Sr. Electrical Engineer

SpaceNews; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceNews is seeking electrical engineers to join a dynamic team designing high-speed digital electronics for space applications. The role involves developing circuits, analog conditioning, and collaborating across disciplines to meet program goals.

Candidates should have advanced degrees in electrical engineering and hands-on experience with space-qualified hardware, PCB layouts, and reliability analysis. Clearance capability is preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years experience.
• Experience in design, analysis, integration, and test of custom electronics.
• Proficiency in electrical design software and simulation tools (e.g., Altium, SPICE, MATLAB, Simulink, HyperLynx, MS Office).
• Ability to conduct circuit analysis and simulation to optimize performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design custom high speed digital electronics using ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, processors, and communications drivers.
• Design and analyze analog circuits including low-noise signal conditioning and power amplifiers.
• Collaborate with peers, leads, and managers to meet program technical needs within time and budget.
• Support electronics manufacturing and test within a broad-disciplined program team.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills

Electrical design

Circuit analysis

Space electronics

Test & verification

Communication

Education

Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

SPICE

MATLAB

Simulink

HyperLynx

MS Office

Job description

AV provides a full suite of exquisite, space-qualified hardware trusted to fly in the most extreme environments space presents across GEO, MEO, LEO and Cislunar orbits. With hundreds of systems flying in space, our customers turn to AV when a mission can’t fail. Our team is expanding to do the big things that have never been done before – the things the nation and the world are counting on us to deliver. Join the transformation and help us make this impact now.We are seeking electrical engineers at all levels. The selected candidates will join a dynamic team working to put Great Systems on Orbit with capabilities to perform leading edge tasks in laser communications, space electronics and sensors.

Position Responsibilities

• Design custom high speed digital electronics including the use of ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, processors, and communications drivers.
• Design, and conduct analysis of, analog circuits including low-noise signal conditioning and power amplifiers. Provide expertise to both product development and R&D efforts.
• Collaborate with peers, leads, and managers to develop, review, and refine designs and analyses to meet program technical needs within defined time and budget constraints.
• Work within a broad-disciplined program team providing expertise in support of electronics manufacturing and test.
• All other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering with 5 years of experience or a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minimum of 8 years of experience can be considered instead of a master’s degree.
• Experience in design, analysis, integration, and test of custom electronics
• Proficiency in electrical design software and simulation tools (such as Altium, SPICE, MATLAB, Simulink, HyperLynx, and MS Office).
• Ability to conduct circuit analysis and simulation to optimize performance and reliability.

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies

• Understanding of space qualification standards and requirements.
• Experience designing custom electronics for space products.
• Experience designing to a defined requirements.
• Experience with analysis necessary for high reliability space electronics hardware (Electrical stress analysis, worst case circuit analysis, and reliability analysis).
• Experience producing PCB layouts
• Experience and understanding of PCB manufacturing and assembly processes.
• Understanding of relevant IPC standards needed for electrical design and fabrication.
• Experience developing and conducting testing of complex electronic sub-assemblies along with design of special test equipment (STE).
• Experience deriving sub-assembly requirements from higher-level, flowed down, system requirements and defining test methodologies.
• Experience developing design & verification documentation (Interface Control Document/Drawings (ICD), Design Description Document (DDD), Test Plan, Test Procedures, Test Reports, etc.).
• Written and verbal communication skills necessary to present designs to internal and external stakeholders.
• Able to complete assigned work within a defined timeline and budget.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in an office and manufacturing environment (Constant)
• Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)