Job Description
ABOUT HEAVISIDE INDUSTRIES Heaviside Industries builds multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces. While modern warfare has rapidly evolved with the proliferation of unmanned systems, hyper-precise munitions in contested environments are the future of the battlefield. Economical precision strike capabilities are critical to U.S. and allied war efforts, enabling successful defeat of enemy military assets and infrastructure. Heaviside builds precision munitions designed to operate in GPS-denied and spectrum-jammed battlefields—where traditional systems degrade or fail—without inflated prices or sacrifice to performance. All engineering and manufacturing is conducted in-house in Heaviside’s Los Angeles, CA headquarters and Oslo, Norway office. Heaviside is backed by Interlagos, Menlo Ventures, Flume Ventures, Cantos, Anorak Ventures, and Ravelin Ventures. WHAT YOU WILL DO Design, lay out and bring up mission-grade PCBAs — Navigation computers, sensor boards, power systems, RF front-end and seeker electronics Own schematic capture, component selection and DFM-aware PCB layout for high-density mixed-signal designs in tight mechanical envelopes Drive power architecture: battery and ordnance-grade power, DC-DC conversion and thermal management Design for signal integrity and EMI/EMC compliance from day one; partner with mechanical to get grounding, shielding and connector strategies right Specify, integrate, and bring up sensors and modules — IMUs, GNSS, baro, mag, RF transceivers and motor drivers Lead board bring-up side-by-side with firmware and embedded software Run qualification and environmental testing: thermal, vibration, shock, EMI/EMC, HALT Own component obsolescence, second-source strategy and the relationship between the BOM and our manufacturing line WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering or related field 5+ years designing PCBAs that shipped — flight, automotive, robotics or comparable mission-critical hardware Expert with a modern EDA tool (Altium, Cadence Allegro, KiCad or equivalent) Strong fundamentals in analog, digital, power and high-speed design Hands-on experience with board bring-up tools — oscilloscope, logic analyzer, network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, thermal camera Comfortable reading firmware and partnering with FW/embedded engineers to debug across the boundary Bonus: RF design, high-speed digital (DDR, PCIe, MIPI), experience with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, DO-160 or comparable standards, experience with ordnance or pyrotechnic interfaces U.S. Person as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62)