Spacecraft Avionics Engineer — Hardware & Power Systems

Stanford Climate Ventures; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

General Galactic Technologies Corporation designs, builds, and flies advanced spacecraft, led by a team of former SpaceX and Relativity engineers. We seek an Electrical Engineer to develop avionics for our 2026–2027 missions, owning electrical system development, testing, and documentation.

You will work on schematic capture, PCB layout, wiring harnesses, and hardware debugging, with emphasis on reliability and environmental qualification in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• BS in electrical engineering, computer engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of electrical hardware development experience, preferably in aerospace.
• Experience with schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, and hardware debugging.
• Experience designing analog, digital, power, and embedded electrical systems.
• Familiarity with CAN, RS-422, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, and discrete I/O.
• Experience with wiring harness design, connector selection, grounding, shielding, and EMC considerations.
• Proficiency with electrical test equipment such as oscilloscopes and power supplies.
• Experience with ECAD tools such as Altium, KiCad, OrCAD.
• Understanding of radiation effects, thermal constraints, and high-reliability design.
• Experience in environmental testing, qualification, and corrective actions.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup or hands-on environment.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver spacecraft electrical systems that meet power, performance, reliability, and interface requirements.
• Own schematic capture, component selection, PCB layout, fabrication, assembly, and board bring-up.
• Design avionics, power electronics, sensor interfaces, communication interfaces, and microcontroller-based hardware.
• Develop and integrate spacecraft wiring harnesses, connectors, grounding, shielding, and electrical I/O documentation.
• Perform bench testing, debugging, root-cause analysis, and design iteration on flight and ground hardware.
• Support system integration, environmental testing, qualification, and acceptance testing.
• Maintain clear design documentation, schematics, BOMs, test procedures, and test reports.

Skills

Electrical hardware

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Analog design

Digital design

Power electronics

CAN interfaces

RS-422 interfaces

SPI I2C UART

EMC considerations

ECAD tools

Education

BS in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium

KiCad

OrCAD

Job description

General Galactic Technologies Corporation designs, builds, and flies advanced spacecraft, led by a team of former SpaceX and Relativity engineers. We seek an Electrical Engineer to develop avionics for our 2026–2027 missions, owning electrical system development, testing, and documentation.

You will work on schematic capture, PCB layout, wiring harnesses, and hardware debugging, with emphasis on reliability and environmental qualification in a fast-paced startup.