Board Design Engineer

Array Labs • Palo Alto, CA

12d

About The Position

At Array Labs, we are building the world’s most advanced radar imaging satellites to produce an accurate, continuously updated 3D map of the Earth — providing governments and commercial organizations with critical insights into the physical world. We design and build our entire radar system in-house, from antenna panels and RF front-ends to digital electronics, calibration systems, and data processing. This gives us direct control over the electrical, thermal, and mechanical constraints that determine radar performance and system reliability. As a Board Design Engineer, you will design, lay out, and validate the printed circuit assemblies that power Array’s radar payloads and on-orbit processing systems. Your work will span high-density digital and mixed-signal designs, power regulation modules, RF-interfaces, and compute hardware operating under the constraints of small satellite platforms. You will take boards from schematic through layout, manufacturing, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, digital, mechanical, and systems engineers. The boards you develop will directly influence Array’s signal integrity, processing throughput, thermal behavior, and overall radar system capability. As part of our quickly growing engineering team, you will play a critical role in building the world’s most advanced radar satellite constellation—one that will significantly improve humanity’s ability to rapidly and comprehensively understand our changing planet.

Requirements

• Experience in board design and layout
• Experience in electronics manufacture, bring-up, and test
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner
• High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor in electrical engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of electrical engineering work experience with full-life cycle development (concept to production) of consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics
• Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, PCB fabrication, floorplanning, component selection, placement and routing, simulation and measurement
• Hands-on experience laying out high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches)
• Expertise in signal and power integrity simulation and measurement
• Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced electronic platforms, from architecture to manufacturing
• Work closely with software, firmware, RF, antenna, digital, and mechanical design engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art spacecraft electronics
• Create requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, design complex electronic assemblies and manage manufacturing
• Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, manufacturing, and test campaigns.
• Rapidly iterate on and improve electronic designs based on laboratory, environmental and on-orbit testing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees