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Albers Aerospace is seeking a highly motivated Senior Electronics Engineer to support the detailed design, development, integration, and testing of advanced electronic systems for defense applications. This position will focus on mixed-signal electronics, embedded control circuitry, power management, and safety-critical electronic systems, including Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs) and related technologies.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in analog and digital circuit design, printed circuit board (PCB) development, electronic component selection, and hardware verification. This individual will be responsible for electrical designs throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping through qualification and production transition.
The position requires a hands-on engineer capable of moving quickly from concept to prototype to fieldable system, collaborating across multiple disciplines, balancing analytical rigor with practical execution.
This position operates in a fast-paced, rapid-development environment where engineers are expected to make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, rapidly mature designs, solve difficult integration problems, and balance performance, schedule, cost, producibility, and risk.
Essential Job Functions:
- Design, develop, and validate analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronic circuits for advanced defense applications.
- Lead electrical design activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, circuit simulation, and design documentation.
- Develop embedded electronic architectures incorporating microcontrollers, programmable logic devices, digital interfaces, and supporting circuitry.
- Design and analyze power management, voltage regulation, energy storage, switching, signal conditioning, and monitoring circuits.
- Support the development of safety-critical electronic systems, including ESADs, electronic interlocks, built-in-test functionality, and fault-monitoring circuitry.
- Perform circuit analysis and simulation to evaluate performance, component tolerances, electrical margins, and environmental considerations.
- Develop hardware prototypes and conduct bench-level testing, debugging, and design verification.
- Define electrical requirements, interface specifications, verification procedures, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain electrical technical data packages, including schematics, PCB fabrication and assembly files, bills of materials, interface documentation, and test procedures.
- Support hardware integration with mechanical assemblies, sensors, actuators, and embedded software.
- Lead electrical design reviews, troubleshoot hardware failures, and perform root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
- Support environmental qualification, production acceptance testing, and transition of electronic designs into manufacturing.
- Collaborate with systems, mechanical, software, manufacturing, quality, and test engineering teams to meet technical and program objectives.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and engineering technicians.
- Provide technical support for the selection and procurement of these electrical components, to include working with partner suppliers throughout the life cycle.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent experience in a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, or testing electronic hardware.
- Demonstrated experience in analog and digital circuit design, including mixed-signal electronic systems.
- Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB design using Altium Designer, Cadence, or equivalent ECAD tools.
- Experience with circuit simulation and analysis tools such as LTspice, PSpice, or MATLAB.
- Strong understanding of electronic components, including operational amplifiers, comparators, ADCs/DACs, MOSFETs, voltage regulators, and digital logic devices.
- Experience with microcontroller-based or programmable logic-based hardware and associated digital interfaces.
- Experience with PCB bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and design verification testing.
- Proficiency with laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, function generators, and power supplies.
- Ability to interpret electrical requirements, develop technical documentation, and communicate engineering results.
- Experience supporting hardware development from prototype through qualification or production.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple technical priorities.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience developing electronic systems for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications.
- Experience with Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs), fuze electronics, or other safety-critical electronic systems.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-882.
- Experience with FPGA, CPLD, or microcontroller-based control architectures.
- Experience with embedded C/C++, Python, or MATLAB for hardware interfacing, testing, and data analysis.
- Experience with power switching, capacitor charging, energy storage, and high-voltage power electronics.
- Experience with sensor interfaces, signal conditioning, and precision timing circuitry.
- Knowledge of design for manufacturability (DFM), design for testability (DFT), and component derating practices.
- Experience developing automated test equipment, test fixtures, and production acceptance procedures.
- Experience with formal design verification, qualification testing, failure analysis, and engineering change control.
- Familiarity with RF electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, and EMI/EMC design practices.
- Active U.S. Government security clearance.
Experience with or working knowledge of tools commonly used in electronics design, analysis, development, and verification, including:
- PCB Design: Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, or equivalent.
- Circuit Analysis: LTspice, PSpice, MATLAB.
- Embedded Electronics: Microcontrollers, FPGAs, CPLDs, ADCs, DACs, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN.
- Analog Electronics: Amplifiers, comparators, filters, signal conditioning, voltage references, and power management.
