Spacecraft Power Electronics Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Bonus

Employee Stock Option Plan

Comprehensive Medical Coverage

Vision Coverage

Dental Coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Katalyst Space in Colorado is seeking an Electrical Engineer to contribute to the design, iteration, and qualification of the spacecraft Electrical Power System (EPS), including power conversion, distribution, battery interfaces, solar array interfaces, protection circuitry, and subsystem interfaces.

You will draft and review schematics and PCB layouts, support hardware bring-up and test campaigns, and help plan stress and margin testing across voltage, load transients, and thermal limits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years designing, testing, or integrating power electronics or spacecraft EPS hardware.
• Strong switch‑mode power supply design and DC/DC converter understanding.
• Experience schematics/PCB layouts, high-current routing, EMI/EMC practices.
• Proficiency in Altium or similar ECAD tools.
• Exposure to spacecraft power architectures and telemetry interfaces.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and lab testing with oscilloscopes and power supplies.
• Experience integrating power electronics with other subsystems; environmental testing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, iteration, and qualification of EPS.
• Design, modify, and review schematics, PCB layouts, interfaces, and analysis packages.
• Support integrated EPS hardware testing with test engineers.
• Help own integrated functional testing across subsystems.
• Plan and execute targeted stress and margin testing.
• Help define design changes and architecture improvements for future EPS.

Skills

Power electronics

Schematic design

PCB layout

Altium

Debugging hardware

Test procedures

Spacecraft power systems

Telemetry interfaces (SPI/I2C/UART/CAN

Embedded hardware bring-up

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

Katalyst Space in Colorado is seeking an Electrical Engineer to contribute to the design, iteration, and qualification of the spacecraft Electrical Power System (EPS), including power conversion, distribution, battery interfaces, solar array interfaces, protection circuitry, and subsystem interfaces.

You will draft and review schematics and PCB layouts, support hardware bring-up and test campaigns, and help plan stress and margin testing across voltage, load transients, and thermal limits.