Staff Electrical Engineer
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead mixed-signal electrical design for the electronics behind plasma-enhanced antenna and communications systems. You will architect the digital control, sensing, data conversion and power backbone, own boards from schematic to PCB layout, bring up and debug prototypes with lab equipment, run integration and test campaigns, and help define build strategy toward defense qualification including EMC.
Requirements
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience, with typically 6–10+ years of relevant experience
- Expertise designing and debugging PCBs with Altium Designer, KiCad or OrCAD
- Strong mixed-signal and digital design fundamentals
- Hands-on proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and lab equipment
- Ability to lead design reviews and mentor engineers
- Ability to meet requirements for U.S. government and national-security programs
Responsibilities
- Architect the mixed-signal backbone of the radio front end
- Lead design reviews and mentor engineers
- Design microcontroller- and FPGA-based control, data converters, sensing and plasma drive and bias circuitry
- Take designs from schematic capture through PCB layout
- Bring up and debug prototypes using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and automated data capture
- Plan and execute integration and test campaigns
- Define fabrication, assembly, verification and configuration control approach
- Design for EMC and defense qualification with cross-functional partners
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K, FSA and equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux