Avionics & Electrical Engineer

Haast Autonomous is building an autonomous aircraft network for time-sensitive medical logistics. We’re developing long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and the operational foundation needed to move critical payloads between hospitals, labs, and healthcare facilities on-demand faster and more reliably.

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.

The Role

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.

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