Senior Staff Electrical Engineer - Space RF & Board Design

Roman Health Pharmacy LLC; Westminster (CO); On-site; USD 184,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental, vision benefits

Retirement plans

Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to own the full lifecycle of electronics hardware design for advanced RF communication systems used in space and airborne platforms.

You will lead investigations, perform rigorous design reviews, and drive hardware architecture decisions while coordinating with software and mechanical teams to deliver robust, producible hardware for mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required; accredited university.
• Minimum 12 years in board-level electronics design, analysis, and test.
• Experience designing electronics with rigorous analysis and testing.
• Expertise in digital and mixed-signal electronics (signal integrity, FPGA on boards, ADCs/DACs, telemetry).
• Experience owning the design phase of complex board-level electronics, including trade studies, key part selection, and detailed design.
• Experience delivering hardware designs through production and deployment.
• HDI PCB layout and high-speed routing.
• Experience with SI/PI simulation tools such as Ansys SIwave, ADSSiPro, or Mentor HyperLynx.
• Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and design reviews.
• Power converter design for digital boards.
• Cross-discipline collaboration with software and mechanical teams.
• Extensive lab bring-up and verification experience.
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC concepts and design to mitigate effects.
• Understanding of military and/or DO standards.
• Experience with design qualification and production lifecycle.
• Led small teams of hardware engineers on multi-module assemblies.

Responsibilities

• Own full lifecycle of board-level and system-level electronics hardware design and implementation.
• Help drive overall program direction with deep electrical design and test expertise.
• Lead small hardware teams to develop multi-module assemblies and interconnects.

Skills

Digital & mixed-signal design

FPGA on boards

HDI PCB layout

Signal integrity / PI simulation

EMI/EMC knowledge

Lab bring-up & verification

Team leadership

Power converter design

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Ansys SIwave

ADSSiPro

Mentor HyperLynx

HDI PCB layout

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer to own the full lifecycle of electronics hardware design for advanced RF communication systems used in space and airborne platforms.

You will lead investigations, perform rigorous design reviews, and drive hardware architecture decisions while coordinating with software and mechanical teams to deliver robust, producible hardware for mission-critical applications.