Electrical Engineer

- 2-5+ years working across electrical hardware from power, embedded, to systems integration

- Hands-on experience with 48V+ systems. You've built and tested high-voltage circuits, not just reviewed drawings

- Comfortable with embedded control electronics like microcontrollers, sensing, telemetry, and fault handling

- You've designed and fabricated wire harnesses for real systems

- Multi-layer PCB design, IC selection, and on-board thermal management

- Proficient in Altium Designer, SPICE, and MATLAB/Simulink

- Broad curiosity. You're as comfortable debugging a harness as reading a power schematic

Where you probably come from: Robotics labs, EV companies, aerospace hardware teams, defense programs, or Formula SAE Electric. You don't have to be a power specialist, but you need to have built real things at voltage.

Not a fit if: Your experience is exclusively low-voltage microcontroller or PCB work, or you've never physically built and tested hardware above 48V.

- Experience with laser diode driving or directed energy power systems

- Background in EMI/EMC design and shielding

- Familiarity with MIL-STD standards and ITAR compliance

- Experience with long-duration system deployment in harsh environments

- Active security clearance or ability to obtain one

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or related field.

What you've built matters more than where you went to school.

- Extreme bias for action. You'd rather build a prototype tomorrow than model it for a month

- Rigorous testing mindset. You characterize your own systems before the field does

- Comfortable with ambiguity and fast, constantly iterating in a startup environment

- Your brain only releases dopamine when you're building

- You debug from first principles, not Stack Overflow

- Clear communicator across mechanical, electrical, optical, and ML teams

- Self-directed. You identify what needs to happen next and do it without being told

Why Join Aurelius Systems?

- Build more in 1 month than most engineers build in 1 year. We field test weekly. Your work goes downrange, not into a filing cabinet.

- Career velocity is real. Erick Brito went from Founding Robotics Engineer to Lead in 12 months. At ~10 engineers, there are no layers between you and impact... or between you and your next title.

- Work on a problem that actually matters. Small, cheap drones are changing warfare. Our laser systems are the asymmetric answer.

Think infinite magazine, cost-per-shot near zero, scalable to every base, border, facility, truck and infrastructure.

- Join the densest defense startup ecosystem in the country. California is where the next generation of defense companies are being built. You'll be in the room with the people reshaping how America builds weapons.

Core hours are Monday through Friday, 9 to 6. When we're sprinting toward a demo or field test, the team ramps up - nights, weekends, whatever it takes to ship.

When the sprint lands, we ramp down. We don't manufacture intensity for show.

- Competitive salary + equity

- United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Flexible 18 days PTO + 5 sick days

- Travel to field test events and range days

- Covered daily lunches and office snacks + drinks

- E-bike / scooter stipend ( Up to $500)

- Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work

This role requires access to export-controlled information or items that require "U.S. Person" status. As defined by U.S. law, individuals who are any one of the following are considered to be a "U.S.

Person": (1) U.S. citizens, (2) legal permanent residents (a.k.a. green card holders), and (3) certain protected classes of asylees and refugees, as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).