- Test Equipment: Oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, electronic loads, power supplies, and logic analyzers.
- Documentation: Electrical schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface control documents, test procedures, and engineering technical data packages.
Note: The duties and responsibilities described on this document are not necessarily a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the teammate from time to time; and the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
Reasonable Accommodations
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Albers Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate. All employment decisions are based upon qualifications, merit, and business need.
Albers Aerospace is seeking a highly motivated Senior Electronics Engineer to support the detailed design, development, integration, and testing of advanced electronic systems for defense applications. This position will focus on mixed-signal electronics, embedded control circuitry, power management, and safety-critical electronic systems, including Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs) and related technologies.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in analog and digital circuit design, printed circuit board (PCB) development, electronic component selection, and hardware verification. This individual will be responsible for electrical designs throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping through qualification and production transition.
The position requires a hands-on engineer capable of moving quickly from concept to prototype to fieldable system, collaborating across multiple disciplines, balancing analytical rigor with practical execution.
This position operates in a fast-paced, rapid-development environment where engineers are expected to make sound technical decisions with incomplete information, rapidly mature designs, solve difficult integration problems, and balance performance, schedule, cost, producibility, and risk.
Essential Job Functions:
- Design, develop, and validate analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronic circuits for advanced defense applications.
- Lead electrical design activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, circuit simulation, and design documentation.
- Develop embedded electronic architectures incorporating microcontrollers, programmable logic devices, digital interfaces, and supporting circuitry.
- Design and analyze power management, voltage regulation, energy storage, switching, signal conditioning, and monitoring circuits.
- Support the development of safety-critical electronic systems, including ESADs, electronic interlocks, built-in-test functionality, and fault-monitoring circuitry.
- Perform circuit analysis and simulation to evaluate performance, component tolerances, electrical margins, and environmental considerations.
- Develop hardware prototypes and conduct bench-level testing, debugging, and design verification.
- Define electrical requirements, interface specifications, verification procedures, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop and maintain electrical technical data packages, including schematics, PCB fabrication and assembly files, bills of materials, interface documentation, and test procedures.
- Support hardware integration with mechanical assemblies, sensors, actuators, and embedded software.
- Lead electrical design reviews, troubleshoot hardware failures, and perform root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
- Support environmental qualification, production acceptance testing, and transition of electronic designs into manufacturing.
- Collaborate with systems, mechanical, software, manufacturing, quality, and test engineering teams to meet technical and program objectives.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and engineering technicians.
- Provide technical support for the selection and procurement of these electrical components, to include working with partner suppliers throughout the life cycle.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent experience in a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, or testing electronic hardware.
- Demonstrated experience in analog and digital circuit design, including mixed-signal electronic systems.
- Proficiency in schematic capture and PCB design using Altium Designer, Cadence, or equivalent ECAD tools.
- Experience with circuit simulation and analysis tools such as LTspice, PSpice, or MATLAB.
- Strong understanding of electronic components, including operational amplifiers, comparators, ADCs/DACs, MOSFETs, voltage regulators, and digital logic devices.
- Experience with microcontroller-based or programmable logic-based hardware and associated digital interfaces.
- Experience with PCB bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and design verification testing.
- Proficiency with laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, function generators, and power supplies.
- Ability to interpret electrical requirements, develop technical documentation, and communicate engineering results.
- Experience supporting hardware development from prototype through qualification or production.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple technical priorities.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain a U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience developing electronic systems for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications.
- Experience with Electronic Safe and Arm Devices (ESADs), fuze electronics, or other safety-critical electronic systems.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-882.
- Experience with FPGA, CPLD, or microcontroller-based control architectures.
- Experience with embedded C/C++, Python, or MATLAB for hardware interfacing, testing, and data analysis.
- Experience with power switching, capacitor charging, energy storage, and high-voltage power electronics.
- Experience with sensor interfaces, signal conditioning, and precision timing circuitry.
- Knowledge of design for manufacturability (DFM), design for testability (DFT), and component derating practices.
- Experience developing automated test equipment, test fixtures, and production acceptance procedures.
- Experience with formal design verification, qualification testing, failure analysis, and engineering change control.
