Electrical Hardware Engineer- Avionics

Job Description

Job Description

The Electrical Hardware Engineer (Avionics) will be responsible for design, manufacturing, and testing of electrical hardware and avionics components used across all product lines. Following component delivery, you will also generate documentation to support software development, environmental acceptance testing, and component/vehicle assembly and integration.

Responsibilities Include:

• Design PCBs for spacecraft’s primary and secondary avionics systems.

• Perform trade studies on electronic components and select the best options for engineering and flight avionics units

• Develop test procedures for component, board-level and system-level integrated testing

• Testing of fabricated PCBs or integrated avionics systems

• Participating in environmental tests of engineering design units

• Participating in qualification tests of flight design units

• Programming embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, graphic processors, or similar

• Implement the full systems engineering development cycle and regularly report to the Avionics Lead on progress

• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing with engineering and flight systems

• Write and present technical reports

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

• 2+ years of experience in electronics hardware development

• Schematic and board design proficiency using software like Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, or similar

• Experience using standard electrical lab equipment (power supply, electronic load, multimeter, oscilloscope) to execute test procedures for assembled PCBs or integrated systems

• Rapid prototype development skills

• Strong debugging skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience designing electronic hardware, including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, filtering, data acquisition, and command & data handling (C&DH)

• Experience writing test plans and procedures for PCBA and/or integrated system bring up, design verification, qualification, and acceptance testing

• Experience developing test scripts in python to automate PCBA and/or integrated system test procedure execution

• Experience performing trade studies for electrical and avionics system architectures, components, and individual parts.

• Experience with PCBA inspection and rework to the requirements IPC-A-610 Class 3

• Systems engineering experience for controlling requirements, risks, and integration flow

• Capable of programming embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, graphic processors, or similar

• Familiarity with NASA-STD 4001 and NASA-STD 4003 or similar

• Experience with digital, analog, and signal conditioning circuit design

• Experience testing to MIL-STD-461 or similar