Job Details

Our exciting Space client in Orange County is looking for an Electrical Engineer to have ownership over the design and testing of hardware designs for spacecraft bus and/or payload development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop high reliability electrical systems and PCBs for satellite devices.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test.
• Perform PCB troubleshooting and root cause analysis down to component level.
• Define and lead satellite harness definition and fabrication processes.
• Prepare fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, BOMs, and general documentation required for design transfer to fabrication and assembly.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required.
• Ideally 2 – 4+ years of hardware development experience in PCB board design and layout and electronic system prototyping and validation.
• Advanced proficiency with design tools for schematic capture (Altium preferred).
• Comfortable working in the lab with oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and logic analyzers.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper.
• Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources.
• Experience with developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware.
• Experience with circuit simulation tools such as LTSpice.
• Soldering skills on surface mount and thru-hole components.
• Experience with switching power supply design.
• Experience with requirements management.
• Experience with system verification and validation.
• Embedded systems and microcontroller implementation and programming.
• Experience with high performance digital processors, FPGAs, memory chips, or network switches.

If you are interested, then please apply today!

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering, Design, and Production

Industries

Defense and Space Manufacturing, Space Research and Technology, and Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing