Electrical Engineer
- Salary
- $120,000 - $140,000
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
**Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) to meet customer and regulatory requirements**
Who We Are
We are pioneering modular motion technologies to power the next generation of innovation for Industrial, Aerospace and Defense. If you're excited about disrupting legacy industries, and passionate about building next generation technology, let's chat!
Salient Motion's standard text
We are at the forefront of innovation, crafting exclusive motion control components that propel the industrial, aerospace, and defense sectors into the future.
A couple other things:
- We are open to relocating you
- We have great benefits
- We are well funded, and generating revenue
- We are located in beautiful Hawthorne, CA and just moved into a new large hangar facility
What you'll do:
- Electrical design, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, and documentation
- Using Altium to design board layouts according to given requirements
- Develop and generate work instruction packages for manufacturing and test of circuit card assemblies
- Perform electrical evaluation and selection of instrumentation (temperature, pressure, position, etc.)
- Review test data and recommend changes to products and processes
- Assist in growing the team by interviewing potential candidates
What you need:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering; or other engineering degree
- 3+ years of electrical hardware design experience, including schematic capture and PCB layout
- Strong understanding of electric circuit design fundamentals and electrical engineering principles
- Familiarity with basic electronic lab equipment, such as: power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, and soldering irons
- Experience in creation of design verification test plans and test execution
What we have to offer:
We are not just building components. We are reshaping the future of the Aerospace and Defense component industry, which is a $300B+ market! Come join us and help build next generation systems that will make a massive impact at global scale.
- We offer competitive compensation: $120,000 to $140,000 base salary + equity
- Exceptional healthcare benefits, Medical is 100% covered by the company
- Flexible PTO
- 401K
- More to come!
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Altium
Rare in Salient Motion's other 13 open postings.
93% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Salient Motion's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Hardware Engineering
This role is one of 3 open in Hardware Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Embedded Systems (2 of 3), PCB Design (2 of 3), Simulink (2 of 3)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Power Electronics Engineer posted Oct 12
- Controls Engineer posted Aug 27
From the team and dates on Salient Motion's own job board.
Salary context
76 other open postings titled Electrical Engineer state a salary: median USD 105,000 to USD 150,000 a year.
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