Avionics Engineering Manager, Spacecraft Electrical Systems

ICEYE; Irvine, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Friendly environment

Extra perks

Job summary

ICEYE US in Irvine, CA is seeking a Manager, Avionics to lead the engineering team responsible for payload and vehicle-level electrical architecture, avionics systems, communications, and onboard networking. You will own electrical interfaces and data buses across programs, guiding integration and verification through environmental testing.

The role requires strong leadership, deep spacecraft experience, and the ability to coordinate with RF, software, mechanical, and program management teams to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in spacecraft electrical design and avionics development, including full lifecycle ownership from architecture through environmental verification.
• 2+ years of direct engineering management or technical lead experience, including tasking, mentorship, and performance ownership for a multi-discipline engineering team.
• Deep background in spacecraft power systems, harnessing, avionics bus architectures, and payload-to-bus electrical integration.
• Demonstrated experience developing and owning ICDs for hardware-to-hardware and system-to-system interfaces.
• Experience in system-level integration and test, including environmental testing (vibration, TVAC, EMI/EMC).
• Experience with onboard communications and data networking architectures for spacecraft.
• Familiarity with spacecraft GNC constraints as they pertain to payload performance and electrical design.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of avionics engineers; hiring, onboarding, performance development.
• Own avionics subsystem program execution: work breakdown, scheduling, resource loading, risk tracking.
• Set and enforce avionics engineering standards, processes, and operating framework across lifecycle.
• Serve as the avionics technical authority and cross-functional counterpart to systems RF, mechanical, thermal, software & PM.
• Own the payload electrical architecture: power distribution, harnessing, interfaces, data buses, onboard topology.
• Lead avionics architecture definition across products.
• Guide design and analysis of payload electrical systems to meet power, mass, thermal, EMI/EMC, reliability.
• Guide PCBA design to meet mission requirements and architecture constraints; promote reusability.
• Develop onboard networking designs: data routing, bandwidth, latency budgets, fault tolerance.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Avionics development

System integration

PCB design

Onboard networking

Team leadership

Environmental testing

ICD development

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

None

Job description

ICEYE US in Irvine, CA is seeking a Manager, Avionics to lead the engineering team responsible for payload and vehicle-level electrical architecture, avionics systems, communications, and onboard networking. You will own electrical interfaces and data buses across programs, guiding integration and verification through environmental testing.

The role requires strong leadership, deep spacecraft experience, and the ability to coordinate with RF, software, mechanical, and program management teams to