Principal Aircraft Electrical Engineer Arlington, VA, Mountain View, CA, San Diego, CA

About Us

We’re a combat-tested group of engineers, operators, and entrepreneurs who believe America’s edge depends on autonomous airpower that’s trusted and deployable today not in 2040. Backed by tier-one investors, we’ve secured the runway — financial, regulatory, and literal — to move at startup speed while tackling a national-security mission that matters. We’ve structured the company for radical ownership : no silos, no “systems integrator” overhead, just tightly knit mission-focused IPTs that live and breathe the hardware and code they ship.

If you thrive where hard-tech ambition meets national-security urgency, you’ll build faster here than anywhere else. Let’s get after it.

Culture That Ships

• Strong Core Values, Startup Execution. Integrity, Service Before Self, Excellence, Honor, Courage, Commitment—powered by a bias for action and a “figure it out” mindset.
• Self-Starters Only. You’ll have clear objectives, a blank sheet of paper, and the trust (plus capital) to move fast. Bureaucracy stays out of your way.
• One Team, No Tourists. Whether you’re tuning a control law at 2 a.m. or heat-treating a Ti-6Al-4V spar, everyone sweats the details. We celebrate wins together and own failures together.

What’s In It for You

What You’ll Do

What You Bring

7 yrs aircraft electrical-power-system design.

Bonus Points

Why You’ll Love Working Here (Compensation and Benefits)

Base Salary : $145,000 to 225,000 USD

The salary range is an estimate based on compensation factors. Actual offers may vary. Equity grants are included in most full-time offers and are part of total compensation. Atropos offers comprehensive benefits for full-time employees, including :

We can share more compensation and benefits details during the hiring process.

Atropos is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to protected characteristics. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

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