Manager, Electrical Engineering, Design Assurance

About the Position

Manager, Electrical Engineering, Design Assurance

Location: Torrance, California, United States

At Neros, we are a defense technology company dedicated to rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. Our mission is to design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are rigorously tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and focused on closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

Responsibilities

• Build and Lead the Design Assurance Team: Own the hiring pipeline for the function, including writing requisitions, sourcing and screening candidates, running interview loops, making level decisions, and developing engineers once they are on board.
• Establish Standard Design Practices: Implement worst-case circuit analysis, component derating, and DFMEA as standard design practices, including methodology, templates, and review criteria applied at every design gate.
• Formal EV/DV Verification: Own formal EV/DV verification for production electronics, including test plans, procedures, reports, requirements traceability, and gate criteria used at design review and release.
• Execute Validation Campaigns: Plan and personally execute engineering validation and design validation campaigns, including functional, thermal, vibration, environmental, EMC/EMI pre-compliance, and power quality, alongside accelerated life testing.
• Design and Build Test Infrastructure: Design and build the test infrastructure required for these campaigns, including hardware-in-the-loop stations, functional test fixtures, instrumented environmental setups, and automated data acquisition.
• Partner with NPI and Test: Collaborate through industrialization to 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.

Requirements

• 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, 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.
• Board and system-level reliability methods: DFMEA, HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing, and derating verification.
• 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, including the scripting behind them (Python or similar).
• Hands-on circuit design experience: schematics and boards you designed yourself.
• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.
• Statistical methods for test: measurement uncertainty, design of experiments, and sampling strategies.
• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: $172,500 - $297,500 USD
• Equity Grants: Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

About the Company

Neros is a defense technology company dedicated to rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.