Electrical Design Engineer

We are seeking an Electrical Design Engineer, Digital to join our Bus Electronics Design team, with a focus on avionics hardware development. This is a hands-on, on-site position located in San Jose, CA.

The Bus Electronics team is responsible for the design, verification, and manufacturing support for the electronics that enable our reputable, reliable, high-powered spacecraft. Our spacecraft span pLEO to deep space, enabling national defense, earth observation & communications, and interplanetary space exploration such as NASA’s Psyche Discovery Program and SR-1 Freedom mission to Mars.

In this role, you will lead the electrical design of next-gen compute for our avionics systems, including onboard computing and data handling, memory blocks, high speed communications, FPGA interfaces and integration, etc. This is an exciting opportunity to be the owner from concept through schematic capture and PCB layout, engineering test and qualification, production and flight of avionics hardware for space applications.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and make recommendations to system trades, requirements capture, and design choices and implications, in an often ambiguous design space.
• Proactive ownership of hardware through design, production, satellite integration, and on-orbit performance.
• Design, analyze, and test digital electronics hardware for use in spacecraft applications. Hands-on prototyping and bring up of designs.
• Documentation of engineering test and qualification plans, execute hardware validation through benchtop and environmental testing, troubleshooting and root cause investigations of anomalous circuit behavior.
• Collaborate with entire cross-functional team (mechanical, thermal, software/firmware, test engineering, supply chain, etc.) to drive project success.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science or a related field, with 8 years of experience minimum
• Proficiency in the design, simulation, analysis, and test of digital electronics circuits and on-board computing.
• Proficiency in schematics and circuit board layout considerations for digital and mixed signal electronics, including high speed communications.
• Experience with analysis methods such as circuit stress, derating, and worst-case analysis.

Additional Desired Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience, including experience leading electrical engineering designs through the full lifecycle.
• Experience with Radiation Hardened (Rad Hard) designs; single event effects (SEE) and mitigation analysis / methods for use of COTs components in space.
• Design considerations for reliability, redundancy, FMECA, and radiation effects in a space environment.
• Familiarity with OpenVPX and SpaceVPX standards.
• Self-motivated, attention to detail, with proactive problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Knowledge of Design for excellence (DFX).