Staff / Senior Staff Engineer – Avionics

Big Bang Boom Solutions Private Limited; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Bang Boom Solutions Private Limited in Chennai invites an experienced spacecraft avionics engineer to own flight electronics across our space programmes. You will lead architecture, schematic to flight-qualified hardware, focusing on mixed-signal and high-speed boards, radiation effects, and part selection.

This role requires mentoring the avionics team, establishing engineering standards, and coordinating ground testing to flight qualification.

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech, M.Tech or PhD in Electronics (preferred)/Electrical. Certification or course credits in space electronics, radiation effects or IPC/ECSS workmanship will be a plus.
• Experience with flight-hardened hardware and space-grade design practices.

Responsibilities

• Spacecraft avionics design, development and qualification – from architecture and schematic to flight-qualified hardware.
• Set engineering standards for space programmes and lead the avionics team.
• Take designs from ground testing to flight and mentor the team.

Skills

Avionics architecture

Mixed-signal design

Radiation effects

Space-grade FPGA

C Embedded C

Python

Thermal/EMI

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Electronics/Electrical

M.Tech or PhD in Electronics (preferred)

Tools

Altium

OrCAD

Cadence

Vivado

Libero

Job description

Experienced spacecraft avionics engineer to own flight electronics across our space programmes. Strong foundation in mixed-signal and high-speed board design, radiation effects and part selection for space. Should have designed hardware that has flown, and be able to build and mentor the avionics team. Key Responsibilities: Spacecraft avionics design, development and qualification – all the way from architecture and schematic to flight-qualified hardware. This role will set the engineering standard for these programmes, take them from ground testing to flight, and help build the team around them.

Qualifications

B.E./B.Tech, M.Tech or PhD in Electronics (preferred)/Electrical. Certification or course credits in space electronics, radiation effects or IPC/ECSS workmanship will be a plus.

Experience

10–20 yrs in spacecraft avionics, with hardware that has flown.

Skills

• Avionics architecture – on-board computer, payload processor, power electronics, telemetry and telecommand, and interfaces (CAN, SpaceWire, RS-422, LVDS, Ethernet).
• Mixed-signal, high-speed digital and power electronics board design and sign-off.
• EEE part selection (COTS vs radiation-tolerant), derating, and TID/SEE analysis and mitigation.
• Integrating high-power COTS compute (GPU/AI accelerators) – power delivery, thermal interfaces, latch-up protection and fault management.
• Harness, grounding, bonding and EMI/EMC design.
• Electronics qualification campaigns – thermal vacuum, vibration, EMI/EMC and radiation.
• Experience with image sensor electronics or space-grade FPGAs is an added advantage.

Good to have skills

• Altium / OrCAD / Cadence (PCB design)
• SPICE / LTspice
• SI/PI analysis tools
• Vivado / Libero (FPGA)
• C / Embedded C
• Python
• ECSS
• MIL-STD-461/883
• IPC J-STD-001 (space addendum)