Satellite Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Help to lead avionics architectural decisions and identify individual electronic components
• Support hardware bring-up, debugging, and validation in lab environments
• Support environmental payload testing, and write associated test cases
• Define connector and cable harnessing for space environments
• Support the design of digital and analog/mixed-signal electrical circuits
• Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, software, and systems teams to ensure cohesive hardware solutions, as well as with external stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in electrical design
• Familiarity with avionics systems design and testing strategies, particularly those compliant with NASA MIL standards
• Familiarity with signal integrity, power distribution, and EMI/EMC best practices, especially in a space environment
• Familiarity with designing robust grounding schemes (and strong understanding of grounding optimization tactics)
• Experience designing harness drawings
• Experience writing test procedures for both board and assembly level tests
• Strong debugging skills using lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers)
• Working knowledge of hardware development for harsh environments (radiation tolerance, thermal constraints)
• Familiarity with board-level electrical design, schematic capture, and layout tools (e.g., Altium Designer, KiCad, OrCAD)
• Eligible to hold a security clearance

Preferred Qualification

• 6-8 years of relevant experience in electrical design
• Familiarity with monitoring and reporting environmental testing for electronic assemblies (such as EMI/EMC, TVAC, etc)
• Strong proficiency with board-level electrical design, schematic capture, and layout tools (e.g., Altium Designer, KiCad, OrCAD)
• Proficiency with high speed and mixed signal simulation tools (such as Ansys, HyperLynx, etc)
• Experience designing optical, radio frequency (RF), and/or high power avionics
• Experience with VHDL or Verilog and FPGA development toolchains (e.g., Vivado, Quartus, Libero)
• Experience integrating FPGA systems with embedded processors, sensors, and high-speed interfaces (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART, LVDS, SpaceWire, Ethernet)

Benefits

• Open Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k Matching
• Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, Dependent Care FSA
• Wellness Stipend
• Work From Home Stipend
• Life Insurance
• Long-term Disability plans
• Commuter Benefit
• Education Reimbursement