Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Summary

Role: Sr. Electrical Engineer

Employment Type: Full Time

About the Role: Lead the architecture, design, and development of electronic systems for spacecraft and payload applications. Design and realise board-level hardware combining analog, digital, and power electronics for mission-critical space systems. Own the complete hardware lifecycle including requirements capture, trade studies, schematic design, component selection, PCB implementation, bring-up, validation, and release. Design flight PCBs for subsystems including electrical power systems, digital avionics, sensor and interface electronics, and payload support electronics.

Responsibilities

Power, Analog and Digital Engineering

• Design and analyse power electronic circuits including DC-DC converters, power distribution, protection, load switching, battery-related circuits, and power conditioning stages.
• Develop analog circuits such as signal conditioning, sensing, measurement, monitoring, filtering, reference generation, and control loops.
• Design and validate digital electronics involving processors, FPGAs, memory, level translation, clocks, reset architecture, housekeeping, and interface circuitry.
• Perform engineering analysis for power integrity, signal integrity, timing, grounding, noise coupling, thermal performance, and EMI/EMC behavior.
• Work with interfaces and protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, /LVDS, SpaceWire, Ethernet, and other subsystem communication links.

Component Engineering and Reliability

• Perform component selection, derating analysis, worst-case analysis, tolerance analysis, and FMECA/FMEA for flight electronics.
• Drive design decisions with consideration for high reliability, fault tolerance, fail-safe operation, manufacturability, testability, and environmental robustness.
• Support part evaluation and trade studies for space-grade, rad-tolerant, and COTS components depending on mission needs.
• Review and define requirements for ESD protection, latch-up resilience, grounding strategy, isolation, and EMI/EMC performance.

PCB Realization and Hardware Bring-Up

• Work closely with PCB layout engineers to ensure robust implementation of mixed-signal layout practices, including partitioning, return current control, noise isolation, grounding, placement, and routing strategy.
• Review PCB layouts for power stages, sensitive analog circuits, high-speed digital interfaces, and flight-critical nets.
• Lead board bring-up, debugging, root-cause analysis, and design iteration using lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, current probes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and thermal tools.
• Debug issues related to startup behavior, instability, interface errors, noise coupling, margins, and intermittent failures.

Testing, Integration and Documentation

• Develop test plans, test procedures, validation matrices, and operating procedures for board-level, subsystem-level, and integrated spacecraft electronics.
• Support hardware integration and verification across all program phases including development, cleanroom integration, qualification, launch preparation, and post-launch operational support.
• Generate and maintain documentation including requirements, interface control documents, design descriptions, analysis reports, test documentation, and manufacturing support packages.
• Work with software and systems teams to define hardware-software interfaces and support system-level validation.

Technical Leadership

Provide technical guidance during design reviews, failure analysis, and subsystem trade studies.

• Mentor junior engineers in good design practices for mixed-signal, power, and high-reliability electronics.
• Help strengthen internal standards, design methodologies, review checklists, and hardware development practices within the team.

Preferred Skills

• Strong fundamentals in analog electronics, digital electronics, and power electronics.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity, timing, grounding, EMI/EMC, power integrity, and thermal design.
• Familiarity with communication and interface standards such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, /LVDS, SpaceWire, or Ethernet.
• Experience with battery electronics, solar power interfaces, converter design, telemetry/housekeeping electronics, or payload support hardware.
• Familiarity with FPGAs, RTL concepts, clock/reset design, and digital system integration is a plus.
• Experience with high-reliability, aerospace, automotive, defense, or industrial electronics is preferred.
• Knowledge of ESD control and board-level protection design.
• Strong documentation, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

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