Spacecraft Electronics Engineer Verified today
About the role
As a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer, you will design and integrate custom components for our next-generation satellite platform. This includes PCBA design, component selection and evaluation, custom sensors, radios, power systems, design verification, and board bring-up. You will work with third-party fabricators and assemblers, interface with software and mechanical teams, and participate in guiding design across all development stages from proof of concept to new product introduction.
What you'll do
- Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design
- Component selection and circuit-level design and simulation
- Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer
- Power supply and power monitoring circuit design
- Design verification through circuit simulations, including worst-case analysis
- Signal and power integrity simulation and analysis
- Peer review of schematics and layouts
- Board bring-up, validation and debugging
- Assist with validation and qualification testing of new and existing systems
Key skills
- Electronics theory, component knowledge and analogue and digital circuitry expertise
- Board design with schematic capture and PCB layout using enterprise software (Altium preferred), with focus on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Experience with FPGA designs (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar) for high-speed and high data-rate digital signal processing
- Knowledge of high-speed digital layout design practices (matched impedance, stack up, manufacturing restrictions) and SI tools
- Experience with digital communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet)
- Experience with rigid, flex and rigid-flex PCB design
- Strong debugging and fault identification experience
- Lab equipment experience including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, VNAs
Preferred skills
- Design for IPC-6012DS Class 3A or ECSS-Q-ST-70-12C/60C compliance
- High power electronic design and thermal management
- SI tools experience such as Hyperlynx
- Environmental and component reliability requirements for space applications
- FPGA programming (Verilog, VHDL)
- Embedded and DSP programming (C/C++, microcontrollers, DSP)
- EMI/EMC design experience with shields and enclosures
- RF electronics design experience
Employment details
This is a full-time position requiring on-site presence at our office in Munich.
Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. Spire will arrange the necessary licenses if needed.