Senior Electronics Engineer — PCB Design & Bring-Up

You will collaborate closely with our embedded software, systems, and hardware and forward deployed engineers to design and bring up the PCBs that power the compute and sensor platforms onboard our UAVs — from schematic to flight-ready hardware. You'll set the technical direction for PCB design and hardware bring-up, working with freelance designers and contract manufacturers along the way.

Responsibilities

• Designing multi-layer, high-density PCBs from schematic capture through layout and release.
• Routing high-speed digital buses (PCIe Gen3/Gen4, MIPI CSI/DSI, USB 3.x) with proper impedance control and length matching.
• Designing DC power systems for onboard UAV compute and sensor platforms that hold up under LiPo battery voltage sag and EMI from motors and ESCs.
• Bringing up new boards: debugging schematics and circuits, chasing down electrical issues on the bench, and flashing firmware to validate hardware.
• Setting technical direction for PCB design and bring-up across the hardware team.
• Owning hardware from prototype through to a field-ready product.

Requirements

• Senior-level PCB design experience — we'll judge this by the strength and depth of your portfolio rather than a fixed year count.
• Deep experience with multi-layer PCB design and stack-up planning.
• Proven high-speed digital routing experience: PCIe (Gen3/Gen4), MIPI CSI/DSI, USB 3.x — impedance-controlled, length-matched traces on multi-layer boards.
• Experience with DC power filtering and EMI mitigation for battery-powered systems with noisy motor/ESC loads.
• Hands-on PCB bring-up experience: schematic and circuit debugging, bench-level fault-finding, and flashing firmware to validate hardware.
• Proficiency in Altium and/or KiCad, plus a circuit simulation tool.
• A portfolio of PCB projects you've designed and brought up yourself — we will ask to see it.
• A willingness to pick up and learn new concepts quickly and to self-acquire missing background knowledge.
• A high degree of autonomy, determination and grit in making cool tech work.
• Full time availability (40 hours)

Nice to have

• Experience designing PCBs for RF/communications or radar applications, ideally with CST Studio Suite or similar EM simulation tools — a big plus, not required.
• Experience with SBC/embedded carrier boards (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson, Rockchip) and camera/sensor interfacing (MIPI CSI cabling, I²C buses) is a plus.

Benefits

• Money of course.
• 25 vacation days per year.
• Reimbursed travel expenses and company laptop.
• (Really) flexible working hours — this role is bench- and lab-based, so we do need you on-site, but start/end times are yours to shape.
• Working in an international, world-class team of engineers and entrepreneurs solving real-life problems with amazing technology.
• Large freedom in how you work and implement solutions, project ownership is incredibly important to us.
• The opportunity to take technical risks, to implement stuff the 'right' way and to iterate quickly with tight feedback loops. We are innovating, learning is to be expected.
• Responsibility over the things you build, you are the expert on what you design and bring up.