Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer

Impulse Space•Redondo Beach, CA

6d•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
5+ years of experience in electronic component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
5+ years of experience in mixed-signal and analog circuit design including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, opamps, filtering, signal integrity, etc.
3+ years of hands-on experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level
Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
2+ years of experience with Altium Designer
5+ years of demonstrated experience doing new development work for any of the following: power converters, load switches, engine controllers, processors, or any other specialized area relevant to spacecraft or rockets
Experience in a startup or agile development environment

Responsibilities

Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital or control electronics
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
Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams