Electrical Engineer I: Hands-On Rocketry Hardware

longshot; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Longshot Space Technologies Corporation in Alameda, California seeks an early-career electrical engineer to design and build CCAs, microcontroller and FPGA firmware, harnesses, and the test procedures that verify them.

You’ll own projects from the bench to the launcher, balance CAD work with on-site tests, chase root causes, and collaborate with mechanical, software and test engineers to deliver reliable, mission-critical hardware on schedule.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field (0–2 years).
• Internship/co-op or substantial personal/project experience in rocketry, robotics, or power electronics.
• Solid fundamentals in analog and digital circuits and power electronics.
• Hands-on with lab equipment: oscilloscope, DMM, power supplies, soldering/crimping.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout experience (Altium, KiCad); ideally a board you designed and brought up.
• Experience with C/C++ on a microcontroller and Python for test automation or data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and debug electrical hardware for test articles: ignition and trigger circuits, control boards, sensor conditioning, power distribution and harnesses.
• Capture schematics, lay out or review PCBs, and produce wiring diagrams and harness drawings.
• Write and debug microcontroller or FPGA firmware for control, sequencing and test systems.
• Help derive and document requirements, specifications and interface drawings for the assemblies you own.
• Integrate instrumentation and data acquisition and turn raw test data into usable results.
• Write test procedures and checkout reports; maintain version control.
• Support test campaigns on-site: pre-test checkouts, interlock verification, operations and post-test teardown.
• Raise technical issues early and chase root causes to fixes.
• Collaborate with mechanical, software and test engineers to close interfaces.

Skills

C/C++ microcontrollers

Python test automation

PCB layout (Altium/KiCad)

GitLab

Analog & digital circuits

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Oscilloscope

DMM

Power supplies

Job description

Longshot Space Technologies Corporation in Alameda, California seeks an early-career electrical engineer to design and build CCAs, microcontroller and FPGA firmware, harnesses, and the test procedures that verify them.

You’ll own projects from the bench to the launcher, balance CAD work with on-site tests, chase root causes, and collaborate with mechanical, software and test engineers to deliver reliable, mission-critical hardware on schedule.