{"id":3972842,"url":"https://alion.io/job/red-cell-partners-staff-electrical-engineer","title":"Staff Electrical Engineer","company":{"id":3121,"name":"Red Cell Partners","domain":"redcellpartners.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/red-cell-partners","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":true,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Altium Designer","optional":false},{"name":"KiCad","optional":false},{"name":"MIL-STD-461","optional":false},{"name":"OrCAD","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-09T15:05:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-09","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T16:51:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\nRed Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.\nAbout Dash 2 Dynamics (D2)\nD2 is building a new class of advanced communications systems powered by the integration of plasma physics, radio-frequency engineering, and novel antenna architectures. Our work is aimed at overcoming fundamental limits in conventional antennas and enabling communications capabilities that are smaller, more wideband, and more resilient in demanding environments. We are taking breakthrough technology from the laboratory through rapid prototyping, rigorous modeling and test, product qualification, and operational deployment.\nThis is an opportunity to join a hands-on, multidisciplinary team working at the edge of electromagnetics, materials, electronics, plasma science, and mission-focused product development. The systems we are developing will reshape how defense, aerospace, and commercial users communicate across contested and congested RF environments.\nAbout the Role\nDash 2 Dynamics (D2) is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead mixed-signal electrical design for the electronics that enable our plasma-enhanced antenna and communications systems. You will own designs from schematic capture through PCB layout, with an emphasis on the digital, control, sensing, and power circuitry that surrounds the RF chain, and help shape the build strategy that takes hardware from benchtop prototypes to qualification-ready units. Working hand-in-hand with our RF subject matter expert, you will also run integration and test: bringing up boards, verifying performance, and closing the loop between design intent and measured system behavior.\nWhat You Will Do\nElectrical Architecture & Technical Leadership\n Architect a new kind of radio front end. Define the mixed-signal backbone (digital control, embedded interfaces, sensing, data conversion, and power) that turns a plasma-enabled aperture into a controllable, field-ready communications system.\nSet the technical bar. As the senior electrical voice on a small, fast-moving team, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with our RF subject matter expert to draw clean digital/RF boundaries that scale across bands, operating modes, and product variants.\nCircuit & Hardware Development\nDesign the electronics that put plasma under command. Build microcontroller- and FPGA-based control, data converters, precision sensing, and the drive and bias circuitry that ignites, sustains, and modulates the plasma elements at the heart of our antennas.\nOwn your boards end to end. Take designs from schematic capture through PCB layout, designing in signal and power integrity, thermal margin, and testability while engineering out noise coupling, EMI, arcing, parasitics, and transient stress.\nPrototype, Test & Troubleshooting\nBe first to see new hardware come alive. Bring up and debug first-of-their-kind prototypes with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and automated data capture, chasing root cause across electrical, plasma, and electromechanical behavior.\nRun the integration and test campaigns that prove it works. Plan and execute tests that retire the biggest technical risks, correlating circuit models and bench data with plasma, thermal, and RF performance alongside our RF lead.\nIntegration, Qualification & Transition\nShape how D2 builds hardware. Help define fabrication and assembly approach, prototype build sequencing, design verification, and configuration control as breakthrough technology moves from the lab bench toward qualification.\n Carry it across the finish line. Work with mechanical, software, and systems engineers and with PCB, component, and test partners, designing for EMC (e.g., MIL-STD-461) and defense qualification on the path to repeatable production.\nQualifications\nRequired\nDegree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and directly relevant experience, with typically 6-10+ years of relevant engineering work that demonstrates technical ownership of complex, cross-disciplinary mixed-signal systems, from architecture and interface trade-offs through schematic capture, layout, bring-up, integration, and verification.\nDemonstrated expertise designing, laying out, building, and debugging printed circuit boards, with proficiency in a professional schematic and PCB environment such as Altium Designer, KiCad, or OrCAD.\nStrong fundamentals in mixed-signal and digital design, including microcontroller or FPGA interfaces, data converters, serial buses, power electronics, controls, instrumentation, signal integrity, and power integrity.\nHands-on proficiency with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, power supplies, electronic loads, probes, and safe laboratory practices.\nDemonstrated ability to lead design reviews, mentor engineers, communicate technical risk, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.\nAbility to meet requirements associated with work on U.S. government and national-security programs.\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with RF power amplifiers, impedance matching, high-voltage supplies, pulsed-power circuits, plasma systems, or electrically small antennas, sufficient to work effectively with RF specialists.\nExperience with FPGA or embedded firmware development, or close collaboration with firmware engineers on hardware/software bring-up.\nFamiliarity with electromagnetic compatibility practices and standards such as MIL-STD-461.\nExperience with embedded control, data acquisition, automation scripts, or software-defined radio interfaces.\nExperience supporting design verification, environmental qualification, SBIR/STTR programs, or defense product development.\nActive U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.\nSalary Range: $150,000-$175,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.\nOur Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation):\nFor full-time roles\nCareer track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows \n100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.\nPaid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.\nUnlimited PTO, with management approval.\nOpportunities for professional development and continued learning.\nOptional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.\nMental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. \nCost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux. \nWe’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.\nApplicant Data Disclosure \nBy submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC (\"Red Cell\") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, \"Hiring Platforms\"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes: \nManaging and administering your application throughout the hiring process; \nVerifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases; \nIdentifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories. \nApplications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact . \nRed Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. 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