Senior Electrical Engineer

Joby Aviation • Santa Cruz, CA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Joby Flight Research designs, develops, and flight-tests novel aircraft using a software-first autonomy approach. They build and deploy autonomy, perception, planning, and radar systems across conventional, electric, and hydrogen-electric aircraft in both CTOL and VTOL configurations. Joby is seeking a talented Electrical Engineer to join their team designing aircraft avionics. This engineer will work closely with software, systems, mechanical and other cross-functional teams, taking ownership of key electrical subsystems and printed-circuit-boards from design through prototyping and to product. This is a hands-on position, and optimizing designs for reliability, weight, and efficiency will be essential.

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 6+ years of working experience in relevant industry
• Strong understanding of electrical fundamentals and best practices
• Power conversion (linear and switching regulators)
• High-speed digital design and layout
• Signal conditioning and conversion (ADCs, filters)
• Discrete semiconductor design (FETs, BJTs, Diodes)
• Schematic capture and PCB design
• Experience with electrical component selection
• Hands-on experience with building and debugging hardware
• Great communication skills
• This position must meet US export control compliance requirements, therefore a candidate must qualify as a “US Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15. “US Person” includes US Citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in relevant discipline
• Proficiency with ECAD programs such as Altium Designer, KiCAD and EAGLE
• Design-for-reliability, including use of DFMEA and fault trees
• Designing for high EMI environments
• Competency with MCAD programs such as CATIA, Autodesk and Solidworks
• Competency in embedded Linux, Python and C++

Responsibilities

• Get to know the team and the aircraft
• Get familiar with the electrical and avionics system architecture
• Help support hardware and software test
• Design, test and bring-up a well-scoped piece of avionics equipment that will support our aircraft and test assets
• Support writing Software for hardware in the loop testing
• Support Flight Test through seeing an avionics design through to aircraft integration
• Take ownership of a piece of avionics equipment, driving key component and PCB design choices
• Support electrical system architecture trade studies
• Support flight test activities by helping troubleshoot flight test aircraft
• Support certification activities with electrical loads analysis, electrical power design and requirements generation & validation

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Healthcare benefits
• A 401(k) plan with a company match
• An employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees