Join CHAOS as a Senior Principal Electrical Engineer, where you will serve as a technical authority for high-reliability digital electronics used in aerospace and military applications. You will lead the design and review of complex PCBAs, guide PCB layout strategy, and mentor engineers across various teams. This role offers generous pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive medical benefits.
About the role
- The ideal candidate is a senior digital hardware technical authority with deep high-speed board design, signal integrity, and power integrity expertise; a track record of setting design direction across programs; and the ability to guide cross-disciplinary teams through ambiguous, high-consequence hardware challenges - Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and lead engineers through ambiguous, cross-disciplinary hardware challenges - Hands-on experience leading board bring-up, system integration, troubleshooting, verification, qualification, production transition, and failure analysis activities - Experience setting PCB layout strategy and design review criteria for high-speed digital, mixed-signal, and high-reliability electronics - Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant engineering experience - Demonstrated technical leadership of complex high-speed digital hardware - Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals, including timing, clocking, controlled impedance, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, decoupling, and return-path management - Extensive experience with digital board design involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, high-speed data converters, and board-level communication interfaces - Advanced Degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline - Experience using Altium Designer - Experience with Avionics platforms - Expertise with signal integrity and/or power integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent - Experience with DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, LVDS, or similar high-speed interfaces in high-reliability systems - Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and aerospace standards such as RTCA/DO-160, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275 - Experience establishing design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or review processes for engineering teams - Experience designing for manufacturability and leading transition from prototype hardware to productionKey missions
- Act as a technical authority for high-speed digital circuit design, signal integrity, and power integrity across multiple programs or product lines.
- Lead design and review of complex PCBAs involving FPGAs, processors, memory devices, data converters, clocks, high-speed serial interfaces, and mixed-signal boundaries.
- Set standards, procedures, and review practices for digital board design, stack-up definition, layout constraints, SI/PI analysis, bring-up, and verification.