Avionics & Electrical Engineer

The role

We’re early, small, and moving quickly. Joining now means you'll have a direct role in shaping the foundation of Haast — our culture, engineering process, testing discipline, partner relationships, and the path from prototype to a real medical logistics network.

We’re looking for high-agency people who want ownership, urgency, and system-level impact from day one.

Haast is seeking an Electrical Engineer to own the avionics, power-distribution, communications, and electrical integration architecture of our aircraft.

You will design reliable electrical systems for high-power electric VTOL aircraft, translate system requirements into schematics and harness documentation, select and validate components, and support aircraft through assembly, ground testing, and flight testing. This role combines electrical design, systems engineering, hands-on integration, and rapid troubleshooting.

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Avionics & Electrical Engineer

Haast Autonomous, Oregon

The role

We’re looking for high-agency people who want ownership, urgency, and system-level impact from day one.

Haast is seeking an Electrical Engineer to own the avionics, power-distribution, communications, and electrical integration architecture of our aircraft.

What you will do

Responsibilities

Design the aircraft’s avionics and electrical power architecture
Develop system block diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, connector pinouts, and harness drawings
Size and select wiring, connectors, fuses, contactors, power-distribution components, regulators, and protective devices
Integrate flight controllers, propulsion systems, batteries, sensors, radios, navigation systems, actuators, payload systems, and onboard computers
Design electrical interfaces for high-voltage propulsion and low-voltage avionics systems
Develop grounding, shielding, isolation, and EMI/EMC strategies
Perform voltage-drop, current, thermal, power-budget, and failure-mode analyses
Define electrical requirements, interface-control documents, and acceptance-test procedures
Design or oversee the development of custom PCBs, interface boards, power-distribution boards, and test equipment
Conduct bench testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, ground testing, and flight-test support
Diagnose electrical, avionics, communications, and power-system failures
Work closely with mechanical, aerospace, controls, software, manufacturing, and flight-test engineers
Review technician-built harnesses and electrical assemblies for compliance with engineering documentation
Manage component obsolescence, lead-time risks, design changes, and configuration control
Build scalable electrical design, verification, and documentation processes

What success looks like

The aircraft electrical architecture is safe, understandable, testable, and maintainable
Power and avionics systems operate reliably throughout ground and flight testing
Interfaces are thoroughly documented and electrical changes are configuration-controlled
Failures are diagnosed quickly and addressed through durable design improvements
Prototype electrical systems evolve into repeatable production-ready assemblies

We care more about agency, ownership, taste, and evidence that you can build than whether you match every bullet point. If you have worked on aircraft, drones, robots, vehicles, rockets, or other hard technical systems and want to help build something from the ground up, we want to hear from you.

Avionics & Electrical Engineer

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