System Hardware Engineer (Autonomous Flight Termination)
About The Position
Castelion is seeking a Senior Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) Hardware Engineer to design and deliver high-reliability flight safety electronics for its long-range hypersonic strike vehicles. The role focuses on ensuring safe, deterministic vehicle termination through robust, fault-tolerant hardware. The engineer will work hands-on with multidisciplinary engineering teams to design, build, test, and validate pulsed power electronics and firing systems, with a focus on electronic safe and arm devices (ESADs) and related architectures. The work takes place in a fast-paced, hardware-driven environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience designing and validating pulsed power, high-voltage, or firing system electronics for aerospace, defense, or similar high-reliability applications.
- Strong background in energy storage, high-speed/high-current switching, and pulsed power circuit design.
- Experience with electronic safe and arm devices (ESADs), initiation systems, or similar safety-critical hardware.
- Proficiency in circuit design, simulation, and analysis tools such as SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, environmental testing, and troubleshooting in a lab or flight hardware environment.
- Familiarity with system safety, redundancy, and fault-tolerant design principles for mission-critical systems.
- Experience designing for EMI/EMC, thermal performance, and operation in extreme environments.
- Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, hardware-rich, high-flight-cadence environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver high-reliability flight safety electronics for long-range hypersonic strike vehicles.
- Design, build, test, and validate pulsed power electronics and firing systems.
- Develop electronic safe and arm devices (ESADs) and related architectures.
- Help ensure safe, deterministic vehicle termination through robust, fault-tolerant hardware.
Benefits
- Meaningful employee equity.
- Four weeks of paid time off.
- Ten company-paid holidays.
- Medical plans with 100% employee coverage and 80% dependent coverage.
- Dental and vision coverage: 90% for employees and 80% for dependents.
- FSA and HSA options.
- 401(k) plan.
- Paid parental leave, including up to 10 weeks for birthing parents and up to 4 weeks for non-birthing parents; the posting also states eight weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and additional paid pregnancy leave for California employees.
- Frequently catered lunches and team meals, plus company-covered meals when extra time or effort is required.
- Fully stocked kitchen with unlimited snacks and drinks.
- $100 monthly fitness stipend.
- Onsite electric vehicle charging.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
