Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer
As a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer, you will design, test, build, and deliver the electrical systems that power, control, and operate our spacecraft. Your work will span flight-critical hardware including electromechanical actuators, power conversion and distribution, batteries, solar power systems, motor controls, sensors, and embedded control electronics.
You will own hardware from architecture sketches and first-principles design through bring-up, qualification, vehicle integration, and flight, with broad technical scope and extreme ownership. You will work with experts across propulsion, GNC, mechanisms, software, structures, thermal, and systems engineering to solve multidisciplinary spacecraft problems and make trades that directly affect performance, reliability, mass, power, and mission capability.
This is an opportunity to work with some of the best engineers in the industry on difficult, consequential problems - and take spacecraft systems from a whiteboard to hardware operating in space.
Responsibilities
- Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital or control electronics
- Contribute to new spacecraft avionics architecture trade
- Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems
- Act as the Responsible Engineering authority for your hardware, owning your design from board bring-up and debugging in the lab through qualification and flight operations
- Define hardware interfaces and verify requirements
- Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
- Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 5+ years professional experience designing analog, power, or control electronics for spacecraft or similar vehicles
- Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
- Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
- Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
- Ability to work autonomously, communicate clearly, and collaborate across engineering disciplines
