Senior Flight Electronics & Avionics Electrical Engineer

Position Overview

This is not a role for someone looking for a traditional 40-hour work week. Space Kinetic is building ambitious, first-of-its-kind technology, and that requires urgency, ownership, and a high level of commitment to changing the foundational assumptions for everything we do in space.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and validate flight electronics, avionics, power distribution systems, and vehicle electrical architectures.
• Develop schematics, PCB designs, cable harnesses, grounding strategies, and electrical interfaces for launch vehicle subsystems.
• Define electrical requirements and interface specifications for vehicle systems and payload integrations.
• Support architecture development for vehicle power systems, telemetry, command and control systems, sensors, actuators, and flight computers.
• Perform component selection, electrical analyses, worst-case analyses, and reliability assessments.
• Support hardware bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and qualification testing.
• Develop and execute electrical test plans for subsystem and integrated vehicle testing.
• Work closely with flight software and GNC teams to integrate sensors, controllers, and avionics hardware.
• Support environmental testing including vibration, thermal vacuum, EMI/EMC, and system-level qualification campaigns.
• Participate in launch campaigns, vehicle integration activities, and anomaly investigations.
• Drive hardware from concept through flight, including rapid design iterations and hands-on testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of professional electrical engineering experience.
• Experience designing complex electrical systems for aerospace, defense, spacecraft, launch vehicles, aircraft, robotics, or other high-reliability applications.
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design.
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB design tools.
• Experience troubleshooting electrical hardware in laboratory and test environments.
• Ability to read and create electrical drawings, interface control documents, and test procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 9+ years of professional electrical engineering experience.
• Experience with launch vehicles, spacecraft, satellites, missile systems, or aerospace flight hardware.
• Experience with power electronics, battery systems, and power distribution architectures.
• Experience designing avionics and flight electronics.
• Experience with communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, RS-485, SPI, I2C, and UART.
• Experience with FPGA-based systems, embedded processors, or flight computers.
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC design practices and qualification testing.
• Experience with environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal, and vacuum testing.
• Familiarity with aerospace standards and high-reliability design methodologies.
• Experience working in fast-paced development environments where hardware is rapidly designed, tested, and iterated.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong technical judgment and engineering fundamentals.
• A hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines and drive issues to closure.
• Comfort operating in an environment with ambitious schedules and challenging technical goals.
• A desire to see hardware through the full lifecycle—from concept and design to launch and flight operations.