Electrical Engineer – Spacecraft Avionics – Starshield

Electrical Engineer – Spacecraft Avionics – Starshield

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics
• 1+ years of professional experience designing and delivering electrical hardware (internship and project experience are applicable)

Responsibilities

• Ultimate ownership of ensuring the successful operation of bus and payloads on orbit via the avionics suite
• Electrical architecture and design, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, and documentation
• Flight production, development prototyping, vendor selection, and manufacturing
• Circuit and full product bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and confidence, acceptance and qualification testing
• Deliver flight hardware on time and active project management through schedule maintenance and status reports
• Integration, full vehicle integrated testing, on-orbit operations support, and data review
• Multidisciplinary coordination with software, firmware, mechanical, PCB layout, environments, integration, harnessing, test, manufacturing, and production teams to deliver a fully functional product
• System engineering efforts to ensure design meets all intents and does not adversely impact other groups or designs
• Drive improvements in reliability and capabilities while minimizing cost and schedule

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar engineering degree
• 4+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing electrical hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products, not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
• 2+ years of professional experience with hands-on testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
• 2+ years of professional experience with fast-paced projects
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
• Ability to work in an autonomously driven and demanding start­up atmosphere
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight
• Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance, or ability to obtain one desired but not required