Avionics Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant aerospace electrical engineering experience.
• Experience defining or integrating avionics, command-and-data-handling, electrical power, and harness architectures.
• Experience developing and interpreting electrical schematics, block diagrams, interface-control documents, I/O assignments, connector pinouts, and wiring or harness drawings.
• Experience performing spacecraft electrical analyses, such as power budgets, battery and solar-array sizing, and voltage-drop analysis.
• Experience supporting electrical hardware through requirements, design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery.
• Experience leading technical teams, design reviews, supplier oversight, trade studies, and anomaly investigations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting technical information to multidisciplinary teams, leadership, customers, and suppliers.
• Ability to support occasional travel and off-shift testing and support when required.

Nice To Haves

• At least 7 years of spacecraft or high-reliability aerospace electrical systems experience, including at least 3 years of direct spacecraft avionics, electrical power, and/or wiring experience.
• Demonstrated technical ownership of a spacecraft avionics or APW subsystem through design, integration, environmental testing, and delivery.
• Experience with redundant and fault-tolerant avionics architectures, command and telemetry interfaces, time synchronization, and hardware-to-flight-software interfaces.
• Knowledge of grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, fault protection, EMC/EMI, workmanship, and verification principles and standards.
• Experience with spacecraft data buses and electrical interfaces such as SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, RS-422/485, or comparable protocols.
• Knowledge of radiation effects and radiation-tolerant avionics design considerations.
• Experience with spacecraft EMI/EMC design, analysis, troubleshooting, and testing.
• Experience with electrical simulation, analysis, ECAD, or harness-design tools.
• Experience with lithium-ion batteries, solar arrays, spacecraft power electronics, or high-energy electrical systems.
• Experience performing component derating, power quality, and worst-case circuit analyses.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a system-level understanding of spacecraft bus APW architectures, interfaces, operating modes, and mission constraints.
• Define and manage spacecraft avionics architectures, including flight computers, command and data handling, data-acquisition hardware, data buses, time synchronization, and command, telemetry, analog, discrete, and digital interfaces.
• Define spacecraft electrical power architectures, including generation, energy storage, regulation, distribution, switching, grounding, redundancy, load shedding, and fault protection.
• Perform trade studies and electrical analyses, including power budgets, mission load profiles, solar-array and battery sizing, component derating, voltage drop, power quality, inrush current, and worst-case circuit analyses.
• Develop and maintain functional block diagrams, electrical schematics, interface-control documents, I/O and power-switching assignments, connector pinouts, and cable and harness designs.
• Define grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, cable separation, wire sizing, connector selection, and harness-routing requirements.
• Coordinate APW requirements and interfaces with systems engineering, flight software, GNC, communications, payload, thermal, mechanical, propulsion, and other spacecraft disciplines.
• Develop and manage APW requirements, technical baselines, verification plans, and fault-detection, isolation, and recovery approaches throughout the program lifecycle.
• Work with Moog Supply Chain and electrical hardware suppliers to support procurement and provide technical oversight.
• Prepare and present technical content for trade studies, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, customer presentations, and proposals.
• Develop and support electrical ground support equipment (EGSE), integration plans, test procedures, and verification documentation in coordination with other disciplines.
• Support manufacturing, integration, functional and environmental testing, EMC/EMI testing, troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and APW subsystem delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while supporting program cost, schedule, risk, and proposal activities.

Benefits

• Compensation package and bonus opportunities.
• Matching 401(k).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan at select locations.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Flexible paid time off and holidays.
• Parental leave program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Employee Assistance Plan and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Tuition assistance.
• Mentorship, coaching, leadership development, and personal growth programs.
• Employee Resource Groups.