Electrical Architect – Spaceborne Sensing & AI Systems

Matter Intelligence; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Early-stage equity package

100% employer-paid health, dental, and

Vision coverage

Job summary

Matter Intelligence, based in El Segundo, CA, seeks an Electrical Architect to own the electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and supporting airborne and spaceborne systems. The role reports to the lead engineer and guides interfaces, power, signal integrity, and design decisions across the payload electronics stack.

Responsibilities include leading trade studies, defining design requirements and verification approaches, and providing hands-on guidance through schematic design,

Qualifications

• Experience architecting complex electrical systems that combine multiple boards, sensors, processors, power domains, and interfaces.
• Strong fundamentals in electronics, power, high-speed or sensitive signal paths, grounding, and hardware integration.
• Ability to lead technical reviews and communicate architectural tradeoffs across disciplines.
• Hands-on judgment informed by hardware development, bring-up, test, and failure investigation.
• Experience with aerospace, defense, imaging, sensing, avionics, or other high-reliability hardware.
• Experience designing for constrained power, mass, thermal, electromagnetic, or environmental conditions.
• Familiarity with qualification, production transition, supplier coordination, and configuration control.

Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end electrical architecture and maintain clear interfaces across payload subsystems.
• Lead trade studies and design decisions involving power distribution, signal integrity, data paths, grounding, and reliability.
• Establish design requirements, budgets, review criteria, and verification approaches with systems and engineering teams.
• Provide technical guidance through schematic design, board development, bring-up, integration, and test.
• Identify cross-system risks early and drive them to clear owners, decisions, and evidence-based closure.

Skills

Electrical system design

Hardware integration

Technical leadership

Signal integrity

Job description

Matter Intelligence, based in El Segundo, CA, seeks an Electrical Architect to own the electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and supporting airborne and spaceborne systems. The role reports to the lead engineer and guides interfaces, power, signal integrity, and design decisions across the payload electronics stack.

Responsibilities include leading trade studies, defining design requirements and verification approaches, and providing hands-on guidance through schematic design,