Director of Avionics - Lead Spacecraft Electronics

Outpost Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Equity in Outpost

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Lunch stipend

Snacks & drinks

Pet-friendly office

Team events

Job summary

Outpost Space is seeking a Director of Avionics in Playa Vista, CA to lead the design, testing, and production of avionics for Earth-return vehicles. You will own end-to-end avionics subsystems, collaborate with engineers across domains, and drive architecture, requirements, design, test, integration, and flight support.

The role offers ownership of flight and ground hardware, interface with vendors, and leadership responsibilities across software and avionics teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing and building electrical hardware for high-reliability applications such as aerospace, defense, or automotive.
• First principles knowledge of electrical engineering.
• Experience with PCB/PCBA design, manufacturing, bring-up and test.
• Experience with embedded software development.
• Working knowledge of qualification and acceptance testing practices.
• Working knowledge of component derating, fault tolerance, and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Capture vehicle avionics requirements.
• Evaluate new EEE components, system architectures, and hardware designs.
• Prototype new avionics hardware.
• Own development of flight hardware, ground hardware, and test hardware.
• Interface directly with external vendors.
• Manage a small team including flight software, embedded software, and avionics design engineering.
• Define avionics design, manufacturing, test, and conops procedures.
• Interface with leadership for project management, budgeting, hiring, and scheduling.

Skills

Aerospace hardware

Electrical engineering

PCB/PCBA design

Embedded software

Qualification testing

Reliability engineering

Education

Bachelor's in EE

Tools

PCB design tools

Schematic capture

Job description

Outpost Space is seeking a Director of Avionics in Playa Vista, CA to lead the design, testing, and production of avionics for Earth-return vehicles. You will own end-to-end avionics subsystems, collaborate with engineers across domains, and drive architecture, requirements, design, test, integration, and flight support.

The role offers ownership of flight and ground hardware, interface with vendors, and leadership responsibilities across software and avionics teams.