Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Round-Peg Solutions (RPS); Redondo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Impulse Space is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer (Digital) to own the high-speed digital architecture behind next generation spacecraft radio systems. You will lead end-to-end hardware design from concept to flight hardware and be hands-on in the lab bringing up boards and validating performance.

The role requires owning schematics and PCB implementation, solving high-speed routing, and collaborating across RF, power, thermal, and manufacturing teams to deliver production-ready hardware.

Qualifications

• End-to-end hardware design experience from concept to flight-ready hardware.
• Hands-on board bring-up, debugging and hardware validation in lab environment.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces and complex board-level systems.

Responsibilities

• Own digital hardware architecture from initial concept through flight hardware.
• Select and integrate FPGA/SoC, memory, PHYs, clocks and supporting digital components.
• Own schematic capture and dense PCB implementation for high-speed boards.
• Solve signal integrity, power integrity, EMI and board-level integration challenges.
• Define requirements for interfaces like DDR, SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet and high-speed ADC/DAC connectivity.
• Perform hands-on bring-up and hardware validation in lab environments.
• Carry designs through prototype, integration, qualification and production.
• Collaborate with RF, FPGA/ software, power, mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing engineers.

Skills

Digital hardware architecture

FPGA/SoC integration

Board bring-up & lab debugging

High-speed digital design

Tools

Oscilloscopes

PCB design tools

DDR/SERDES/PCIe interfaces

Job description

Are you a Senior Electrical Engineer who wants to own complex digital hardware full-cycle (defining initial architecture through to validation)?

Do you want to define the next generation of spacecraft communications hardware rather than owning one small piece of the design?

We are exclusively hiring a Senior Electrical Engineer (Digital) for Impulse Space, you will take ownership of the high-speed digital architecture behind next generation of spacecraft radio systems.

This is a genuinely end-to-end hardware design role. Starting with a clean-sheet requirement, you will determine how the digital system should be architected, select the FPGA/SoC, memory and supporting components, define interfaces and connectivity, develop the schematics, and drive the detailed PCB design and high-speed layout.

Your ownership continues when the hardware arrives. You will be hands-on in the lab bringing up your own boards, debugging problems, validating performance and taking the hardware through integration and qualification.

As the Senior Electrical Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Owning the digital hardware architecture from initial concept through flight-ready hardware
• Select and integrate FPGA/SoC devices, external memory, high-speed converters, PHYs, clocks, power devices and supporting digital components
• Own schematic capture and detailed PCB implementation for dense, high-speed multilayer circuit boards
• Solve complex BGA breakout, high-speed routing, signal integrity, power integrity, EMI and board-level integration challenges
• Define requirements and constraints for interfaces including DDR, SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet and high-speed ADC/DAC connectivity
• Perform hands-on board bring-up, lab debugging and hardware validation, using oscilloscopes and other test equipment to diagnose issues within complex digital systems
• Carry your designs through prototype, integration, qualification and production, rather than handing them to another team after the design phase
• Collaborate closely with RF, FPGA/software, power, mechanical, thermal and manufacturing engineers to develop complete spacecraft radio systems
• Help define the architecture and technology roadmap for future generations of increasingly high-speed spacecraft communications hardware

Space or radio experience is not essential. Impulse is primarily looking for exceptional high-speed digital hardware engineers who have owned complex board-level systems. Relevant experience could come from spacecraft, defense, robotics, automotive, computing, networking, communications or advanced semiconductor evaluation/reference hardware.

In return, you will join an engineering environment built around ownership rather than silos. You will have the opportunity to take a complex system from a blank sheet of paper to working flight hardware, with the technical freedom, mentorship and resources to make major architecture decisions yourself.

For an engineer who has reached the limits of what they can own within a larger organization, this represents the opportunity to take on broader technical responsibility, greater influence and significantly more end-to-end ownership while developing cutting-edge hardware that will operate in space.