Electrical Hardware Engineer

Electrical Hardware Engineer

Santa Clara, California

(Onsite)

My client builds and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems supporting space-based turnkey missions for several business applications, including earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, risk reduction opportunities, in addition to various science and exploration applications.

Position Summary:

In this role you will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining avionics hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Perform component selection, design analysis, schematic capture, circuit board design, prototyping, board bring up, debugging, circuit validation, and design documentation for electrical designs.
• Analyze and troubleshoot electronic assemblies, define new processes, design circuits/fixtures/tools, and identify opportunities for improvement in both products and processes.
• Support or act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.
• Support build and process improvement through troubleshooting build problems and work to simplify and streamline recurring work to enable higher reliability of the avionics hardware.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 4+ years of experience with Electrical Hardware design, analysis, and/or unit level testing.
• Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.
• Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with Altium or similar software.
• Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.
• Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.
• Experience with wire harness design and build, including associated sub-components.

Salary:

• $120,000 - $150,000