Manager, Electrical Engineering, Design Assurance

About Neros Technologies Neros is a defense technology company that builds asymmetric systems to ensure the West’s strategic edge.

Neros Technologies

Building asymmetric systems that ensure the West's strategic edge.

Precision StrikeDefenseManufacturingand Drones

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neros.tech

201-500 employees

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Los Angeles

2023

Privately Held

22k LinkedIn followers

Raised $119.5M

• As the Manager of Electrical Engineer, Design Assurance at Neros, you will build
• and lead the design assurance function for our next generation airside and
• groundside platforms. You will own worst-case circuit analysis, signal and power
• integrity, derating and DFMEA alongside formal EV/DV verification, design and
• build the HIL stations and test fixtures those campaigns run on, and carry the
• results through industrialization with our NPI and Test organization. This is a
• hands-on leadership role: you will define the workflows and execute them
• yourself on hardware heading to volume, and you will hire, level, and develop
• the engineers who take them over.
• Build and lead the design assurance team, owning the hiring pipeline for the
• function: writing requisitions, sourcing and screening, running interview
• loops, making level decisions, and developing engineers once they are on
• board.
• Establish worst-case circuit analysis, component derating, and DFMEA as
• standard design practice, including methodology, templates, and the review
• criteria applied at every design gate.
• Own formal EV/DV verification for production electronics: test plans,
• procedures, reports, requirements traceability, and the gate criteria used at
• design review and release.
• Plan and personally execute engineering validation and design validation
• campaigns: functional, thermal, vibration, environmental, EMC/EMI
• pre-compliance, and power quality, alongside accelerated life testing.
• Design and build the test infrastructure these campaigns depend on, including
• hardware-in-the-loop stations, functional test fixtures, instrumented
• environmental setups, and automated data acquisition.
• Partner with NPI and Test through industrialization: land design-for-test
• coverage in the boards, transfer verification methods and limits into
• production test, and drive failures found in build, qualification, and the
• field back into design.
• 10+ years in electrical hardware engineering, with hands-on ownership of
• verification, validation, or qualification of complex mixed-signal and
• embedded electronics.
• Experience leading a team of engineers or technicians, formally or as a
• technical lead, including direct involvement in hiring: sourcing, screening,
• interviewing, leveling, and closing candidates.
• A track record of taking electronics through formal qualification (EV/DV or
• equivalent military, aerospace, or automotive programs) to production
• release, including authoring the test plans, procedures, reports, and
• requirements traceability.
• Hands-on experience with worst-case circuit analysis and component derating,
• applied as part of a design process rather than as a one-time deliverable.
• Signal integrity and power integrity analysis, with a track record of feeding
• those findings back into the design: stackup and impedance decisions,
• termination, decoupling and PDN changes. Analysis that closed the loop on a
• design, not analysis delivered as a standalone report.
• Board and system-level reliability methods: DFMEA, HALT/HASS, accelerated
• life testing, and derating verification. This is board-level reliability, not
• silicon or device-level reliability.
• Deep bench proficiency with oscilloscopes, spectrum and network analyzers,
• electronic loads and power analysis, environmental chambers, and vibration
• test equipment.
• Experience specifying and building test infrastructure: hardware-in-the-loop
• stations, functional test fixtures, and automated data acquisition, including
• the scripting behind them (Python or similar).
• Hands-on circuit design experience: schematics and boards you designed
• yourself, not only reviewed. Credible WCCA and SI/PI work depends on having
• done the design, and this role has to engage design engineers on failure
• mechanisms as a peer rather than as an auditor.
• Experience with EMC/EMI testing (pre-compliance and/or formal) and
• environmental test standards such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, DO-160, or
• equivalent commercial standards.
• Experience working with NPI, manufacturing, or contract manufacturers through
• a production ramp, including design-for-test and production test development.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to document rigorously and
• present verification status and risk crisply to program stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field.

Preferred

• Direct people-management experience: performance reviews, leveling decisions,
• and growth plans for engineers.
• Experience standing up a reliability, V&V, or design assurance function, test
• lab, or qualification process from scratch at a startup or small company,
• including making the first hires onto it.
• Experience taking a product from prototype through industrialization and
• volume ramp with a contract manufacturer.
• An automotive or aerospace background specifically. Both run formal
• qualification against real environmental standards at production volume,
• which is the closest analogue to what this role has to build here. UAV,
• robotics and defense hardware are also relevant.
• Statistical methods for test: measurement uncertainty, design of experiments,
• and sampling strategies.
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary
• based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training,
• critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity
• grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

• Equity grants