Hardware Engineer — Munition System

MetaOption, LLC • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're building a small, safety-critical kinetic munition delivered by an FPV-class airframe. The compute side is an electro mechanical safe and arm device (EMSAD). You'll own the electronics — from schematic, through PCB layout, through bring-up and qualification of every board in the system. We expect engineers to drive electrical decisions, document them clearly, and stand behind them during qualification and field validation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional electronics design experience.
• Strong knowledge of low-power MCUs, mixed-signal systems, power supplies, sensors, and RF-adjacent layout.
• PCB layout expertise in tools such as Altium, KiCad, or Cadence.
• Hands-on lab debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and soldering tools.
• Experience debugging complex hardware issues including EMC and brown-out edge cases.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.

Nice To Haves

• Safety-critical or fail-safe hardware design experience.
• Experience with S&A or fuzing electronics.
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 / MIL-STD-461 testing.
• FPV / small-UAV electronics experience.
• DFT for high-mix low-volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design the main EMSAD board and auxiliary boards.
• Handle schematic design and multilayer PCB layout.
• Define hardware safety architecture with redundant interlocks and fail-safe defaults.
• Build and run bring-up benches and first-article validation.
• Collaborate closely with firmware engineers on drivers and timing.
• Drive environmental qualification: thermal, vibration, EMC, ESD, drop testing.
• Own BOM management, DFM/DFT, and factory tester development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed