Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Spire Global is seeking a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer to design and integrate custom components for our satellite platform. You will work on PCBAs, select components, and interface with software and mechanical teams throughout the product lifecycle.

The role involves design, testing, and qualification across concepts to production. You’ll contribute to FPGA-based designs, high-speed digital layouts, SI/PI analysis, and lab validation, while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a

Qualifications

• Experience in designing spacecraft electronics with analogue and digital circuitry.
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Responsibilities

• Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design.
• Component selection and circuit design and simulation.
• Schematic capture and PCB Layout using Altium Designer.
• Power supply and power monitoring circuit design.
• Design verification through circuit simulations and SI/PI analysis.
• Peer review of schematics and layouts.
• Board bring-up, validation and debugging.
• Assistance with validation and qualification for testing systems.

Skills

Electronics theory

High-speed design

PCB layout

Schematic capture

Power electronics

FPGA design

Digital interfaces

DSP programming

Signal integrity

Tools

Altium Designer

HyperLynx

Oscilloscopes

VNA

Job description

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

This includes the design of PCBAs; the selection, evaluation, and integration of various off-the-shelf components and custom sensors, radios, and power systems; making last-minute fixes; working with third-party fabricators and assemblers; and interfacing with the software and mechanical teams. You may also participate in guiding software and mechanical design and may be involved at any stage of development including proof of concept to new product introduction.

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 existingsystems.

Key Skills:

• Electronics theory, including component knowledge and analogue and digital circuitry expertise.
• Board design including schematic capture, PCB layout using any enterprisesoftware (Altium preferred) with focus on Design for manufacturing (DFM)principles.
• Experience with FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar platform) based designsfor 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.

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

About Spire

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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