About the Joby:
Located in Northern California, the Joby Aviation team has been steadily working toward our goal of providing safe, affordable, fully electric air transportation that is accessible to everyone. Imagine an air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly and quickly carries you over the congestion below, giving you back that time you’d otherwise spend sitting in traffic. Technology has advanced to the point where designing and operating an all-electric aircraft is completely viable. Our team has been discreetly designing and flight testing this vehicle and is looking for talented individuals to see it through certification and high rate production.
About the Job:
Joby is seeking a talented electrical engineer with a high-speed digital focus to join our team designing all-electric aircraft. This engineer will work closely with mechanical, software, and other cross-functional teams. This is a hands-on position. Optimizing designs for reliability, weight, and efficiency will be a focus.
Responsibilities:
- Own the design of flight-critical high-speed digital designs, with opportunities in ethernet for fly-by-wire, display technology, FPGA/SoC boards, and more.
- Manage requirements, and review daily schematic and layout changes
- Provide constraints for a many-layer high-density high-speed board design, and supply layout and placement guidance
- Component selection for minimum mass and maximum reliability
- Investigate modern technologies for power and data transmission/management
- Write requirements, participate in DFMEAs + create and carry out test and validation plans
Required:
- Experience shipping products involving high-speed digital design, including networking, computing, or consumer-electronics
- Deep understanding of high-speed, high-density layout techniques, such as striplines, blind & buried vias, characteristic impedance, etc.
- Strong EE fundamentals, including familiarity with:
- Power conversion (linear and switching regulators)
- Signal conditioning and conversion (ADCs, filters)
- Discrete semiconductor design (FETs, BJTs, Diodes)
- Schematic capture and PCB design
- Experience with component selection
- Hands-on experience with building and debugging hardware
- Great communication skills
- B.S. in electrical engineering or related discipline
Desired Experience:
- M.S./Ph.D. in relevant discipline
- 2+ years of working experience in relevant industry
- Familiarity with Altium Designer
- Experience with Ethernet hardware
- Experience with interfaces such as SGMII, PCIe, I2C, SPI, and more
- Exposure to regulatory certification
- Design-for-reliability, including use of DFMEA and fault trees
- Designing for high EMI environments