Electrical Engineer

Join our satellite development team as an Electrical Engineer. In this hands-on, collaborative role, you will design, develop, and integrate electrical systems for spacecraft propulsion. You will lead hardware design, lab testing, and debugging across low-to-high voltage subsystems. You will work closely with firmware and power electronics engineers and collaborate with propulsion and avionics teams to ensure hardware reliability in harsh space environments.

Design and develop electrical subsystems for propulsion electronics, including embedded microcontroller hardware, sensor interfaces, valve drivers, and power conversion.

Responsibilities

• Lead schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout design from breadboard prototypes to flight hardware, ensuring compliance with standards and derating guidelines.
• Develop and execute electrical test plans from breadboard to flight hardware, writing Python scripts for test automation and data logging.
• Power Electronics: Experience designing driver circuits for inductive loads (valves, valve drivers, solenoids) and closed-loop DC/DC converters. High-voltage power electronics experience is a plus
• EDA & Modeling: Familiarity with electrical design and simulation tools (e.g., Altium, KiCad, SPICE)
• Analog Design: Strong background in precision sensor acquisition and analog signal conditioning (op-amps, filtering, ADC/DAC interfacing)
• Core Technical: Fundamental understanding of mixed-signal electronics, power tree design, power conversion, signal integrity, and hardware reliability in harsh space environments

Requirements

• Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Experience: 2+ years taking mixed-signal designs from schematics to manufacturing and lab bring-up
• Lab Validation: Hands-on experience with electrical testing, debugging (oscilloscopes, dynamic loads, power meters), and Python test scripting
• Embedded HW: Hands-on experience designing embedded microcontroller hardware and peripheral interfaces (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422)
• Experience with space environmental testing (e.g., TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461) and component derating standards (e.g., NASA EEE-INST-002)
• Experience developing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators
• Familiarity with reading embedded C/C++ to collaborate seamlessly with firmware engineers during low-level driver bring-up and boundary-scan debugging

Preferred

• Exposure to satellite systems, avionics, or electrical power systems

Pay

USD 140,000 - 185,000