Senior Electrical Engineer II, Design Assurance

Neros Technologies•Torrance, CA

13d•$187,000 - $315,000

About The Position

Neros is a defense technology company that designs and manufactures unmanned systems. The Senior Electrical Engineer, Design Assurance will validate electronics for next-generation airside and groundside platforms. The role involves circuit analysis, hardware bring-up and characterization, qualification testing, and designing fixtures and test stations. The engineer will work directly with design engineers during product development to ensure findings are addressed before production.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in electrical hardware engineering, with hands-on ownership of circuit-board design verification, validation, or qualification.
Hands-on worst-case circuit analysis and component derating on production hardware, from schematic-level analysis through post-layout checks and bench correlation.
Experience with board bring-up, characterization, and validation, including writing test plans and reports.
Signal and power integrity simulation using HFSS, HyperLynx, SIwave, or similar, with bench validation using TDR, VNA, and high-speed oscilloscopes.
Qualification testing experience, including HALT/HASS and environmental testing such as thermal and vibration testing to MIL-STD-810 or equivalent standards.
Experience designing and building test fixtures, HIL stations, and automated test setups, including scripting in Python or similar.
Board-level design experience, including schematics and PCBs personally designed; test fixtures and test stations count.
Deep proficiency with bench instrumentation, including oscilloscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, power analyzers, electronic loads, and environmental chambers.
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field.

Nice To Haves

EMC/EMI pre-compliance testing experience, such as MIL-STD-461 or equivalent.
High-speed interface compliance testing experience with PCIe, MIPI, USB, or Ethernet.
Experience taking hardware through a production ramp with a contract manufacturer, including production test development.
Background in UAV, aerospace, automotive, defense, or medical device hardware.

Responsibilities

Perform worst-case circuit analysis and component derating from schematic through post-layout; update analysis with bench measurements and work with the responsible engineer to close findings before release.
Bring up, characterize, and validate circuit boards against requirements, including authoring test plans, procedures, and reports.
Perform signal and power integrity simulation and validate results on the bench; feed findings into stackup, layout, and decoupling decisions.
Plan and execute qualification testing, including HALT/HASS, thermal, vibration, and EMC pre-compliance testing, and lead root-cause analysis of failures.
Design and build test fixtures, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) stations, and HALT/HASS setups, including automation and data acquisition.
Support design engineers during product development with design-for-test (DFT) and design-for-reliability (DFR) input.