Senior Electrical Engineer, Lifecycle (Prism)

Northwood Space • Los Angeles, CA

2d • $122,000 - $225,000

About The Position

As a Senior Lifecycle Electrical Engineer, you will operate and improve Northwood’s ground segment network. You will own the designs of 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 covers electronics systems in Prism systems from cradle to grave, including observing performance and degradation, driving root-cause investigations and corrective actions, and delivering design improvements from schematic capture through layout, manufacture, and deployment. You will provide design and analysis inputs for reliable design, test, and qualification campaigns, test prototypes in the lab and field, and work with production teams to create products that are testable, manufacturable, and suitable for in-house integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 4–7+ 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, debug, 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 drive reliable design, test, and qualification campaigns.
• Drive design improvements to modules, from design to schematic capture to layout, manufacture, and deployment.
• Test prototypes and assess performance in the lab and in the field.
• Work with production teams to make testable and manufacturable products that can be integrated in-house.

What This Job Offers

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