Principal Electrical Engineer Verified today
The Role
The Principal Electrical Engineer leads the design and development of high reliability hardware and electrical systems for space flight and similar missions. This position is 100% onsite in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
What You'll Do
- Lead subsystem architecture and interface development for new and existing satellite systems
- Lead IRAD/CRAD project design, development, testing, and transition to manufacturing
- Generate requirements, specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), analyses, and test plans
- Develop and maintain system power budgets and electrical system validation and verification plans
- Develop test plans for electrical components, assemblies, and subsystems
- Support integration, testing, and operational readiness of spacecraft and payloads
- Coordinate engineering design packages with systems engineers, mechanical engineers, manufacturing, quality, and program management
- Oversee spacecraft testing and review test results
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to continual process improvement
- Generate and maintain engineering and manufacturing documentation including drawings and bills of materials
- Document design, analysis, and test results in technical reports and presentations
- Adhere to Quality Management Systems standards and procedures
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (or another relevant field) with 12+ years of experience. Experience in lieu of education may be considered
- Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring within engineering teams
- High level of proficiency with Printed Circuit Board design including schematic capture, layout, test, and manufacturing
- High level of proficiency with Altium (or similar) for schematic and PCB design
- High level of proficiency with power electronics design and high speed digital electronics design
- Basic level of proficiency with RF circuit design
- High level of proficiency with AutoCAD Electrical (or similar) for schematic and layout design
- Solid understanding of requirements definition, decomposition, and flow-down; architectural trade studies; architectural and interface definition; hardware specifications; interface control; analyses; and verification
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 including Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams
Desired Experience
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (or another relevant field)
- Six years experience in satellite or spacecraft systems design including electrical power systems (EPS)
- Experience with integration of common spacecraft subsystems: power systems (Solar Arrays, Batteries), avionics assemblies, harnessing, ADCS elements, and electro-mechanical subsystems
- Knowledge of satellite/spacecraft system reliability, contamination control, EMI, space environments (radiation, surface charging, corrosion), and human factors
- Experience developing system and subsystem level acceptance plans and qualification testing of space flight hardware
- High quality written and oral presentation skills
Work Schedule and Travel
Day shift, generally 7:00am to 4:00pm or 8:00am to 5:00pm. Some overtime may be expected. Ability to travel less than 10%.
Physical Requirements
- Sedentary work, occasionally exerting up to 10 pounds of force to carry, lift, push, pull, or otherwise move objects
- Daily use of laptop, computer monitor, keyboard, and mouse, sometimes utilizing a headset with microphone and speakers
Total Rewards
- Competitive salary
- Best-in-class benefit program with generous employer paid portion
- 401(k) matching on Day ONE
- Paid time off including vacation, sick time and 11 holidays
- Educational assistance and professional training opportunities
- Employee referral bonus program
- Jeans every day
- Regular onsite food trucks
- Adjustable stand-up desks
- Company golf outings and other social events
Eligibility Requirements
- All candidates selected will be subject to background investigation and drug screen
- To conform to U.S. Government International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State