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Electrical Engineer (Sustaining/Validation)

Skydio· R&D
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San Mateo, California, United States$127k - $180kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Electrical Engineer role focused on sustaining products, supporting complex ecosystems through mass production, and driving reliability through design changes, validation, and cross-functional analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Resolve issues by owning and leading deep, cross functional analysis on complex system-level problems
  • Elevate quality through technical validation of components and subsystems
  • Perform electrical failure analysis (FA) on customer returns, RMAs, and field failures to identify design, component, or process issues
  • Own and execute design changes to improve reliability, manufacturability
  • Drive electrical component and PCB changes and validation to address issues or supply chain changes

Qualifications

  • Strong electrical validation and test experience
  • Able to root cause PCBA and system level failures
  • Deep understanding of analog and digital circuit design, power management, and mixed-signal systems
  • Proficiency in schematic design
  • Familiarity with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power analyzers, power supplies, bash script, etc)
  • History of collecting, collating, and analyzing field data
  • Strong ownership mindset and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Experience with high speed camera interfaces (MIPI CSI, D-PHY and C-PHY)
  • Obtaining FAA Part 107 certification within the first 60 days of employment is strongly encouraged for all Skydio employees and required for certain positions

Skills

Required:Electrical validation and testRoot cause analysis (PCBA and system level)Analog and digital circuit design, power management, mixed-signal systemsSchematic designLab instrumentationData analysis from field dataCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:FAA Part 107 knowledge

Benefits

  • Paid vacation time
  • sick leave
  • holiday pay
  • 401K savings plan
  • group health insurance plans
  • Relocation assistance may be provided for eligible roles
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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