Electrical Hardware Engineer- Avionics Verified today
About the Role
You will be responsible for design, manufacturing, and testing of electrical hardware and avionics components across all product lines. After component delivery, you will generate documentation to support software development, environmental testing, and vehicle assembly and integration.
Responsibilities
- Design PCBs for spacecraft primary and secondary avionics systems
- Perform trade studies on electronic components and select options for engineering and flight units
- Develop test procedures for component, board-level and system-level integrated testing
- Test fabricated PCBs and integrated avionics systems
- Participate in environmental tests of engineering design units
- Participate in qualification tests of flight design units
- Program embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, or graphic processors
- Execute full systems engineering development cycle and report to the Avionics Lead
- Support hardware-in-the-loop testing with engineering and flight systems
- Write and present technical reports
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 2+ years of experience in electronics hardware development
- Schematic and board design proficiency using Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, or similar
- Experience using standard electrical lab equipment (power supply, electronic load, multimeter, oscilloscope) to execute test procedures for assembled PCBs or integrated systems
- Rapid prototype development skills
- Strong debugging skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience designing electronic hardware including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, filtering, data acquisition, and command and data handling (C&DH)
- Experience writing test plans and procedures for PCBA and integrated system bring up, design verification, qualification, and acceptance testing
- Experience developing test scripts in Python to automate PCBA and integrated system test procedure execution
- Experience performing trade studies for electrical and avionics system architectures, components, and individual parts
- Experience with PCBA inspection and rework to IPC-A-610 Class 3 requirements
- Systems engineering experience for controlling requirements, risks, and integration flow
- Capable of programming embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, or graphic processors
- Familiarity with NASA-STD 4001 and NASA-STD 4003 or similar
- Experience with digital, analog, and signal conditioning circuit design
- Experience testing to MIL-STD-461 or similar