Staff Electrical Hardware Design Engineer: Flight-Ready PCBAs

Entangled Future; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 146,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Capella Space is seeking a Staff Electrical Hardware Design Engineer in Louisville, CO to own the full electrical design lifecycle for complex spaceflight hardware, from concept to flight readiness. You will collaborate across RF, mechanical, software, FPGA/SoC, and operations teams to deliver high-reliability electronics for orbit.

Qualification includes a Bachelor’s and 8+ years of PCB design experience, strong Altium skills, and hands-on lab instrument proficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience designing and debugging PCBAs.
• Proficiency in Altium Designer (or similar ECAD tools).
• Hands-on experience with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, etc.).
• Solid understanding of digital buses (I2C, SPI, UART, RS422, CAN, USB, PCIe, Ethernet etc.).
• Familiarity with board bring-up, test planning, and design verification workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the full electrical design lifecycle for complex spaceflight hardware: Concept of operations, requirements engineering, schematic capture, layout, bring-up, test, and manufacturing handoff.
• Develop robust analog/digital designs for mission-critical systems under environmental and performance constraints.
• Organize collaborative cross disciplinary design reviews sharing feedback and shaping solutions with a team of experienced engineers.
• Provide critical input to schedule planning, hardware requirements, and process improvements.
• Lead board-level bring-up and debugging, integrating firmware/software/FPGA with embedded systems.
• Define test plans and verification strategies that meet flight readiness requirements.
• Play a key role in scaling up our manufacturing facility bringing hardware from prototype to low-volume production.
• Collaborate across teams- mechanical, RF, software, FPGA/SoC, and systems to ensure seamless integration.
• Mentor early-career engineers contributing to internal process improvements and elevating the overall quality of the team.
• Engage with external vendors and CMs, ensuring delivery quality, resolving DFM/DFT issues, and ensuring on-time delivery.

Skills

PCB design

Altium Designer

Hardware debugging

Digital buses

Board bring-up

Documentation

DFM/DFT

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Master’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Power analyzers

ECAD tools

Job description

Capella Space is seeking a Staff Electrical Hardware Design Engineer in Louisville, CO to own the full electrical design lifecycle for complex spaceflight hardware, from concept to flight readiness. You will collaborate across RF, mechanical, software, FPGA/SoC, and operations teams to deliver high-reliability electronics for orbit.

Qualification includes a Bachelor’s and 8+ years of PCB design experience, strong Altium skills, and hands-on lab instrument proficiency.