Power System - High Voltage Specialist/Sr. Technician

We are growing the Avionics Engineering team to support development of the X-BAT aircraft. Our team is designing a flight critical, custom avionics system to support communications, compute, AI, power, telemetry, and all other needed aircraft systems.

An Avionics Specialist/Sr. Technician - High Voltage supports the entire Avionics team and other cross-functional teams. It is an essential role spanning design, verification, procurement, manufacturing, and test. You will work specifically with the Power Systems team as they design and verify all X-BAT high voltage power systems. This includes the generator, battery, and all power converters.

Responsibilities:

• Set up and execute test campaigns for custom circuits and sub-systems such as verifying logic levels, voltage rails, and basic circuit functions
• Perform benchtop PCBA testing and debugging
• Support engineers through environmental qualification that includes temperature, vibration, altitude, humidity, etc.
• Design, verify, and deploy simple PCBAs, fixtures, and harnesses
• Assist with the avionics lab design and buildout

Requirements:

• 2+ years working around high voltage, high power systems. Such as 270V and higher
• Experience performing benchtop testing with basic EE equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, electronic load, thermal chamber, etc.)
• Experience performing PCBA and harness rework
• Proficiency reading and interpreting schematics
• Experience working on multidisciplinary hardware development projects, which can be from an internship, job, club, team, personal project, etc…
• Demonstrated history of showing ownership of project outcomes and delivering exceptional results
• Record of working hard, being a trustworthy teammate, holding yourself and others to high standards, and being kind to others

$36 - $54 an hour