Aerospace Hardware Design Engineer — Analog & Embedded

Vantage Consulting; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage Consulting seeks a seasoned Hardware Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and verify advanced aerospace electronic systems throughout the product lifecycle. You will craft analog, digital, and mixed-signal hardware for mission-critical applications, define requirements, and drive testing across environments.

You will create schematics, support PCB layouts in Altium, select components, and lead verification and qualification activities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of electronic hardware design experience.
• Experience in aerospace/defense/high-reliability systems.
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design.
• Experience with microcontrollers, FPGAs, or embedded hardware.
• Familiarity with interfaces like SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, Ethernet, SpaceWire.
• Lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers.
• Experience supporting EMI/EMC and hardware qualification activities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop analog, digital, and mixed-signal hardware for aerospace applications.
• Create schematics and support PCB layout using Altium.
• Component selection and circuit design for analog, digital, power, and embedded systems.
• Hardware integration, board bring-up, debugging, and verification.
• Develop design verification and qualification test procedures.
• Root-cause analysis and component-level troubleshooting of hardware issues.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary engineering team.
• Create technical documentation, reviews, and requirements.
• Support environmental/qualification testing (vibration, thermal, EMI/EMC).

Skills

Analog & digital design

Systems collaboration

Troubleshooting

Tools

Altium

Job description

Vantage Consulting seeks a seasoned Hardware Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and verify advanced aerospace electronic systems throughout the product lifecycle. You will craft analog, digital, and mixed-signal hardware for mission-critical applications, define requirements, and drive testing across environments.

You will create schematics, support PCB layouts in Altium, select components, and lead verification and qualification activities.