About Us
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
About Dash 2 Dynamics (D2)
D2 is building a new class of advanced communications systems powered by the integration of plasma physics, radio-frequency engineering, and novel antenna architectures. Our work is aimed at overcoming fundamental limits in conventional antennas and enabling communications capabilities that are smaller, more wideband, and more resilient in demanding environments. We are taking breakthrough technology from the laboratory through rapid prototyping, rigorous modeling and test, product qualification, and operational deployment.
This is an opportunity to join a hands-on, multidisciplinary team working at the edge of electromagnetics, materials, electronics, plasma science, and mission-focused product development. The systems we are developing will reshape how defense, aerospace, and commercial users communicate across contested and congested RF environments.
About the Role
Dash 2 Dynamics (D2) is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead mixed-signal electrical design for the electronics that enable our plasma-enhanced antenna and communications systems. You will own designs from schematic capture through PCB layout, with an emphasis on the digital, control, sensing, and power circuitry that surrounds the RF chain, and help shape the build strategy that takes hardware from benchtop prototypes to qualification-ready units. Working hand-in-hand with our RF subject matter expert, you will also run integration and test: bringing up boards, verifying performance, and closing the loop between design intent and measured system behavior.
What You Will Do
Electrical Architecture & Technical Leadership
Architect a new kind of radio front end. Define the mixed-signal backbone (digital control, embedded interfaces, sensing, data conversion, and power) that turns a plasma-enabled aperture into a controllable, field-ready communications system.
Set the technical bar. As the senior electrical voice on a small, fast-moving team, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with our RF subject matter expert to draw clean digital/RF boundaries that scale across bands, operating modes, and product variants.
Circuit & Hardware Development
Design the electronics that put plasma under command. Build microcontroller- and FPGA-based control, data converters, precision sensing, and the drive and bias circuitry that ignites, sustains, and modulates the plasma elements at the heart of our antennas.
Own your boards end to end. Take designs from schematic capture through PCB layout, designing in signal and power integrity, thermal margin, and testability while engineering out noise coupling, EMI, arcing, parasitics, and transient stress.
Prototype, Test & Troubleshooting
Be first to see new hardware come alive. Bring up and debug first-of-their-kind prototypes with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and automated data capture, chasing root cause across electrical, plasma, and electromechanical behavior.
Run the integration and test campaigns that prove it works. Plan and execute tests that retire the biggest technical risks, correlating circuit models and bench data with plasma, thermal, and RF performance alongside our RF lead.
Integration, Qualification & Transition
Shape how D2 builds hardware. Help define fabrication and assembly approach, prototype build sequencing, design verification, and configuration control as breakthrough technology moves from the lab bench toward qualification.
Carry it across the finish line. Work with mechanical, software, and systems engineers and with PCB, component, and test…