Electrical Engineer

Inflection Space Systems Corporation; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Inflection Space Systems in Los Angeles, CA, seeks an experienced electrical engineer to own the spacecraft avionics and power architecture from requirements to flight hardware.

You will design, build, test PCBAs for power, computing, and communications; manage vendors; lead board bring-up, assembly integration, and environmental testing; and push for reliable, repeatable production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering complex hardware.
• Experience in circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout.
• Experience with spacecraft power systems including energy storage and power generation.
• Hands-on board bring-up and debugging, ownership from design to delivery of flight-ready hardware.
• Willingness to learn and get hands dirty.

Responsibilities

• Own spacecraft avionics and power architecture from requirements through flight hardware fabrication and test.
• Design, build, and test PCBAs for power conversion, power distribution, computing, and communications functions.
• Manage vendors and subcontractors.
• Lead board bring-up, electronic assembly integration, and environmental testing; diagnose and resolve hardware issues.

Skills

Electrical design

PCB layout

Power electronics

Embedded interfaces

Board bring-up

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ECAD tools

Firmware debugging tools

Job description

Inflection is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to own Inflection's vertically integrated spacecraft avionics architecture and power system. This role reports directly to the CTO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection's HQ in Los Angeles, CA.

What you'll do

• Own spacecraft avionics and power architecture, from requirements through flight hardware fabrication and test.
• Design, build, and test PCBAs for power conversion, power distribution, computing, and communications functions.
• Manage vendors and subcontractors.
• Lead board bring-up, electronic assembly integration, and environmental testing; diagnose and resolve hardware anomalies as they arise.
• Design for reliable, repeatable production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of electrical engineering experience delivering complex hardware.
• Experience in circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, power electronics, and embedded interfaces.
• Experience with spacecraft power systems including energy storage and power generation.
• Hands-on board bring-up and debugging skills, with demonstrated ownership from design through qualification and delivery of flight-ready hardware.
• The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.

About Inflection Space Systems

Inflection Space Systems is redefining how spacecraft are designed and manufactured. The company was founded on the belief that humanity’s future in space will be defined by scale: tens of thousands of spacecraft operating across many orbits to unlock abundance for humanity. Inflection exists to make this scale real, by mass manufacturing spacecraft using the same supply chains and technologies already utilized by established, high-volume industries. If you are passionate about the industrialization of space, an expert in your field, and not afraid to get your hands dirty, Inflection may be the place for you.