Senior Electronics Design Engineer (80 - 100%)

Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 180+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 7 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.

We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.

In this role you will be working in the electronics team, collaborating closely with colleagues in the systems and embedded software team to develop overall solutions. The team's goal is to deliver high quality electronics and master all building blocks that make up the electronics systems of drones and ground stations now and in the future.

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Responsibilities

• Design high quality electronics (concept, component choices, schematics capture and PCB layout) using Altium Designer 365 to improve on and expand the Wingtra product line-up
• Bringup, troubleshoot and rework newly designed prototypes and verify designs to ensure functionality and high reliability
• Contribute to electronics architecture definition and technology decisions
• Coordinate closely with mechanical design and software teams to align on requirements and optimise for product performance
• Contribute to development of company internal best practices in electronics development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 6+ years experience in developing complex electronic systems
• Strong understanding of analogue and digital circuit design concepts
• Strong PCB layout skills to design high density, high speed, rigid and flex PCBs
• Practical know-how in an electronics design tool (preferably Altium Designer)
• Practical knowhow in bring-up, troubleshooting and validation of PCBAs
• Teamplayer with excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English
• Excellent general cognitive ability and problem solving skills
• Honest, humble, and self-motivated

Plus

• Background in RF design and related regulatory environments
• Experience with robotics or drones specifically

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If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.