Electrical Engineer
Los Angeles, CA$105k - $135kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Electrical Engineer role at Airhart Aeronautics, building avionics hardware and taking ownership of boards from prototype to production. Lab-heavy role with opportunities to contribute to a full avionics platform in a fast-moving YC-backed startup.
Responsibilities
- Own one or more avionics PCBAs from prototype through production.
- Bring up new hardware and verify circuit operation.
- Debug electrical issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other lab equipment.
- Work with firmware engineers to validate new hardware and diagnose system-level issues.
- Update schematics and layouts to improve reliability, manufacturability, cost, and performance.
- Support prototype builds and work directly with manufacturing to resolve production issues.
- Review test results and determine root causes of hardware failures.
- Design and validate simple test setups for hardware verification.
- As you grow, take ownership of clean-sheet designs for new avionics hardware.
Qualifications
- Approximately 1–3 years of professional electrical engineering experience developing electronics hardware.
- OR a recent graduate with exceptional hands-on hardware experience through internships or major engineering projects.
- Schematic capture and PCB design.
- Board bring-up and hardware debugging.
- Microcontrollers and embedded systems.
- Digital interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, or Ethernet.
- Reading datasheets and selecting components.
- Laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and logic analyzers.
Skills
Required:Schematic capture and PCB designBoard bring-up and hardware debuggingMicrocontrollers and embedded systemsDigital interfaces (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet)Reading datasheets and selecting componentsLaboratory equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, logic analyzers)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Airhart Aeronautics
Airplanes anyone can fly
Airhart is making airplanes anyone can fly. Our semi-autonomous tech will enable 10x more people to fly their own planes and make flying to Tahoe as easy as driving to the grocery store
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