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Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer

Impulse Space
1 day ago
Full-time
On-site
Redondo Beach, California, United States
$140,000 - $180,000 USD yearly
As a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer, you will design and test custom circuit boards and other avionics devices that enable our space vehicles to meet mission requirements. You will work directly with software engineers, propulsion engineers, GNC engineers, and others.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of spacecraft electronics development, from designing new circuit boards to testing, debugging and integrating them onto space vehicles.

Responsibilities


  • Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital or control electronics
  • Contribute to new spacecraft avionics architecture trade
  • Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems
  • Act as the Responsible Engineering authority for your hardware, owning your design from board bring-up and debugging in the lab through qualification and flight operations
  • Define hardware interfaces and verify requirements
  • Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
  • Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams

Minimum Qualifications


  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years professional experience designing digital electronics for rockets, spacecraft, or other vehicles
  • Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
  • Knowledge of digital circuit design concepts including signal integrity, timing, etc.
  • Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
  • Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
  • Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Preferred Skills and Experience


  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 2+ years of experience with Altium Designer
  • 2+ years of experience doing new development work for any of the following: processors, FPGAs, DSPs, cameras, ethernet switches, or any other specialized area relevant to spacecraft or rockets
  • 2+ years of experience designing high speed digital interfaces such as DDR4/5, PCIe, RGMII/SGMII, Ethernet
  • Experience in a startup or agile development environment


Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.