Lead Electrical Engineer
Amca
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
El Segundo, CA, USA
USD 150k-200k / year
Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.
To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.
Overview:
You will be a senior technical contributor on Amca's electrical engineering team, owning the design, build, or test of flight hardware within a defined electrical discipline — such as power electronics, analog or digital circuit design, avionics systems, or qualification and acceptance testing. You will work closely with the Electrical Engineering Manager and cross-functional teams to take hardware from concept through qualification and into production. This is a deeply hands-on role for an engineer who thrives on hard technical problems, takes full ownership of their work, and is ready to grow into broader leadership over time.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical lead for a defined electrical discipline, owning design decisions and outcomes end-to-end
- Execute and oversee detailed design work including schematics, component selection, de-rating analyses, and PCBA layout
- Drive hardware from bench prototype through qualification and production handoff, leveraging Amca's in-house R&D lab and protoshop
- Lead or support qualification campaigns including functional, environmental, and acceptance testing per DO-160, MIL-STD, and applicable aerospace standards
- Spearhead root cause investigations in development, production, and test; own corrective actions through resolution
- Ensure designs are optimized from day one for reliability, manufacturability, and cost
- Provide technical mentorship and informal guidance to less experienced engineers on the team
- Collaborate closely with mechanical, software, and build engineering to deliver integrated hardware systems
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to raising the technical bar across the electrical engineering function
- Support customer-facing engagements and program reviews as a subject matter expert in your discipline
Qualifications:
- Substantial experience in electrical engineering for aerospace or defense hardware, with a strong track record taking products from concept through flight qualification and into production
- Deep technical expertise in at least one electrical discipline — such as power electronics, analog or digital circuit design, avionics systems, PCBA layout, or environmental qualification and acceptance testing — with working fluency across adjacent areas
- Hands-on and lab-comfortable; expected to be at the bench debugging hardware, not just at a schematic editor
- Strong command of engineering first principles across power systems, signal integrity, and electromagnetic compatibility; proven ability to simplify requirements and cut complexity
- Familiarity with DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and other aerospace qualification and certification frameworks
- Independent, direct, and action-oriented; takes full ownership and thrives with minimal oversight
- Nascent leadership instincts — comfortable informally guiding peers and ready to grow into broader responsibility over time
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