- Robot type
- Marine and Space
- Location
- Los AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Jun 29, 2026
- Salary
- $125,000–$160,000 a year
Full-time
Electrical Engineer
Job description
As an Electrical Engineer at GITAI, you will own board-level electrical hardware design for spacecraft, robotic systems, and space defense programs, including interceptor-related systems. This is a PCB design and avionics hardware role. It is not primarily an embedded software, firmware, or FPGA role. We are looking for someone who has personally designed real PCBs and taken them through fabrication, assembly, bring-up, and test. Your work will not stop at the board boundary. GITAI’s hardware is tightly integrated across electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, and system-level constraints.
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related hardware engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on PCB design experience using Altium or a similar ECAD tool.
- 1+ year of full-time experience at an early-stage hardware startup, ideally Seed to Series B, is required. Internship-only experience does not meet this requirement.
- Experience personally owning PCB designs from schematic capture through layout, fabrication release, assembly support, board bring-up, and test.
- Strong practical understanding of PCB fabrication and assembly, including stackups, layout constraints, fabrication notes, component placement, inspection, DFM/DFA/DFT, and vendor feedback.
- Ability to make and explain board-level design trade-offs across electrical performance, manufacturability, reliability, thermal behavior, packaging, component availability, testability, cost, and schedule.
- Experience working with mechanical, firmware, software, systems, and manufacturing teams to integrate electrical hardware into a real product or system.
- Hands-on experience debugging PCBAs using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters, and test fixtures.