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Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and supports high-reliability RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include RF architecture, component trade studies, circuit-board design, simulation, lab and field testing, troubleshooting, PCB layout, production support, failure analysis, and system integration. The role is hands-on, full-time, and on-site in Hawthorne, California, requiring collaboration across systems, power, digital, mechanical, and software engineering teams.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF and microwave electronics for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities span architecture, component trade studies, RF circuit-board design, simulation, PCB layout, lab and field experimentation, production support, failure analysis, and sustainment. The role requires hands-on RF measurement expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. This is a full-time, on-site position in Hawthorne, California.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities span architecture, component trade studies, RF circuit-board design, simulation, PCB layout, laboratory and field testing, failure analysis, production support, and system integration. The role collaborates across electrical, systems, software, mechanical, and power engineering teams while supporting mission-critical hardware throughout its lifecycle.

Leads the end-to-end design and development of high-reliability power and analog electronics for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include architecture trades, circuit schematics and simulation, PCB layout guidance, EMI/EMC mitigation, design analysis, thermal and failure assessment, board bring-up, verification, qualification, production transition, and field support. The engineer coordinates across RF, digital, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams while resolving complex technical issues independently.

Serves as the technical authority for power electronics and analog board design supporting aerospace and defense systems. Leads architecture, circuit design, simulation, PCB strategy, EMI/EMC mitigation, design analysis, verification, qualification, production transition, failure analysis, and field support. Establishes engineering practices, resolves complex cross-disciplinary hardware issues, sets technical direction, and mentors engineers across multiple programs.

Leads and scales the electrical engineering organization developing high-reliability power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics for RF sensors and avionics. Oversees architecture, design, integration, qualification, production, field support, and failure investigation. Establishes engineering standards, review practices, staffing plans, and resource allocation while resolving complex hardware, FPGA, RF, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing, and test issues. Requires hands-on technical leadership, team development, customer and supplier engagement, and experience with aerospace or defense electronics.

Leads mechanical design and integration for air-launched and ground-launched aerospace vehicles, including airframes, control surfaces, structures, mechanisms, and support hardware. Develops CAD models, drawings, analyses, and verification documentation; performs trade studies; supports manufacturing, integration, qualification, flight testing, production, and fielding. Collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, resolves hardware integration challenges, leads design reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads mechanical design, packaging, integration, analysis, qualification, and production transition for ruggedized 3U and 6U VPX electronic hardware. Designs chassis, card cages, backplanes, interfaces, cooling solutions, and related assemblies using CAD and applicable VITA/OpenVPX standards. Produces production drawings and documentation, supports structural and thermal analyses, collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, and contributes to prototyping, environmental testing, fielding, and sustainment.

Leads architecture, design, analysis, verification, production transition, and sustainment of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems for aerospace and military applications. Oversees PCB layout strategy, signal and power integrity, FPGA and processor interfaces, EMI/EMC, qualification, troubleshooting, and failure analysis. Provides technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, interfaces with customers and suppliers, establishes design practices, and mentors engineers.

Design, develop, integrate, test, and qualify ruggedized sensor systems, avionics, electronic hardware, enclosures, structures, mechanisms, and thermal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. Create CAD models and production documentation, perform structural and thermal analyses, support prototyping and qualification, resolve multidisciplinary integration issues, and contribute to manufacturing, configuration control, fielding, and sustainment.