Senior Spacecraft Electronics Architect

AAC Clyde Space; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AAC Clyde Space seeks a Principal Electronics Engineer to lead spacecraft electronics architecture, design, verification and qualification within the Electronics team. You will drive high-reliability hardware across the engineering lifecycle and mentor colleagues to maintain flight-ready solutions.

The role collaborates with systems, electronics, AIT and project teams to ensure robust, tested electronics and to support technical risk reduction. Hybrid on-site work is available.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent work experience.
• Significant analogue/digital hardware design experience in high-reliability environments.
• Practical understanding of electronics design, verification, qualification and production release.
• Good understanding of EMC, reliability, manufacturability, testability, fault investigation and technical risk.
• Working knowledge of spacecraft electrical interfaces, including power, RF, digital, analogue, communications and harnessing.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical authority within assigned scope, supporting delegated engineering design activities for spacecraft electronics and electrical architectures.
• Provide senior input to spacecraft-level electrical and electronics architecture decisions.
• Design, review and support electronics hardware activities across the engineering lifecycle.
• Conduct senior-level design reviews, NCRs, ECNs, risk assessments and decision records, ensuring DFX requirements are addressed.
• Advise on complex design issues including EMC, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, reliability, manufacturability and testability.
• Support the Electronics Team Leader by advising Engineering, project and cross-functional teams within assigned scope on technical risk, estimates, approach and issue resolution.
• Provide accurate technical information and estimates for agreed work plans through company systems and records for leadership to monitor achievement of operational and/or financial plan.
• Support continuous improvement of design quality and engineering efficiency with their associated processes.
• Mentoring and share knowledge within the team to develop capability and maintain high technical standards.

Skills

Hardware design

EMC

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Grounding

Shielding

Reliability

DFM/DFT

Schematic review

PCB layouts

Electrical interfaces

Mentoring

Communication

Project management

English

Tools

Altium

Cadence OrCAD

SPICE

ECAD tools

Job description

AAC Clyde Space seeks a Principal Electronics Engineer to lead spacecraft electronics architecture, design, verification and qualification within the Electronics team. You will drive high-reliability hardware across the engineering lifecycle and mentor colleagues to maintain flight-ready solutions.

The role collaborates with systems, electronics, AIT and project teams to ensure robust, tested electronics and to support technical risk reduction. Hybrid on-site work is available.