Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

Spire Government; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)

Launch Attendance

Generous Time Off Policy

Education Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Healthy snacks & beverages in every办公室

Job summary

Spire Global in Glasgow, UK, is seeking a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer to design and integrate custom components for our next-generation satellite platform.

You will perform electrical design, FPGA-based processing, and high-speed digital layouts while coordinating with the engineering team. The role involves schematic capture, PCB layout, power design, and validation in a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Electronics theory and analogue/digital circuitry expertise.
• Board design with schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium preferred).
• Experience with FPGA-based designs for high speed processing.
• High-speed layout and SI/PI practices; multiple interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirements, architecture and detailed design.
• Component selection and circuit design; simulations as needed.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer.
• Power supply and monitoring circuit design; design verification and simulations.
• Board bring-up, validation and debugging; participate in testing.

Skills

Electronics theory

Analogue & Digital circuitry

PCB layout

FPGA design

High-speed digital design

Interface protocols

Rigid-Flex PCB design

Debugging & fault analysis

Lab equipment operation

Tools

Altium Designer

HyperLynx / SI tools

Job description

Share As a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer, you will be designing and integrating custom components for our next-generation satellite platform.

Location

• Glasgow
• Scotland
• UK

Department

• Engineering

What You’ll Do

• Electrical Design of Spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design.
• Component selection and circuit level design and simulation where required.
• Schematic capture and PCB Layout using Altium Designer.
• Power supply and power monitoring circuit design
• Design verification through circuit simulations, including worst-case analysis
• Signal and Power integrity simulation and analysis
• Peer review of schematics and layouts
• Board bring-up, validation and debugging
• Assisting the validation and qualification process for testing new and existing systems.

Key Skills

• Electronics theory, including component knowledge and analogue and digital circuitry expertise.
• Board design including schematic capture, PCB layout using any enterprise software (Altium preferred) with focus on Design for manufacturing (DFM) principles.
• Experience with FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar platform) based designs for high speed and high data-rate digital signal processing applications.
• Strong knowledge of High-speed digital layout design practices (matched impedance, stack up and manufacturing restrictions) and experience using SI tools.
• Experience with digital communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet).
• Experience with Rigid, Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB design.
• Strong debugging experience and fault identification.
• Experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Design for IPC-6012DS Class 3A or ECSS-Q-ST-70-12C/60C compliance
• Experienced in High power electronic design and thermal management.
• SI tools experience like Hyperlynx or equivalent.
• Experience with environmental and component reliability requirements for space application
• Design for FPGA Programming (Verilog, VHDL)
• Embedded and DSP programming (C/C++, Microcontrollers, DSP)
• Design experience for EMI/EMC, along with use of shields and enclosures.

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying.

Global Perks

• Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
• Launch Attendance
• Generous Time Off Policy
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Family Leave
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Program
• Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

About Spire

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

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