Staff Electrical Engineer, Advanced Targeting System

ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Warfighter Systems division is pioneering a future where mixed reality (MR), creates immersive, intuitive, and life-saving technologies. By seamlessly integrating real-time data with cutting-edge visualization tools, we are empowering warfighters with unparalleled situational awareness, enhanced training experiences, and operational superiority. This team is consistently pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and shaping a future where technology and defense unite to protect our nation.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
As a Staff Electrical Engineer, you will be part of an exclusive CEO-priority program to deliver a soldier-portable, auto-aiming counter-UAS system (actuator-driven steerable platform, CV models, LIDAR ballistic calculator, onboard power/compute). Your mission is simple and urgent: ensure U.S. warfighters don't get attacked by drones. You will take an existing prototype and drive it through ruggedization and into a Weapon Systems production-ready design with components and processes that can be manufactured at scale.

YOU WILL:

• Own the electrical architecture end-to-end, assessing the existing prototype, documenting tribal knowledge, and identifying EE-specific gaps across power, sensing, compute, and actuator drive subsystems.
• Build a technical roadmap that bridges the current prototype to a full Weapon Systems prototype with long-term production-intent parts and architecture.
• Help hire and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team (EE, ME, SW) capable of rapidly iterating and prototyping complex hardware systems under aggressive timelines.
• Drive design and integration of EE subsystems, including electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute boards, actuator drive electronics, and control systems — balancing bandwidth, force, speed, SWaP, and ruggedization trade-offs.
• Establish and execute test plans for electro-optical, actuator, and power subsystems, and be willing to change course quickly when data demands it in order to get a working product delivered in a short time period.
• Ruggedize, qualify, and certify the integrated prototype against the shock, vibration, thermal, and environmental conditions expected on a soldier-carried platform.
• Transition the validated design into early production, collaborating closely with manufacturing, test/evaluation, and supply chain to ensure the design can scale.
• Communicate program status directly to executive and CEO-level stakeholders, representing the technical state of a high-visibility, high-priority program.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional electrical engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of design ownership on complex electromechanical systems.
• Proven ability to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team to rapidly iterate and prototype hardware systems.
• Demonstrated experience taking hardware from bench prototype through ruggedization to early manufacturing (prototype-to-production).
• Familiarity with actuator dynamics — bandwidth, force, and speed trade-offs — and the associated drive electronics and control systems.
• Breadth across EE subsystems, including electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute board design, and closed-loop control systems.
• Ability to author and execute pragmatic test plans, interpret results, and change course when required to deliver a working product on an aggressive timeline.
• A self-starter mentality, capable of identifying problems, proposing innovative solutions, and executing with minimal oversight.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience designing for soldier-portable platforms with an instinct for practical SWaP and ergonomic constraints.
• Experience with sensor fusion, computer vision model integration, and algorithm pipelines at the system level.
• Background in counter-UAS, fire control, or precision targeting systems.
• Experience designing for extreme shock, vibration, and environmental sealing in defense or ruggedized applications.
• Experience communicating program status to executive and CEO-level stakeholders.
• Active Secret Security clearance (or higher), or prior cleared work with the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.