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Joby is seeking a talented electrical engineer with a high-speed digital focus to join our team designing all-electric aircraft. This engineer will work closely with mechanical, software, and other cross-functional teams to design a high-speed, reliable Ethernet Switch. This is a hands-on position to design a primary component of our electric airplanes. Optimizing designs for reliability, weight, and efficiency will be a focus. 

• Own the design of a flight-critical ethernet switch
• Select components, document requirements, create schematics, for a network board
• Provide constraints for a many-layer high-density high-speed board design, and supply layout and placement guidance
• Component selection for minimum mass and maximum reliability
• Investigate modern technologies for power and data transmission/management 
• Write requirements, participate in DFMEAs + create and carry out test and validation plans

• Experience shipping products involving high-speed digital design, including networking, computing, or consumer-electronics
• Deep understanding of high-speed, high-density layout techniques, such as striplines, blind & buried vias, characteristic impedance, etc.
• Strong EE fundamentals, including familiarity with:
  • Power conversion (linear and switching regulators)
  • Signal conditioning and conversion (ADCs, filters)
  • Discrete semiconductor design (FETs, BJTs, Diodes)
• Schematic capture and PCB design
• Experience with component selection
• Hands-on experience with building and debugging hardware
• Great communication skills
• B.S. in electrical engineering or related discipline

• M.S./Ph.D. in relevant discipline 
• 2+ years of working experience in relevant industry 
• Familiarity with Altium Designer
• Experience designing networking products
• Experience with interfaces such as DDR, SGMII, PCIe, I2C, SPI, SERDES, 10G-baseKR and more
• Exposure to regulatory certification
• Design-for-reliability, including use of DFMEA and fault trees
• Designing for high EMI environments