Electrical Engineer – Space Telemetry for Suborbital Rockets

Peraton; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks an Electrical Engineer - Telemetry to support NSROC at Wallops Flight Facility, VA. You will design, integrate, test, and operate sounding rocket telemetry systems across the mission life cycle, handling PCM data encoding, RF hardware, and ground data interfaces.

You will troubleshoot with electrical and RF test instrumentation, develop requirements and matrices, and contribute to field operations and launch rehearsals on multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related STEM field.
• Two or more years of engineering experience with telemetry, RF systems, or related electrical subsystems.
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting electrical components, subsystems, and test equipment.
• Familiarity with electrical and RF test instrumentation (power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers).
• Ability to understand schematics, technical documentation, and detailed test/operating procedures.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain a NASA PIV badge.

Responsibilities

• Produce and present technical material for internal and external customer meetings.
• Develop mission telemetry requirements, measurement lists, and PCM encoder matrices.
• Configure, integrate, and test PCM encoders, data acquisition hardware, RF transmitters, antennas, and ground telemetry checkout equipment.
• Perform system-level troubleshooting using electrical and RF test instrumentation.
• Support telemetry system integration, acceptance testing, launch rehearsals, field operations, and transition to new telemetry hardware/software.
• Generate and maintain engineering documentation supporting telemetry system design, test, configuration, and field operations.
• Manage assigned design and development activities; may serve as the lead electrical engineer for sounding rocket missions.

Skills

Telemetry

RF systems

Data acquisition

Electrical engineering

Schematics reading

US citizenship

NASA PIV badge eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's or master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum analyzers

Network analyzers

Digital multimeters (DMMs)

Power supplies

FPGA/VHDL

Embedded microcontrollers

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

Job description

Peraton seeks an Electrical Engineer - Telemetry to support NSROC at Wallops Flight Facility, VA. You will design, integrate, test, and operate sounding rocket telemetry systems across the mission life cycle, handling PCM data encoding, RF hardware, and ground data interfaces.

You will troubleshoot with electrical and RF test instrumentation, develop requirements and matrices, and contribute to field operations and launch rehearsals on multidisciplinary teams.