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Powerus lists this Electronics Engineer opportunity in rock hill, South Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About Powerus
Powerus is building a next-generation American autonomous systems platform designed to move, protect, and sustain critical assets in high-consequence environments. The company combines advanced autonomy, manufacturing capability, operational expertise, and strategic acquisitions to support defense, national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial operations globally.
Mission
Our mission is to deliver resilient autonomous technologies that strengthen national security, improve operational safety, and expand the capabilities of organizations operating in complex environments.
Why Join Powerus
An autonomous aircraft is a stack of electronics that has to survive being thrown around in the cold at altitude and still be buildable a thousand times over. Between the architecture on a whiteboard and the box that flies sits a large amount of unglamorous, decisive work: choosing the part that will still exist in two years, finding the noise coupling nobody predicted, and proving on a bench that the thing actually does what the requirement said.
This role lives in that gap. Powerus is scaling production of unmanned platforms across North Carolina and California, and we need engineers who are as comfortable with an oscilloscope as with a datasheet.
Position Overview
Powerus is hiring an Electronics Engineer to design, build, and validate electronic hardware for our unmanned platforms. You will work across analog and digital circuits - sensing, conditioning, power, and interfaces - take designs from concept through bring-up, and prove them on the bench and in the aircraft. You will own component selection, contribute to board design, write the tests that qualify your work, and stay involved through manufacturing so the design that ships is the design that was reviewed.
Key Responsibilities
Design analog and digital circuits for sensing, signal conditioning, power, and interface functions
Capture schematics, contribute to board layout, and drive designs through review to release
Bring up new hardware, characterize performance, and debug to root cause
Select components against electrical requirements, lifecycle, availability, and NDAA and Blue UAS constraints
Build test fixtures and write procedures that make a design's performance measurable and repeatable
Characterize behavior across temperature, voltage, and load, and document the margins
Investigate noise, EMI, grounding, and interference problems on integrated hardware
Support integration with embedded software, mechanical packaging, and vehicle systems
Produce and maintain schematics, BOMs, test records, and revision-controlled documentation
Work with manufacturing and assembly partners on buildability, yield, and process feedback
Qualifications
Must be located in the United States, within commuting distance of Rock Hill, SC, and able to work on-site
Degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Solid grounding in analog and digital circuit design and the ability to reason about a circuit from its schematic
Practical bench skill - instrumentation, measurement technique, soldering, and rework
Experience taking a circuit from idea through a working, characterized prototype
U.S. Person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)); this role involves access to ITAR- and EAR-controlled technical data
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with UAV, aerospace, robotics, instrumentation, or other embedded hardware
Familiarity with an ECAD tool such as Altium Designer, Cadence Allegro, or KiCad
Exposure to sensor interfaces, data acquisition, or mixed-signal design
Experience with EMI, grounding, and shielding on integrated systems
Comfort scripting test automation in Python or a similar language
Experience carrying a design through environmental or compliance testing
What We Look For
We are looking for engineers who trust measurements over intuition and are curious enough to keep pulling on a strange result. The people who do well here document what they found so the next person does not repeat the investigation, and they would rather characterize a design properly than declare it finished.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Powerus is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and mission-driven workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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