GITAI
Electrical Engineer
$125K–$155K
Los Angeles, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Jun 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of hands-on PCB design and 1+ year of full-time early-stage hardware startup experience are required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related hardware engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the U.S.; visa sponsorship is not available. U.S. citizenship is required for the role. ITAR eligibility requires U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, refugee or asylum status, or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
About the job
Own board-level PCB and avionics hardware design for spacecraft, robotic systems, and space defense programs, taking hardware from architecture through fabrication, bring-up, integration, and testing.
What you'll do
- Design, release, bring up, and test PCBAs, including schematics, layouts, manufacturing packages, and documentation.
- Coordinate with mechanical, firmware, software, systems, and manufacturing teams to integrate and debug hardware.
- Work with fabrication and assembly vendors and support integration, environmental testing, and failure investigations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related hardware engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on PCB design experience using Altium or a similar ECAD tool.
- 1+ year of full-time experience at an early-stage hardware startup; internship-only experience does not qualify.
- Personally owned PCB designs from schematic capture through layout, fabrication release, assembly support, board bring-up, and test.
Pay
$125,000 to $155,000 per year (USD) — base salary; $125,000 — $155,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Altium, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters
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