Senior Electronic Engineer

TECHNE; Michigan; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TECHNE is seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to join its engineering team focused on a next-generation Power Processing Unit for satellite propulsion. You will drive qualification, reliability testing, and production transition of flight hardware that will fly within the next one to two years.

The role spans analogue and power electronics, RF-related design, and spacecraft electrical power systems, requiring strong hands-on engineering and mentoring of junior staff.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
• Direct experience developing electronics for space, satellite, spacecraft, or flight hardware.
• Strong analogue electronics, power electronics, or RF-related design experience.
• Experience with spacecraft electrical power systems, EPS, PPU, DC-DC converters, or power conversion systems.
• Experience taking electronics from prototype through fabrication, qualification, production, and customer delivery.
• Understanding of radiation hardening, rad-hard design, qualification requirements, and space electronics standards.
• Experience working with Class III or Class 3 space electronics manufacturing requirements.
• Strong hands-on engineering judgement across testing, validation, reliability, and production transition.
• Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Willingness to relocate for the right long-term opportunity.
• Electric propulsion or spacecraft propulsion electronics experience.
• Satellite power electronics or EPS ownership.
• Radiation testing, radiation tolerant design, or rad-hard component selection.
• Vacuum-chamber or thermal-vacuum testing.
• Environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal cycling, or reliability testing.
• IPC, NASA, or space electronics manufacturing standards.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical lead.
• Experience moving electronics into repeatable production.
• Background from new-space, satellite primes, propulsion companies, or space power specialists.
• Technical conference participation or paper presentation experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, validation, and qualification of a next-generation Power Processing Unit
• Work across analogue electronics, power electronics, RF-related design, and spacecraft electrical power systems
• Take flight hardware through design refinement, fabrication, validation, qualification, reliability testing, and production transition
• Support late-stage testing, including vacuum-chamber, environmental, and reliability activities
• Lead and support qualification and production-readiness work for space electronics
• Diagnose complex technical issues across electronics, propulsion behaviour, test data, and production feedback
• Work closely with propulsion, test, manufacturing, quality, and engineering leadership teams
• Provide technical advice and mentoring to junior engineers and interns
• Support production issues as the product moves into repeatable manufacturing
• Contribute to next-generation and higher-power electronics projects after the initial production sprint

Skills

Space electronics

Power electronics

Analog electronics

RF design

EPS/PPU knowledge

Prototype to production

Mentoring

Education

Electrical/Electronics Engineering or Physics degree

Job description

TECHNE is supporting a specialist space technology company in the search for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join their growing engineering team.

The company develops flight-proven electric propulsion systems for commercial, civil, and defence satellite missions. Their technology is already operating on active satellite programmes, and the business is now scaling manufacturing, qualification, and next-generation product development with the backing of a larger aerospace group.

This role is focused on a next-generation Power Processing Unit, the electronics system that drives an electric propulsion thruster. The prototype is already complete, so the focus is taking the system through validation, reliability testing, qualification, and production transition.

You will work on complex space electronics with a strong analogue and power electronics focus, helping qualify hardware that will fly and manoeuvre satellites within the next one to two years.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development, validation, and qualification of a next-generation Power Processing Unit
• Work across analogue electronics, power electronics, RF-related design, and spacecraft electrical power systems
• Take flight hardware through design refinement, fabrication, validation, qualification, reliability testing, and production transition
• Support late-stage testing, including vacuum-chamber, environmental, and reliability activities
• Lead and support qualification and production-readiness work for space electronics
• Diagnose complex technical issues across electronics, propulsion behaviour, test data, and production feedback
• Work closely with propulsion, test, manufacturing, quality, and engineering leadership teams
• Provide technical advice and mentoring to junior engineers and interns
• Support production issues as the product moves into repeatable manufacturing
• Contribute to next-generation and higher-power electronics projects after the initial production sprint

Required Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• Direct experience developing electronics for space, satellite, spacecraft, or flight hardware
• Strong analogue electronics, power electronics, or RF-related design experience
• Experience with spacecraft electrical power systems, EPS, PPU, DC-DC converters, or power conversion systems
• Experience taking electronics from prototype through fabrication, qualification, production, and customer delivery
• Understanding of radiation hardening, rad-hard design, qualification requirements, and space electronics standards
• Experience working with Class III or Class 3 space electronics manufacturing requirements
• Strong hands-on engineering judgement across testing, validation, reliability, and production transition
• Ability to work closely with multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing teams
• Willingness to relocate for the right long-term opportunity
• Electric propulsion or spacecraft propulsion electronics experience
• Satellite power electronics or EPS ownership
• Radiation testing, radiation tolerant design, or rad-hard component selection
• Vacuum-chamber or thermal-vacuum testing
• Environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal cycling, or reliability testing
• IPC, NASA, or space electronics manufacturing standards
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical lead
• Experience moving electronics into repeatable production
• Background from new-space, satellite primes, propulsion companies, or space power specialists
• Technical conference participation or paper presentation experience

This is an opportunity to join a focused, engineering-led space company developing flight-proven propulsion systems with the backing and stability of a larger aerospace organisation.

The role offers significant technical ownership, hands-on influence, and the chance to work on electronics that will fly. You will join at the point where the prototype exists, but the qualification, reliability, and production decisions still need senior engineering input.