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Electrical Engineer
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 10525
Pay Rate: $80.00 p/hr - $100.00 p/hr
Job Description
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Engineering: Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace
- 8 years Space/Satellite avionics is a must (concept through verification)
- Altium, eCAD, Nice to have mCAD : Experience designing boards from scratch or updating heritage designs
- Familiarity with FPGA hardware implementation for flight applications
- Communication standards, such as RS-422/485, MIL-STD-1553, SpaceWire/Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C
- Hands-on hardware development:
Electrical circuit design (analog and digital) - Electrical schematics and PCB layout
- Component selection (including for harsh environments)
- Testing, troubleshooting, and resolving failure modes
- Understanding of unit, subsystem, and system-level performance
- Spaceflight experience or demonstrable knowledge of:
- Space environments (LEO, MEO, GEO)
- Semiconductor and space physics
- COTS component qualification
- Triple-E part selection
- Full design ownership: Must be able to walk through the full board-level design process from concept to build.
- Experience with contract manufacturers: e.g., Naprotech, Sanmina
- Familiarity with FPGA hardware implementation for flight applications
Responsibilities:
- Owner from concept to verification, production and operation of avionics hardware for space applications.
- Provide technical leadership and provide guidance to other engineers to complete the overall design of the avionics boxes
- Develop electrical schematics, PCB board layouts, specifications
- Execute test activities in the laboratory
- Provide technical leadership and provide guidance to other engineers to complete the overall design of the avionics boxes
- Work with hardware in the laboratory to verify it is configured and communicates properly with other avionics
- Troubleshoot problems on the real spacecraft
- Collaborate closely with electrical, mechanical, test and system engineers