Spacecraft Electrical Engineer

EVONA; California; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity with a forward-thinking company in the aerospace sector is available for an Electrical Engineer. This role will allow you to take ownership of designing and testing hardware for spacecraft, contributing to innovative projects that aim to enhance satellite technology. You will be involved in the entire process from component selection to prototyping and testing, ensuring high reliability in electrical systems. If you are passionate about making systems smarter and more efficient, this is the perfect chance to make a significant impact in the field of space technology.

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years of hardware development experience in PCB design and electronic prototyping.
• Advanced proficiency with schematic capture tools, ideally Altium.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high reliability electrical systems and PCBs for satellite devices.
• Perform PCB troubleshooting and root cause analysis down to component level.

Skills

PCB design

Electrical systems design

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Schematic capture

Prototyping

Documentation

Requirements management

Embedded systems

Circuit simulation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Power supplies

Logic analyzers

LTSpice

Job description

Our exciting Space client in Orange County is looking for an Electrical Engineer to have ownership over the design and testing of hardware designs for spacecraft bus and/or payload development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high reliability electrical systems and PCBs for satellite devices.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test.
• Perform PCB troubleshooting and root cause analysis down to component level.
• Define and lead satellite harness definition and fabrication processes.
• Prepare fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, BOMs, and general documentation required for design transfer to fabrication and assembly.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required.
• Ideally 2 – 4+ years of hardware development experience in PCB board design and layout and electronic system prototyping and validation.
• Advanced proficiency with design tools for schematic capture (Altium preferred).
• Comfortable working in the lab with oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and logic analyzers.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper.
• Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources.
• Experience with developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware.
• Experience with circuit simulation tools such as LTSpice.
• Soldering skills on surface mount and thru-hole components.
• Experience with switching power supply design.
• Experience with requirements management.
• Experience with system verification and validation.
• Embedded systems and microcontroller implementation and programming.
• Experience with high performance digital processors, FPGAs, memory chips, or network switches.

If you are interested, then please apply today!

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering, Design, and Production

Industries

Defense and Space Manufacturing, Space Research and Technology, and Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing