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# Lead Electrical Engineer at Amca

- **Company:** Amca
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA
- **Compensation:** $160k–$260k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/amca/jobs/4362673009

## Job description

Amca is building America’s new industrial base. Since the 1990s, our ability to build new aviation and military systems and maintain the ones we already have has eroded. Today, the gap between what the nation needs to produce and what it is capable of producing is the largest it has been in generations.

To help close that gap, Amca rapidly develops and manufactures new critical components and subsystems required to build and sustain the planes, military vehicles, and core infrastructure America needs. Today, we operate seven factories nationwide, including our advanced prototyping and testing headquarters in El Segundo, and deliver avionics, hydraulic, and electrical components for platforms such as the F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320neo, A321, Mk-48, and M1 Abrams.

Overview:

You will lead Amca's electrical engineering function across design, build, and test. Your team delivers flight-critical electrical hardware from concept through qualification and into production — spanning avionics, power electronics, fluid control systems, and adjacent electrical categories. You will set the technical standard for how Amca designs, builds, and proves its electrical products, while growing and developing the engineers responsible for executing that work day to day. This is a player-coach role: you will be in the details of hard problems while building the team and processes to scale.

Responsibilities:

- Manage the electrical engineering team across design, build, and test
- Hire, develop, and retain electrical design and test engineers
- Set technical standards, design review processes, and engineering best practices across the discipline
- Mentor engineers at all levels and build a culture of ownership, rigor, and speed
- Partner with mechanical, software, and build engineering to deliver integrated hardware systems
- Contribute to the electrical product roadmap in partnership with program management and senior leadership
- Work with business development and program management to understand customer requirements and translate them into executable engineering plans
- Support expansion of Amca's electrical product catalog across avionics, power electronics, fluid control, and adjacent categories
- Challenge requirements from first principles and ensure designs are optimized for reliability, lead time, and cost from day one
- Maintain hands-on technical leadership
- Provide direct design oversight and review for flight-critical electrical hardware, including schematics, component selection, de-rating analyses, and PCBA layout
- Lead or support qualification programs including functional, environmental, and acceptance testing per DO-160, MIL-STD, and applicable standards
- Drive rapid hardware iteration from prototype through production release
- Ensure all products meet aerospace configuration management, documentation, and design control requirements
- Support company growth initiatives
- Represent electrical engineering in customer-facing engagements and program reviews

Qualifications:

- Substantial experience in electrical engineering for aerospace or defense hardware, with a strong track record of taking products from concept through flight qualification and into production
- Demonstrated success leading engineering teams; able to develop and retain strong technical talent
- Deep technical fluency across power electronics, analog/digital circuit design, PCBA layout, component selection, and qualification testing
- Comfortable with hands-on debugging and bench work — this is a hands-on leadership role
- First-principles thinker who can challenge requirements, cut unnecessary complexity, and make pragmatic tradeoffs under schedule pressure
- Familiarity with DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and other aerospace qualification and certification frameworks
- Independent, direct, and action-oriented; thrives in a fast-paced environment with minimal bureaucracy

Annual Salary Range $160,000—$260,000 USD

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; or. any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence ("Green Card" holder); or. any individual who is granted status as a "protected person" under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

The Advanced Manufacturing Company of America prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.

## About Amca

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Amca (Advanced Manufacturing Company of America) integrates design, rapid prototyping, qualification, and AS9100D-certified production to deliver critical aerospace and defense components in weeks instead of years.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $76.5M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jai Malik (CEO & Co-Founder), Eli Giovanetti (COO & Co-Founder); Varun Gupta serves as Chairman

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Aerospace and defense component manufacturing; avionics, hydraulics, electrical systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise – primes such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, and U.S. military sustainment programs. Platforms include F-35, F-16, F/A-18, 737MAX, 787, A320, M1 Abrams, and more.
- **Mission / purpose**: Build America’s new industrial base – faster, distributed, and multi-sourced – to increase competition and capacity for every class of critical component.

## Products & Services
- **Integrated Manufacturing System**: A unified workflow that combines rapid prototyping, software-enabled testing, qualification, and certified production across a network of AS9100D-certified factories.  
  *Type: Service / Manufacturing-as-a-Service*
- **Component Lines**: A growing portfolio of parts and subsystems across avionics, hydraulics, and electrical systems. Products are flying on platforms such as the F-35, 737, A320, and Patriot Missile.  
  *Type: Hardware (Manufactured components)*
- **Acquired Legacy Factories**: Amca has acquired several established manufacturers (e.g., Payne Magnetics, Electrocube, Cal-Draulics, Aerospace Control Products, Electro-Mech Components) to fold their capabilities into its integrated system.  
  *Type: Acquisition-led capacity expansion*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $76.5M (Seed round, May 2025, led by Caffeinated Capital)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Caffeinated Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Founders Fund
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 32 employees ( +309.1% YoY, +7.1% monthly growth)
  - Active job postings: 24 ( +71.4% monthly, +500% quarterly)
  - Acquired six legacy manufacturing companies since inception (2024–2025)
  - Supplies components for major defense platforms (F-35, F-16, F/A-18, M1 Abrams) and commercial aircraft (737, 787, A320)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated single system** – Combines design, prototyping, qualification, and production under one roof, eliminating the years-long silos of traditional suppliers.
- **Speed to production** – Can move from requirement to manufactured components within weeks, compared to typical multi-year timelines.
- **AS9100D-certified factory network** – Provides certified production capacity that is flexible and scalable, with dedicated lines for specific components.
- **Multi-sourcing & domestic resilience** – Reduces single-source dependence and builds a distributed U.S. industrial base.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue acquiring and integrating legacy aerospace/defense suppliers to broaden component classes and production capacity.
- Expand engineering and manufacturing talent to support new platform wins and sustainment programs.
- Scale the “integrated manufacturing system” model to become the default partner for critical component production in the U.S. defense and commercial aerospace sectors.

## Why Work Here
- **High ownership & rapid promotion** – The company emphasizes “unreasonably high degree of ownership” and fast career advancement for top performers.
- **Small, mission-driven team** – Currently 32 employees, with a culture of honest communication and full ownership of domains.
- **Office environment** – Described as “one of the most beautiful offices anywhere in the country” (El Segundo, CA). Hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated; headquarters are in El Segundo with additional offices in Dallas, TX.
- **Engineering culture** – Staff come from SpaceX, Anduril, Saronic, and other top aerospace/defense companies; 36% of employees in technical roles.
- **Impact** – Everything built goes on planes that millions of people fly on, and on military platforms that protect national security.

## Sources
1. [amca.com – Who We Are](https://www.amca.com/who-we-are)
2. [amca.com – Our Products](https://www.amca.com/our-products)
3. [amca.com – Careers](https://www.amca.com/careers)
4. [careers.amca.com – Amca Careers](https://careers.amca.com/)
5. [LinkedIn – Amca Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/amcainc)

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