Lead Electrical Engineer

Albedo•Broomfield, CO

6d•$190,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

Albedo is hiring a hands-on individual contributor to own the architecture and end-to-end design of precision mechanisms electronics, including motor-drive and motor-control power stages, power conversion and distribution, and analog sensing. The engineer will personally take designs from architecture through schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, and qualification. They will partner with the digital team on FPGA- and microcontroller-based control electronics and define the electrical interface. The role also serves as the company’s power and analog design expert across spacecraft programs. The engineer will uphold rigorous design reviews and work closely with digital, flight software, mechanical, thermal, and systems engineers to develop capable, cost-effective, fast, and reliable solutions. The position is based in person at Albedo’s Broomfield, Colorado headquarters.

Requirements

10 or more years of electrical engineering experience.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required.
Multiple designs personally taken from concept through production.
Experience with brushless motor drives, inverter and gate-drive power stages, current sensing, and analog front ends for motor position and speed sensors.
Expertise in DC/DC converters (buck, boost, and flyback), bus regulation, isolated supplies, battery management, and high-voltage DC protection and isolation.
Ability to perform first-principles thermal, transient, and efficiency analysis.
Expertise in precision analog signal chains, sensor interfaces, and data conversion, including defining electrical interfaces to digital control electronics owned by another team.
Hands-on schematic capture and PCB layout for complex multilayer boards.
Working knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI/EMC design, including grounding, shielding, and filtering.
Strong laboratory skills, including board bring-up, debugging, power measurement, and motor-drive testing with standard bench instruments.
Knowledge of space environments, including total ionizing dose (TID), single-event effects, parts derating, stress analysis, and safe use of COTS components.
Must meet the stated U.S. employment eligibility and U.S.-Person requirements.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and end-to-end design of precision mechanisms electronics, including motor drives, motor-control power stages, power conversion and distribution, and analog sensing.
Design electronics from architecture through schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, and qualification.
Partner with the digital team on FPGA and microcontroller control electronics and define the electrical interface.
Serve as the power and analog design expert across spacecraft programs.
Conduct board bring-up, debugging, power measurement, and motor-drive testing.
Apply space-environment knowledge to parts selection, derating, stress analysis, and decisions about COTS versus radiation-hardened components.
Hold designs to a rigorous review standard and collaborate with digital, flight software, mechanical, thermal, and systems engineers to improve cost, speed, and reliability.