints for controlled impedance, length matching, return paths, grounding, shielding, decoupling, and isolation of sensitive circuits
- Collaborate with FPGA, embedded software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineers to ensure digital hardware integrates cleanly within larger systems
- Plan and support board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification testing, and production transition activities
- Generate and maintain schematics, analysis reports, design documentation, BOMs, interface documentation, and test plans
- Serve as a technical interface with vendors, suppliers, and customers for digital hardware matters
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, the company employs 250+ people across 5 global offices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years of experience in digital circuit design and PCB design for high-reliability applications
- Demonstrated expertise in signal integrity and power integrity analysis
- Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (Altium, Cadence, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of high-speed digital interfaces (DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, LVDS, etc.)
- Experience with FPGA integration and embedded systems
- Knowledge of aerospace and military design standards (MIL-STD, RTCA/DO-160)
- Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and standards such as RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
- Experience performing design margin analysis, derating analysis, tolerance analysis, or worst-case circuit analysis
- Experience designing for manufacturability and transition to production
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and coordinate across multiple engineering disciplines
