Spacecraft EPS Engineer — Power Electronics & Testing

Katalyst Space; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Employee Stock Option and Equity Plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Competitive base salary

Job summary

Katalyst Space in Colorado is hiring an Electrical Engineer to design and qualify spacecraft EPS power systems. You will work on power conversion, distribution, battery interfaces, and EMI-aware layouts, collaborating with test engineers to verify performance across nominal and fault conditions.

You’ll plan stress and margin tests, help define system improvements, and support hardware bring-up with avionics and subsystems in a high-reliability space environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent field.
• 3+ years designing, testing, or integrating high-reliability power systems.
• Strong switch-mode power supply and DC/DC converter knowledge.
• Experience drafting schematics and PCB layouts for power electronics.
• Proficiency with Altium and EMI/EMC-aware layout practices.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, bench testing, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, iteration, and qualification of spacecraft EPS power system.
• Design, modify, and review schematics and PCB layouts for power electronics.
• Support EPS hardware integration in functional, performance, and qualification tests.
• Own integrated functional testing with avionics and subsystems across fault cases.
• Plan stress, margin, and performance testing across design extremes.
• Define design changes and architecture improvements for future EPS.

Skills

Switch-mode PS design

DC/DC converters

PCB layouts

EMI/EMC-aware layout

Altium

Power electronics debugging

Schematic capture

Oscilloscopes

SPI / I2C / CAN / Ethernet

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium

ECAD tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

DMMs

Job description

Katalyst Space in Colorado is hiring an Electrical Engineer to design and qualify spacecraft EPS power systems. You will work on power conversion, distribution, battery interfaces, and EMI-aware layouts, collaborating with test engineers to verify performance across nominal and fault conditions.

You’ll plan stress and margin tests, help define system improvements, and support hardware bring-up with avionics and subsystems in a high-reliability space environment.