Satellite Hardware Engineer — Bring-Up & High-Speed PCB

GCS Recruitment; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in Los Angeles seeks a hands-on Electrical Engineer for satellite hardware. You’ll own bring-up, validation, and debugging of high‑speed digital boards and phased‑array systems in a lab environment, turning prototypes into flight‑ready hardware.

Experience with DDR, PCIe, JESD204, SerDes, and Ethernet 25G+ is preferred. You’ll partner with design, test, and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot electrical, signal integrity, and power issues, execute validation plans, and influence

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hardware-focused Electrical Engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and debugging complex PCBs.
• Strong expertise in board bring-up, validation, and root-cause analysis.
• Deep familiarity with DDR, PCIe, JESD204, Ethernet (25G+), SerDes-based architectures.
• Extensive hands-on use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, high-speed test equipment.
• Experience supporting products from concept through manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead first-time bring-up of complex satellite electronics and high-performance digital hardware.
• Power-on, debug, and validate newly fabricated boards.
• Investigate and resolve electrical, signal integrity, power integrity, and system-level issues.
• Execute validation plans covering functionality, performance, reliability, and high-speed interfaces.
• Drive hardware improvements by partnering with design engineers on future revisions.
• Support integration and test activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Deliver thoroughly validated hardware ready for downstream system and antenna testing.
• Influence next-generation designs through hands-on engineering feedback.

Skills

PCB design

Board bring-up

Signal integrity

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Python scripting

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Protocol analyzers

High-speed test equipment

Job description

GCS Recruitment in Los Angeles seeks a hands-on Electrical Engineer for satellite hardware. You’ll own bring-up, validation, and debugging of high‑speed digital boards and phased‑array systems in a lab environment, turning prototypes into flight‑ready hardware.

Experience with DDR, PCIe, JESD204, SerDes, and Ethernet 25G+ is preferred. You’ll partner with design, test, and manufacturing teams to troubleshoot electrical, signal integrity, and power issues, execute validation plans, and influence