- Familiarity with RF electronics, electromagnetic compatibility, and EMI/EMC design practices.
- Active U.S. Government security clearance.
Experience with or working knowledge of tools commonly used in electronics design, analysis, development, and verification, including:
- PCB Design: Altium Designer, Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, or equivalent.
- Circuit Analysis: LTspice, PSpice, MATLAB.
- Embedded Electronics: Microcontrollers, FPGAs, CPLDs, ADCs, DACs, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN.
- Analog Electronics: Amplifiers, comparators, filters, signal conditioning, voltage references, and power management.
- Test Equipment: Oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, electronic loads, power supplies, and logic analyzers.
- Documentation: Electrical schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface control documents, test procedures, and engineering technical data packages.
Note: The duties and responsibilities described on this document are not necessarily a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the teammate from time to time; and the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.
Reasonable Accommodations
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Albers Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate. All employment decisions are based upon qualifications, merit, and business need.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior electronics engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering or a closely related discipline
- Five or more years of hands-on hardware design and verification experience
- Proficiency in PCB design tools such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
- Experience with embedded systems development including microcontroller firmware integration
- Familiarity with signal integrity analysis, EMC compliance testing, and design-for-manufacturability
- Active or eligible security clearance for roles in defense and government contracting
Tips for Your Senior Electronics Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to hardware domains
Hiring managers in defense and aerospace scan for domain-specific keywords like schematic capture, FPGA design, or signal integrity analysis. Mirror the exact terminology from each job posting in your resume bullets, because applicant tracking systems filter on tool and domain names before a human reads your file.
Quantify design outcomes not just responsibilities
Replace vague statements like 'led PCB design' with measurable results such as reducing board layer count by a specific amount or cutting power consumption on a product revision. Senior-level roles expect evidence that your engineering decisions produced tangible outcomes, not just that you performed tasks.
Filter openings by required clearance level
Many senior electronics engineer roles in defense and government contracting require an active security clearance, which can eliminate candidates mid-process. Sort openings by clearance requirement early so you target roles you can actually start within a realistic timeline.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior electronics engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a technical portfolio with schematics
Many hiring teams for senior electronics engineers request work samples before or during the interview loop. Compile two or three representative projects showing your schematic, layout decisions, and test results, redacting any proprietary details, so you can share them quickly when asked.
Negotiate start dates around tape-out schedules
In semiconductor and ASIC roles, teams structure headcount around tape-out windows. Asking your recruiter where the team sits in the design cycle signals product awareness and gives you leverage to negotiate a start date that lets you contribute from day one rather than joining mid-crunch.
Senior Electronics Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior electronics engineers?
The companies hiring the most senior electronics engineers right now include Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Tesla, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Colorado, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Defense contractors, semiconductor firms, and medical device manufacturers consistently account for the highest volume of senior-level postings.
How many senior electronics engineer jobs are remote?
About 20% of senior electronics engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, which is lower than most software roles because hardware work often requires lab access, prototype handling, and in-person bring-up sessions. Sub-areas like firmware integration, simulation, and documentation review tend to offer the most remote flexibility within the discipline.
How do you become a senior electronics engineer?
You typically start with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, then build several years of hands-on experience in a hardware-focused role covering schematic design, PCB layout, and bring-up and validation. Progressing to senior level requires owning complete design cycles end to end, mentoring junior engineers, and demonstrating that your decisions shaped a product's performance or reliability in measurable ways.
How do you get hired as a senior electronics engineer with limited experience?
Focus on roles at smaller companies or startups where engineers own broader design scope earlier, which builds the full-cycle experience that senior titles require. A portfolio showing personal or open-source hardware projects with documented design decisions, test results, and iterations can offset a shorter professional history when your resume reaches a hiring engineer rather than an automated screen.
What does the senior electronics engineer interview process look like?
The process usually starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical phone interview covering fundamentals like analog circuit analysis, power supply design, or signal integrity. A take-home design exercise or work sample review is common at the senior level. Final rounds typically include a loop with the hardware team, a systems architect, and sometimes a hiring manager focused on cross-functional collaboration and project ownership.
Where can I find and apply to senior electronics engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to senior electronics engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the same place, without having to track openings across multiple sources.
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