Senior Electrical Engineer I

Axon•Scottsdale, AZ

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Your Impact You will contribute to Axon’s product line as part of the Axon Robotics team (formerly Sky-Hero). We are building career-defining, next-generation Drones and Robots to help reach our Moonshot: cut gun-related deaths between police and the public by 50% in 10 years. As an Electrical Engineer, you’ll contribute to advance Axon’s mission to Protect Life, by designing and prototyping electronic boards and systems for Mission-Critical robots like UAVs, UGVs, etc. EDA tools include Altium Designer and Cadence OrCAD/Allegro. Using your knowledge and creativity you’ll solve challenging problems in Electronics Engineering, and you’ll design, assemble and debug electronics boards and prototypes, being a force of proposal in our R&D process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
6+ years of industry-leading electronics design experience with emphasis on designing densely populated, tightly packaged, battery-powered embedded systems.
A passion and curiosity for designing Embedded Electronics systems
Comfortable using test equipment such as DMM, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer
Excellent hands-on skills: able to assemble board prototypes with lab equipment
Excellent all-round electronics knowledge, from analog to digital
Proficient doing multi-layer PCB layouts and/or rigid-flex designs
Awareness of EMC and signal integrity issues and best practices as they relate to PCB design
Knowledge of at least one EDA package: Altium Designer and/or Cadence OrCAD
Knowledge of the C and Python programming languages for test firmware development
Passion for Drones and Robots
English proficiency required

Nice To Haves

French and or Dutch are a plus
BLDC motors and motor controllers
EMC compliance and certification
CE/RED and FCC legislation
Embedded Linux

Responsibilities

Participate in research and development of our next generation products
Design schematic, PCBs, test, verify prototypes and assist the Firmware and Software Engineering Teams in bringing up new boards
Design and build custom test systems for measuring the performance of our electronics systems
Test and measure boards, multi-board assemblies and electronic components such as batteries, motors, etc.
Support manufacturing and follow up designs when changes are required due to component obsolescence or unavailability