Hardware Engineer— Munition System

Recruiter Note : Candidate must be comfortable completing an initial 1-month onsite training period in  Kearneysville, WV, after which they will relocate back to work from  either San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Washington DC .

About the project

We're building a small, safety-critical kinetic munition delivered by an FPV-class airframe. The compute side is an electro mechanical safe and arm device (EMSAD).

You'll own the electronics — from schematic, through PCB layout, through bring-up and qualification of every board in the system.

What you'll do

• Architect and design the main EMSAD board and auxiliary boards.

• Handle schematic design and multilayer PCB layout.

• Define hardware safety architecture with redundant interlocks and fail-safe defaults.

• Build and run bring-up benches and first-article validation.

• Collaborate closely with firmware engineers on drivers and timing.

• Drive environmental qualification: thermal, vibration, EMC, ESD, drop testing.

• Own BOM management, DFM/DFT, and factory tester development.

Required

• 5+ years of professional electronics design experience.

• Strong knowledge of low-power MCUs, mixed-signal systems, power supplies, sensors, and RF-adjacent layout.

• PCB layout expertise in tools such as Altium, KiCad, or Cadence.

• Hands-on lab debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and soldering tools.

• Experience debugging complex hardware issues including EMC and brown-out edge cases.

• Strong written and verbal English communication.

Nice to have

• Safety-critical or fail-safe hardware design experience.

• Experience with S&A or fuzing electronics.

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 / MIL-STD-461 testing.

• FPV / small-UAV electronics experience.

• DFT for high-mix low-volume manufacturing.