Flight-Critical Avionics Hardware Engineer — Spacecraft

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Varda Space Industries seeks a Senior Avionics Hardware Development Engineer to design and deliver flight-critical electrical hardware for satellite bus, reentry vehicle, and payloads. You will own your hardware domain from schematic capture through flight qualification and define safe operating criteria for mission operations teams.

We stress our components beyond flight expectations, conducting thorough failure investigations and providing system-level integration plans.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of direct experience designing electronics hardware - schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, and environmental qualification - for aerospace, automotive, or other high-reliability industries.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to complex electronics systems from design to production/deployment.
• Advanced PCB design expertise, knowledge of high speed signal integrity, power and grounding, electromagnetic compatibility.
• Experience taking complex PCB designs through fabrication and assembly.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting/data analysis language.
• Demonstrated experience implementing hardware interfaces such as SPI, RS-422, and 1000BASE-T.
• Power electronics design experience including load switches and switch mode DC-DC converters.

Responsibilities

• PCB level electronics design at all lifecycle stages, from schematic capture, to layout, to design validation,fabrication/assembly,and manufacturing test.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and roadmap direction
• Avionics subject matter expert for satellite, reentry vehicle, and payloadhardware. Providing support to those using your products, namely the Varda GNC, pharmaceutical, mission operations, and integration teams.
• Actively collaborate with cross functional teams such as flight software, thermal, GNC, and structures todetermineacross vehiclesystemimpacts of design decisions.
• Ownership of product acceptance and qualification testing for space environments (Thermal, Vibe, Shock, TVAC, and EMI) with support from the Avionics Test team.
• Provide direction on system-level integration test plans to verify your hardware performs as expected at the vehicle level.
• Perform root cause analysis on test failures and implement holistic mitigation strategies for flight risks.
• Mentor junior engineers on their projects, challenges, and design methodologies setting a high bar for the future leaders of Varda.

Skills

PCB design

Schematic capture

Board bring-up

Environmental qualification

High speed signaling

Power electronics

EMC

SPI/RS-422/1000BASE-T

Python/MATLAB scripting

Altium

KiCad

Diagnostics & test

Education

B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

Job description

Varda Space Industries seeks a Senior Avionics Hardware Development Engineer to design and deliver flight-critical electrical hardware for satellite bus, reentry vehicle, and payloads. You will own your hardware domain from schematic capture through flight qualification and define safe operating criteria for mission operations teams.

We stress our components beyond flight expectations, conducting thorough failure investigations and providing system-level integration plans.