Senior Spacecraft C&DH Engineer - Avionics Architect Lead

The Boeing Company; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is seeking a Senior Spacecraft C&DH Engineer to drive architectural decisions for electrical hardware and avionics across mission programs. You will lead trade analyses, define requirements, and guide verification activities to ensure performance, manufacturability and cost targets are met.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate on FDIR strategies, and participate in high-stakes design reviews, with roles spanning Level 4 and Level 5

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace, or related discipline and 9+ years of related work experience.
• 9+ years of experience with spacecraft communication protocols such as SpaceWire, Ethernet, RS-422/485, LVDS.
• 7+ years of experience in the design, analysis, and integration of spacecraft electrical hardware or complex avionics systems.
• Ability to obtain U.S. Security Clearance; U.S. Citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Architect C&DH subsystem architectures that drive system-level design decisions and ensure alignment with mission objectives, constraints, and fault management requirements.
• Lead the selection and trade analysis of avionics architectures to balance mission requirements with performance, power, mass, and cost.
• Drive the definition of requirements, interface control documents, and verification activities.
• Direct high-fidelity analyses for data budgets, signal integrity, clock drift, jitter, and EMI/EMC compatibility to guarantee design margins and reliability.
• Own vendor selection and trade studies, producing make/buy recommendations that balance technical risk, schedule, cost, and long-term lifecycle support.
• Lead the identification and resolution of complex technical issues related to avionics and electrical hardware throughout the design, integration, and testing phases.
• Collaborate on Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) strategies, ensuring architectures are resilient and providing technical expertise for mission operations and system health assessment.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers to foster technical excellence and scale the group's engineering capabilities.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

SpaceWire

Ethernet

RS-422/485

LVDS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace, or related discipline

Advanced degree (M.S./Ph.D.) in engineering

Job description

Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, is seeking a Senior Spacecraft C&DH Engineer to drive architectural decisions for electrical hardware and avionics across mission programs. You will lead trade analyses, define requirements, and guide verification activities to ensure performance, manufacturability and cost targets are met.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate on FDIR strategies, and participate in high-stakes design reviews, with roles spanning Level 4 and Level 5