Electrical Engineering / System Design

Electrical Engineer

Overview Energy is a mission-driven team committed to building a new layer of energy infrastructure: satellites in geosynchronous orbit that redirect solar energy to terrestrial solar projects via passively safe near-infrared light. We're in the earliest phase, where every circuit board and harness that leaves our facility is designed, built, and tested end-to-end by a small, dedicated team. Headquartered in the Northern Virginia / Washington, DC area and backed by world-class investors, we are advancing the next generation of clean energy technology.

We're hiring an Electrical Engineer to design, build, and test the electronics behind our flight and ground hardware. You'll report directly to our lead electrical engineer and work daily with our mechanical, embedded software, and systems engineers.

The next, you're holding a supplier to its statement of work and checking that what ships matches what we specified.

The role is onsite daily at our Ashburn Virginia facility.

Design and capture schematics for analog, digital, and power boards: sensors, data acquisition, power delivery, and the interfaces between them.

Select components, build BOMs, and see boards through fabrication and assembly.

Support systems engineering on requirements, architecture, and interfaces.

Design and document wire harnesses and interconnects: wire gauge, connectors, pinouts, and interface control documents (ICDs).

Manage electronics suppliers and contractors: review statements of work, track deliverables, and verify what arrives against spec.

Write test procedures and scripts that automate measurements and data analysis.

S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field.

• 2–5+ years of hands-on electrical hardware experience. Internships and co-ops count, as does a substantial hardware program such as CubeSat, Formula SAE, solar car, hybrid/EV, rocketry, or UAV teams.
• Solid fundamentals in analog and digital circuits, plus enough embedded experience to work with microcontrollers and common communication buses.
• Comfort on the bench with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and power supplies.
• Some experience working with an external supplier or contractor, even a single one on a single program.
• Ability to work onsite at our Northern Virginia facility.

Hardware that has flown, or a full program cycle in space, aerospace, UAV, or another high-reliability field.

Exposure to environmental testing: vibration, shock, and thermal vacuum.

Familiarity with circuit design in LTspice or related simulation platforms such as SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, or Qspice

Power electronics or battery system experience.

Range across mechanical, electrical, and embedded work.

In addition to competitive salary and equity, Overview Energy offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage, a health and wellness stipend, 4 weeks paid time off, 2 weeks sick leave, parental leave, and 401(k) matching. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.Employment decisions are based on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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