Spacecraft Power Systems Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Stock options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Job summary

Katalyst Space in Colorado is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer focused on spacecraft power systems. You will iterate schematics, boards, and interfaces to boost performance and enable feature upgrades while collaborating with test engineers during qualification campaigns.

You’ll own integrated functional testing and drive stress/performance testing to push hardware to design limits, ensuring future mission readiness and system reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent field.
• 3+ years of experience designing, testing, or integrating power electronics or closely related high-reliability power systems.
• Strong understanding of switch mode power supply design and DC/DC converter architectures.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the iteration of Katalyst’s spacecraft power system design, including schematics, board layouts, and interface definitions, to improve performance and complete feature upgrades.
• Support operation of power system hardware during qualification testing, working directly with test engineers to execute thermal vacuum and vibration qualification test campaigns.
• Help own integrated functional testing of electrical hardware with other spacecraft subsystems.
• Plan and execute targeted stress and performance testing, exercising hardware to design extremes through targeted performance testing.
• Help define and plan design changes for feature or architecture improvement of the spacecraft power system with respect to future mission requirements.

Skills

Power electronics

Hardware bring-up

Test procedures

Analog/digital troubleshooting

Subsystem integration

SPI

I2C

UART

CAN

Ethernet

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium

Job description

Katalyst Space in Colorado is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer focused on spacecraft power systems. You will iterate schematics, boards, and interfaces to boost performance and enable feature upgrades while collaborating with test engineers during qualification campaigns.

You’ll own integrated functional testing and drive stress/performance testing to push hardware to design limits, ensuring future mission readiness and system reliability.