Senior Electrical Engineer: Spaceflight Hardware & Power

Lunar Outpost European Union; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Paid time off

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Lunar Outpost seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead end‑to‑end electrical hardware development for spaceflight and lunar systems. You’ll design, test, and integrate boards, power circuitry, and high‑speed interfaces in a fast‑paced startup environment, collaborating with mechanical, software, and systems teams to deliver robust hardware for lunar missions.

You’ll contribute to prototype to flight‑level hardware with a focus on reliability, signal integrity, and spaceflight‑readiness,

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience developing electrical hardware for aerospace, spaceflight, or other safety‑critical systems.
• Hands‑on experience designing electrical systems, including schematic design and signal integrity‑aware layout considerations.
• Good foundation in analog and digital circuit design, including power regulation, communications, sensing, and control.
• Experience designing with data interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, RS‑422, RS‑485, CAN, Ethernet, USB, and SpaceWire.
• Experience with board‑level power design, including DC/DC conversion, point‑of‑load regulation, power sequencing, and protection circuits.
• Hands‑on experience supporting board bring‑up, integration, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently work on hardware designs and make sound engineering tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self‑motivated, organized, and comfortable operating in a fast‑paced hardware development environment.
• U.S. Person

Responsibilities

• Perform schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring‑up, and verification on development and spaceflight hardware.
• Design, simulate, and review mixed‑signal circuits integrating digital logic, analog interfaces, sensing, control, and on‑board power conversion.
• Design board‑level power circuitry, including DC/DC converters, point‑of‑load regulation, power distribution, sequencing, and protection
• Support high‑speed electrical designs (e.g., LVDS, Ethernet, SpaceWire, PCIe, or equivalent interfaces) with attention to signal integrity
• Support cable harness design and documentation
• Collaborate closely with mechanical, thermal, software, harnessing, and systems engineering to ensure robust hardware integration
• Support component selection (processors, FPGAs, memories, connectors, converters) with consideration for spaceflight environments
• Support and maintain a high quality ECAD component library
• Participate in test campaigns including functional, environmental, EMI/EMC, and system level testing

Skills

Electrical hardware design

Signal integrity

Written and verbal communication

Independent hardware design

Fast-paced hardware environment

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Lunar Outpost seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead end‑to‑end electrical hardware development for spaceflight and lunar systems. You’ll design, test, and integrate boards, power circuitry, and high‑speed interfaces in a fast‑paced startup environment, collaborating with mechanical, software, and systems teams to deliver robust hardware for lunar missions.

You’ll contribute to prototype to flight‑level hardware with a focus on reliability, signal integrity, and spaceflight‑readiness,