Electrical Engineer - System Electronics

Joby Aviation•San Carlos, CA

5d•$87,500 - $160,000

About The Position

Joby is seeking a talented electrical engineer to join our team designing all-electric aircraft. This engineer will work closely with mechanical, software, and other cross-functional teams. You'll be taking ownership of key electrical subsystems and printed-circuit-boards from design through prototyping and to product. This is a hands-on position. Optimizing designs for reliability, weight, and efficiency will be a focus.

Requirements

B.S. in Electrical Engineering (or a related discipline) with 2+ years of relevant industry working experience, or equivalent work experience
Strong electrical engineering fundamentals, including: Power conversion (linear and switching regulators), Digital design and layout, Signal conditioning and conversion (ADCs, filters), Discrete semiconductor design (FETs, BJTs, Diodes), Schematic capture and PCB design
Experience with component selection
Hands-on experience with building and debugging hardware
Great communication skills

Nice To Haves

M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
Experience with electric transportation
Experience with high voltage DC electrical systems
Familiarity with Altium Designer
Exposure to regulatory certification
Design-for-reliability experience, including the use of DFMEA and fault trees

Responsibilities

Create clear and readable schematics for digital and mixed-signal printed-circuit-boards
Component selection for minimum mass and maximum reliability
Investigate modern technologies for power and data transmission/management
Work with PCB designers to create reliable and low-weight layouts
Write and validate requirements
Work with system safety team to drive DFMEAs
Author verification test cases and execute the test cases
Assist with the creation, bring-up, and support of tools to support design
Drive continual process improvements, maturing existing designs, and incorporating feedback from field use cases