Avionics Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• At least 5 years of direct experience designing electronics hardware—including schematic capture, PCB layout, board bring-up, and environmental qualification—for aerospace, automotive, or other high-reliability industries.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to complex electronics systems from design through production or deployment.
• Advanced PCB design expertise, including knowledge of high-speed signal integrity, power and grounding, and electromagnetic compatibility.
• Experience taking complex PCB designs through fabrication and assembly.
• Expertise with Altium and/or KiCad EDA suites.
• Strong hands-on laboratory experience with electronic test equipment, including oscilloscopes, function generators, benchtop digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Experience programming in Python, MATLAB, or another scripting or data-analysis language.
• Demonstrated experience implementing hardware layers for multiple onboard and over-harness communication protocols, such as SPI, RS-422, and 1000BASE-T.
• Experience designing analog and digital filters and mixed-signal circuits.
• Power electronics design experience, including load switches and switch-mode DC:DC converters.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person, as defined in the posting, to access export-controlled items.

Nice To Haves

• Industry-leading electronic circuit design and analysis skills.
• Strong general knowledge of physics, mathematics, and chemistry fundamentals relevant to designing electronics for unique environments.
• Understanding of aerospace sensor and actuator technologies, including RTDs, pressure transducers, brushless motors, solenoid valves, thermocouples, stepper motors, and rotary or linear encoders.

Responsibilities

• Design PCB-level electronics through all lifecycle stages, including schematic capture, layout, design validation, fabrication and assembly, and manufacturing test.
• Support avionics architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and roadmap direction.
• Serve as an avionics subject matter expert for satellite, reentry vehicle, and payload hardware, supporting the GNC, pharmaceutical, mission operations, and integration teams.
• Collaborate with flight software, thermal, GNC, and structures teams to assess vehicle-wide impacts of design decisions.
• Own product acceptance and qualification testing for space environments, including thermal, vibration, shock, TVAC, and EMI testing, with support from the Avionics Test team.
• Provide direction on system-level integration test plans to verify hardware performance at the vehicle level.
• Perform root cause analysis on test failures and implement holistic strategies to mitigate flight risks.
• Mentor junior engineers on projects, challenges, and design methodologies.

Benefits

• Eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.