Senior AI Satellite Hardware Engineer – Orbit Compute

United States Digital Space LLC; Lockhart (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC develops Starmind, a constellation powering AI compute in space. As a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer, you own hardware lifecycle from concept to flight, interfacing across mechanical, thermal, and software teams.

Work involves high-reliability power electronics, mixed-signal design, and on-orbit performance. ITAR compliance and travel may be required; strong Python/C/C++ skills are desired.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics.
• 5+ years of industry experience designing circuits, electronic products, or hardware.
• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar.
• 2+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
• 2+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life-cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware.
• 2+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components.
• 2+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.
• 2+ years working on aerospace systems.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly develop high-reliability electronics for satellites and spacecraft.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, test, and on-orbit performance of complex electrical designs
• Get hands-on and support hardware through production, satellite integration, and flight
• Determine layer stackup, perform component package selection, component placement, routing feasibility studies, and signal routing of digital, analog, RF, and power conversion of PCBs
• Library creation and maintenance
• Create and release documentation for fabrication of PCBs
• Collaborate with internal teams and PCB vendors to continually improve design rules, constraints and design for test and manufacture guidelines
• Work closely with engineers from adjacent disciplines (mechanical, thermal, software, test engineering, supply chain, silicon design, etc.) to deliver tightly integrated, high-performance hardware
• Challenge assumptions, question requirements, learn from your mistakes, and approach problems with an open mind

Skills

Python

C/C++

Cross-functional collaboration

Aerospace systems experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or similar

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC develops Starmind, a constellation powering AI compute in space. As a Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer, you own hardware lifecycle from concept to flight, interfacing across mechanical, thermal, and software teams.

Work involves high-reliability power electronics, mixed-signal design, and on-orbit performance. ITAR compliance and travel may be required; strong Python/C/C++ skills are desired.