Senior Hardware Design Engineer | Aerospace PCB & Avionics

Firefly Aerospace, Inc.; Cedar Park (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision plans

Parental leave

Relocation benefits

Educational reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a hands-on Senior Electrical Engineer to own circuit card design for our common avionics platform used across vehicles. You’ll lead schematic capture, layout, component selection, simulations, and rapid prototyping for flight hardware in Cedar Park, TX.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in PCB design, strong collaboration across engineering disciplines, and experience with aerospace guidelines and test equipment.

Qualifications

• BS in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hands-on PCB design, hardware development, and integration.
• Strong schematic capture and layout for digital, analog and power circuits; Altium preferred.
• Experience in end-to-end definition, requirement generation, block-diagram design, and simulations.
• Proficient with test equipment; able to work with vendors.
• Excellent organizational skills and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end circuit card development for flight hardware.
• Develop features for avionics platform used across launch vehicles and spacecraft.
• Conduct trades, capture requirements, and perform detailed design activities.
• Collaborate with systems, mechanical, software and test teams.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis with test equipment.

Skills

PCB design

Schematic capture

Hardware development

Electrical troubleshooting

Component selection

Circuit simulations

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a hands-on Senior Electrical Engineer to own circuit card design for our common avionics platform used across vehicles. You’ll lead schematic capture, layout, component selection, simulations, and rapid prototyping for flight hardware in Cedar Park, TX.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in PCB design, strong collaboration across engineering disciplines, and experience with aerospace guidelines and test equipment.