Electrical Engineer - Spaceflight Optics, Stock Options

Endeavor Optical Networks Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Endeavor Optical Networks Inc. in Culver City, CA, seeks an Electrical Engineer to design, lay out, and bring up electronics for the terminal and payload. You will translate subsystem power and readout needs into schematics and boards while coordinating with optical seats and test teams.

The role covers spaceflight hardware, BER and high-speed signal chains, and involves qualification campaigns for space hardware with a seed-stage team. Onsite work with potential relocation support is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline.
• Board-level design experience across schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Hands-on bring-up and debug depth with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and lab instrumentation.
• Analog and mixed-signal circuit fundamentals.
• Proficiency with a professional EDA tool (Altium Designer, KiCad, Cadence, or equivalent).
• Comfort moving fast and making sound calls without complete data.

Responsibilities

• Design, lay out, and bring up electronics across the terminal and payload, owning your boards from schematic through validated hardware.
• Define electrical interfaces with the optical seats, translating each subsystem's power, drive, and readout needs into schematics and boards.
• Select, evaluate, and qualify components, balancing performance, availability, and lead time at seed-stage speed.
• Characterize and debug at the bench, chasing issues across electrical, optical, and software boundaries.
• Support integration and test as the optical chain and payload come together.
• Document designs, test results, and bring-up procedures so hardware can be rebuilt and debugged by others.

Skills

Board-level design

Analog & mixed-signal

High-speed design

Bring-up & debug

Python or MATLAB

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Tools

Altium Designer

KiCad

Cadence

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Endeavor Optical Networks Inc. in Culver City, CA, seeks an Electrical Engineer to design, lay out, and bring up electronics for the terminal and payload. You will translate subsystem power and readout needs into schematics and boards while coordinating with optical seats and test teams.

The role covers spaceflight hardware, BER and high-speed signal chains, and involves qualification campaigns for space hardware with a seed-stage team. Onsite work with potential relocation support is available.