Lead Avionics Hardware Engineer – Spaceflight Systems

PAVE Space SA; Villeneuve (VD); Remote; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space SA is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours. This role targets qualifying the flight computer board for flight and leading avionics hardware for what comes next, spanning flight computers, propulsion electronics, interfaces, and more.

You will own PCB design through qualification, design redundancy schemes, select components across digital/mixed-signal/power, support fabrication, debugging, and perform

Qualifications

• MSc in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Strong PCB design experience in Altium, KiCad, or Cadence.
• Background in high-reliability electronics (aerospace/defence/nuclear/medical/automotive).
• Deep understanding of digital logic, signal integrity, and mixed-signal noise and power management.
• Full cycle experience from requirements to PCB design, hardware debugging, and firmware/software integration.
• Fluent English in the working environment.

Responsibilities

• Flight computer PCB design: current revision through qualification and beyond.
• Redundancy architecture: design, simulation, and test of fault-tolerant schemes.
• Component selection across digital, mixed-signal, and power domains.
• Fabrication support, board assembly, and hands-on debugging.
• Verification and validation through qualification, functional, and environmental testing.
• Radiation resiliency characterization of flight electronics (SEE, TID).

Skills

PCB design

Digital logic

Signal integrity

Power management

Hardware debugging

Embedded systems

Altium

KiCad

Cadence

English

Education

MSc in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Cadence

Job description

PAVE Space SA is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-tonne payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours. This role targets qualifying the flight computer board for flight and leading avionics hardware for what comes next, spanning flight computers, propulsion electronics, interfaces, and more.

You will own PCB design through qualification, design redundancy schemes, select components across digital/mixed-signal/power, support fabrication, debugging, and perform