About the job

Knightwerx is looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to join our growing R&D team. In this position, you will work within a multi-disciplinary engineering team to develop small unmanned electric aircraft from the ground up. We operate in a fast-paced development environment that balances innovation and ingenuity with practicality and reliability. You will be involved in every aspect of the engineering process from clean-sheet design and prototyping to flight testing and manufacturing.

Requirements

· Must have US citizenship

· On-site, collaborative work environment

Work Experience

· Bachelor's or higher degree in relevant engineering discipline

· 2 or more years experience designing and developing electrical hardware

· Experience with full product development lifecycle from concept development through manufacturing

Attributes

· Innovative, hands-on, and practical

· Organized and disciplined

· Goal driven, learns from mistakes, and closes the loop on the design process

· Communicates well through discussion and documentation

· Works well with others to develop plans and solve problems

Primary Duties and Tasks

· Owns design, development, and test of the avionics hardware including digital and analog circuits, power electronics, sensors, and RF links

· Design and develop clean-sheet circuit boards including requirement definition, schematic design, board layout, board bring up, and trouble shooting

· Develop wiring harnesses and associated documentation

· Design and fabricate R&D hardware/test setups and support flight testing as necessary

· Work with vendors to fabricate or procure hardware

Skills and Expertise

· Experience with circuit design, fabrication, and testing

· Experience with industry standard design tools (Altium, Kicad, Eagle, etc)

· Knowledgeable in common protocols (CAN, UART, I2C, SPI, etc)

· Demonstrated knowledge of power electronics, RF links, and embedded systems

· Ability to prototype and rework electronics hardware including SMD soldering, wiring harness fabrication, etc. 

About Knightwerx

Knightwerx is a start-up company that was born to be game changing. From its inception, Knightwerx has focused on solving real world, mission critical problems for the government and civilian sectors. Our approach is to seek top experts for every position who are not only willing to make a lasting impact but to drive innovation and enhance the company’s direction. As such, we are not business leaders who build drones or drone builders running a business. We are both.