Electrical Engineer, Lifecycle (Prism)

Northwood Space • Los Angeles, CA

2d • $100,000 - $130,000

About The Position

As a Lifecycle Electrical Engineer, you will operate and improve Northwood’s Prism ground segment network. You will own designs for deployed modules and circuitry spanning RF, power, and high-speed digital electronics; investigate fielded systems; and develop component and subsystem updates to deployed designs. The role involves design, analysis, testing, manufacturing collaboration, and deployment of reliable electronic systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 2–4+ years of professional experience in electrical design.
• Experience with end-to-end board design, from architecture and component selection through schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, debugging, and production.
• Hands-on experience debugging complex hardware systems using advanced lab instrumentation and driving root-cause analysis across board and system levels.

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving root-cause and corrective-action campaigns using thorough, systemic processes such as fishbone analysis and 5 Whys.
• Hands-on project team experience, such as Formula SAE, rocketry, or CubeSat.
• Deep understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC mitigation, PCB stack-up definition, and high-performance board layout practices.
• RF design or test experience with LNAs, power amplifiers, filters, or up/down converters, including gain, noise figure, compression, and spurious performance.
• High-speed digital design experience with FPGAs, SerDes, data converters, or 10/100G Ethernet, including signal and power integrity analysis.
• Power electronics design experience, such as DC-DC converters, sequencing, and protection circuits.
• Experience troubleshooting conducted or radiated EMI/EMC.
• Experience with mixed-signal electronics design and complex multilayer PCBs, including stack-up definition and material selection.

Responsibilities

• Own electronics systems deployed in Prism systems from cradle to grave, spanning RF, power, and high-speed digital electronics.
• Observe performance and degradation of electronics deployed on Prism systems.
• Drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions on in-factory and deployed ground stations.
• Provide design and analysis inputs to support reliable design, test, and qualification campaigns.
• Drive design improvements to modules through design, schematic capture, layout, manufacture, and deployment.
• Test prototypes and assess performance in the lab and in the field.
• Work with production teams to develop testable and manufacturable products for in-house integration.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level