Goken America LLC
Electrical Engineer - PCB Design for Avionics
Costa Mesa, CA · Mid
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About the role
- We also foster a culture built on high performance, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional development.
- Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.
- California Pay Range $60 - $68 USD Goken is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and engaging workplace across all global locations.
Responsibilities
- Full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, and system integration
- Conduct bring-up and design work on microcontrollers, ensuring seamless integration within the system
- Perform power design, including development and integration of power management systems and components
- Develop payloads and subsystems (sensors, payload interfaces, power management, and networking)
- Create system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment within a subsystem
- In this role, you will be tasked with working closely with avionics engineers to review and design electrical integration details to ensure details are documented and communicated to all relevant stakeholders for flight critical electronics, PCB assemblies and FPGA-based processing architectures.
- We partner with OEMs and suppliers across the mobility space, as well as clients in non-mobility industries, to deliver innovative solutions and accelerate product development.
- This mindset fuels our mission and empowers our teams to solve complex problems, deliver measurable value, and move our clients and industries forward.
- Our Mission is to build trust that fosters greatness in our people, excellence in our clients, and positive impact in the communities we serve.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 3+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex system designs
- Experience designing PCBs with Altium software
- Familiarity with common electrical bus interfaces (CAN, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, RS232/422, RS485, USB)
- Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, including bring-up and design work
- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
- Experience designing mixed-signal PCBs with multiple layer counts, layer stackup and impedance matching for power and sensor applications, understanding correct grounding approaches and employing appropriate board protections and filtering
- Ability to perform power system and electrical loading analysis, simulation, and testing to determine optimal solutions
- High competence using lab test equipment (benchtop power supplies, electronics loads, oscilloscopes, DMM, logic/spectrum analyzers, etc.) with familiarity of thermal and EMI test chambers and using basic software debugging tools
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
Compensation
- California Pay Range $60 - $68 USD Goken is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and engaging workplace across all global locations.
Benefits
- Our Vision is to empower associates to drive innovation and lead meaningful change wherever it's needed, ensuring we stay ahead of the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow.
- Goken offers a competitive compensation structure and benefits that support professional growth and personal well-being.
Company info
- Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio (USA) with Engineering Centers in Pune, India and Yokohama, Japan, Goken is a global Engineering Services and Product Development company founded in 2004.
Visa & Work Authorization
- security clearance
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