Furientis

Edge Hardware / Firmware Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$40k-$60kDetected 70 days ago

PythonRustRailsNLPSupply ChainLogisticsPCB DesignAltiumCadenceKiCadEMI/EMCMIL-STDRoboticsElectrical Engineering

About the role

You will execute the design, layout, bring-up, and qualification of the boards and
The Seeker Team builds the eyes and the targeting logic of our weapon system: a low-cost, mass-producible, multimodal missile seeker that leans on commercial supply chains where they outperform the defense legacy, with supply-chain security engineered in from day one.
On a modern missile, the seeker is 40 to 60% of unit cost and often drives overly long delivery cycles; accordingly, the seeker team is at the tip of the spear for delivering value to our customers and to the taxpayer.

Develop and bring up mixed-signal boards centered on a GPU SoC or SoM (NVIDIA Jetson/Orin, Qualcomm, NXP, or similar): high-speed image-sensor interface, low-noise analog chain, power conversion, and missile-bus IO.
Architect and implement the high-speed image-sensor interface (LVDS, MIPI CSI-2, CameraLink, SLVS-EC, SerDes) end-to-end from sensor pinout to SoM ingest, including timing, signal integrity, and zero-copy DMA into GPU-accessible memory.
Drive the power chain from missile bus to FPA bias rails (sequencing, low-noise LDOs, switching regulation, transient response, isolation), with component selection that bakes in cost, lead-time, second-source, and rad-tolerance from day one.
partner with mechanical on conformal coating, staking, thermal interfaces, and survivability.
Carrier-board design experience for a commercial SoM.

This is a wear-many-hats environment where you must be comfortable "building the airplane in flight" and stepping well outside your comfort zone
Carrier-board design for the chosen SoM as required.
A clearance is not required for this position.
Schematic and PCB tooling proficiency (Altium, Cadence, or KiCad) with practical layout judgment.

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related
4 to 6 years of mixed-signal hardware and firmware bring-up experience, with responsibility for at least one board (ideally with an SoM carrier) from schematic through bench validation.
Hands-on with high-speed image-sensor interfaces (LVDS, MIPI CSI-2, CameraLink, SLVS-EC, or SerDes) end-to-end from sensor to compute.

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related; M.S. preferred.
Strong fundamentals across high-speed digital (signal integrity, controlled impedance), low-noise analog, and power conversion.

America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year.
Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles.
We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.

a low-cost, mass-producible, multimodal missile seeker that leans on commercial supply chains where they outperform the defense legacy, with supply-chain security engineered in from day one.

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