Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

Overview

In this role, you will design and integrate spacecraft electronics for a next-generation satellite platform, from PCBAs to power, sensors, radios, and interfaces. You will collaborate with software and mechanical teams to guide concepts through to production, perform design verification, and support board bring-up and qualification. You’ll work on high-speed digital and RF-rich systems, using simulations and SI/PI analysis to ensure reliability in space environments. This is a hands-on, cross-functional position focused on delivering robust, manufacturable electronics for a global satellite constellation.

Pay / Benefits

• Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
• Launch Attendance
• Generous Time Off Policy
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Responsibilities

• Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design
• Component selection and circuit design with simulations as needed
• Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer
• Power supply and power monitoring circuit design
• Design verification through circuit simulations and worst-case analysis
• Signal and power integrity analysis
• Peer review of schematics and layouts
• Board bring-up, validation and debugging
• Assisting validation and qualification for testing systems

Key requirements

• Electronics theory with analogue and digital expertise
• PCB design and schematic capture, Altium preferred, with DFM focus
• Experience with FPGA-based designs for high-speed DSP
• Strong high-speed digital layout practices and SI tools
• Experience with multiple digital interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet)
• Rigid, Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB design
• Strong debugging and fault identification skills
• Lab equipment proficiency (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, VNAs)

• Altium Designer
• FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC)
• High-speed digital design
• SI/PI tools
• I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet
• Rigid-Flex PCB design

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