Radar PCB Engineer

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• Role: Engineering / Electrical
• Experience: Any (new grads ok)
• Visa: US citizen/visa only
• Skills: PCB design, Altium

Founding PCB Engineer - Radar Seekers for Interceptors

What we do

Vernius builds 24 GHz phased array radar seekers for interceptors that defend against Shahed-class strike drones, the threat hitting Ukraine every night and increasingly facing the US and its allies. In your first 30 days, you will finalize the PCB layout for our V2 interceptor radar seeker; by day 90, you will be overseeing the first batch of 1,000 boards through the assembly line.

The scale

The PCBs you ship will be deployed on over 10,000 interceptors every month. We're integrating with the largest interceptor manufacturers in Ukraine, with pilots planned across multiple frontline formations, including one of Ukraine's largest army corps and a dedicated unmanned systems brigade. A board you finish this month can be in the field the next.

Team

We're three founders who've shipped hardware and software where failure isn't an option: Hisham El-Halabi put a satellite in low Earth orbit, Joseph Gonzalez built the mission planning software for the US Navy's Tomahawk fleet, and Arthur Nguyen-Cao ran engineering at Defense Tech for Ukraine, shipping FPV hardware to frontline operators. Arthur and Hisham previously founded an AI smart glasses company covered by The Verge. Between us we have over a decade of hardware experience, and we're building the seeker that’s going on tens of thousands of interceptors a month.

We're backed by former US National Security Advisor LTG H.R. McMaster, in addition to UA1, Pioneer Fund, Rebel Fund, and Palm Drive Capital.