Senior Electrical Engineer - Microcontroller and Sensors

Company: Archer Aviation
Location: San Jose
Posted on: September 21, 2023

Job Description:

What You'll Do

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• Develop detailed electrical system requirements based on design functional needs, then design complete electrical systems to meet your requirements.
  
• Complete detailed design layouts and/or supervise design layout.
  
• Use simulations, prototypes, engineering tests, detailed electrical measurements to ensure your designs work as expected.
  
• Design processor and communication architectures and select suitable microcontrollers for implementation
  
• Design power supply, communication, sensing, and measurement electronic circuits.
  
• Collaborate with other mechanical, systems, electrical, safety and manufacturing engineers to optimize your design for overall vehicle performance.
  
• Develop and execute engineering validation plans to verify your design meets all requirements.
  
  What You Need
  
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  • Electrical Engineering Degree or equivalent experience.
    
  • 8+ years of relevant electrical system and circuit board design experience.
    
  • Strong ability to work cross functionally and drive decisions to closure
    
  • Demonstrated ability to design a PCBA from a blank sheet to production.
    
  • Understanding of analog and power circuits (MOSFETs, op-amps, switching regulators, gate drivers, etc.).
    
  • Experience designing PCBAs to avoid electromagnetic interference,minimizing stray inductance and capacitance, separating power/signal planes.
    
  • Experience designing PCBAs for high-speed communications
    
  • Experience with component selection, including simulation, tolerance, variance, power dissipation etc.
    
  • Skilled using electrical engineering tools like oscilloscopes, network analyzers, signal generators, power supplies, semiconductor testers, etc.
    
  • Experience shipping high-volume electronics products.
    
  • Experience designing for mission critical systems using fail-safe and redundant designs.
    
  • Strong embedded programming ability.
    
    Bonus Qualifications
    
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    • Experience designing electrical systems for aerospace or automotive requirements
      
    • Hands on experience with aviation DO-160G testing and DO-254 development
      
    • Passion for aviation and eVTOLs
      
      At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company's business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $134,400 - $168,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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