Electrical Engineer

Rockstar•Atlanta, GA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Rockstar is recruiting for a venture-backed Warfighter technology company focused on increasing the lethality and survivability of U.S. and allied Warfighters. The client builds LADRS (Laser Aiming & Drone Remote System), a solution to cognitive overload on the modern battlefield. This is a ground-floor opportunity to join a mission-driven team. The client is seeking an Electrical Engineer to own PCB design for its innovative weapon-mounted remote control system, from schematic capture through fabrication, assembly, and test. The Electrical Engineer will design both analog and digital circuits and get hands-on with bring-up and debug on the bench. They will work alongside other engineers on the team throughout the process, from firmware and mechanical to RF layout support and testing.

Requirements

5+ years of experience designing PCBs that shipped to production, including assembly and test
Proficiency in Altium Designer and/or KiCad
Strong fundamentals in analog and digital circuit design
Working knowledge of RF communication techniques: FSK, LoRa, modulation, encoding/decoding
Able to produce a complete, correct RF schematic
Hands-on lab experience: comfortable soldering, reworking boards, and debugging hardware themselves
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Nice To Haves

Experience working with PCB fab/assembly vendors
Experience designing to military specifications (MIL-STD)
Prior work with weapon-mounted devices/electronics
Prior work on small UAV, drone, or other size/weight/power-constrained electronics
Experience building RF transmitter/receiver modules for video transmission
Prior U.S. military service, especially in Army, Marine Corps, Airborne, Ranger, SOF units (or any other relevant units)
Active or prior Secret clearance is a plus

Responsibilities

Owns the PCB layouts
Designs analog and digital circuits for sensors, payload electronics, and communication modules
Designs for manufacturability (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) to support production-scale builds
May work with PCB fabrication and contract assembly vendors: quoting, DFM reviews, issue resolution
Develops and runs test procedures for board bring-up and validation
Selects and integrates RF communication components; works with modulation/encoding schemes (e.g., FSK, LoRa)
Builds, reworks, and debugs prototypes themselves: soldering, rework, bench instrumentation (scope, multimeter, spectrum analyzer)
Collaborates with firmware and mechanical engineering on system-level integration