Flight-Grade Avionics Hardware Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Relocation support

Stock options

Parental leave

401(k) with match

Job summary

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks an Avionics Hardware Development Engineer to own hardware across lifecycle, delivering spaceflight components. You will design, test, and qualify mixed-signal electronics for flight use, taking responsibility from concept to production while pushing for robust, flight-ready hardware.

Join a team with backgrounds from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and pharma, offering strong benefits, relocation support, and equity in a fast-growing space start-up

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineer or related field.
• 3+ years of direct experience designing electronics hardware — schematic capture, PCB layout, and board bring-up.
• Demonstrated experience designing flight hardware circuit boards — schematic capture through functional test — on programs where hardware physically flew or was qualified for flight.
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility for components you contribute towards.
• Strong hands‑on experience with oscilloscopes, function generators, benchtop digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Understanding of analog/digital filtering, mixed‑signal circuit design, analysis, and test.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power, grounding, and general board layout principles.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting/data analysis language.
• Understanding of sensor and actuator technologies including: RTD’s, pressure transducers, DC brushless motors, solenoid valves, thermocouples, hydraulic servo valves, LVDT, RVDT, Rotary/Linear Encoders.
• Don’t worry if you don’t check 100% of these boxes... We want to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Develop mixed-signal designs and shepherd them through the full product lifecycle including requirements definition, design, development, qualification, and release to production.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and roadmap direction.
• Support risk analyses, design for test/manufacture/cost, and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
• Design electrical circuit boards.
• Collaborate on mechanical design fit, form, and function.
• Functionally test your hardware through thermal, vibe, shock, TVAC, and EMI.
• Write vehicle level integration test plans to validate for flight.
• Perform root cause analysis for test failures and develop mitigation strategies for flight risks.
• Example of Avionics Products you'll be working on: flight computers, networking, star trackers, reaction wheels, magnetorquers, payload controllers, battery packs, solar charger, RF transceiver and decoder.

Skills

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Board bring-up

Oscilloscopes

Signal integrity

Python

MATLAB

Flight hardware

Altium Designer

Education

B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Varda Space Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks an Avionics Hardware Development Engineer to own hardware across lifecycle, delivering spaceflight components. You will design, test, and qualify mixed-signal electronics for flight use, taking responsibility from concept to production while pushing for robust, flight-ready hardware.

Join a team with backgrounds from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and pharma, offering strong benefits, relocation support, and equity in a fast-growing space start-up