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Electrical Engineer - Avionics
Wardstone Space
El Segundo, USA
Full-time
Onsite
USD 100000-160000 yearly
Discovered 1 months ago
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What You’ll Do
- Design, simulate, and develop PCBs for sensing, actuation, power, and avionics.
- Own schematic capture, layout, DFM, component selection, and vendor interaction.
- Develop high-reliability power systems (DC–DC, battery systems, protection circuits, transient management).
- Integrate IR cameras, Radar, IMUs, GNSS, rad-hard components, and electromechanical actuators.
- Develop signal-conditioning circuits, sensor fusion interfaces, and low-latency sensing+actuation to enable the autopilot to control the vehicle.
- Perform thermal, vibration, and shock analysis for >100km altitude environments.
- Support hardware qualification: TVAC, vibe, EMI/EMC, and high-G ground testing.
- Collaborate closely with embedded software engineers on microcontroller architectures, drivers, and electrical-firmware interfaces.
- Bring-up, debug, test, and iterate hardware in the lab using scopes, logic analyzers, DAQs, etc.
- Write requirements, test plans, and documentation.
- Take hardware from concept → prototype → test → flight-ready.
- Rapid debugging and converging on functional+performant solutions.
Required Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Strong experience with PCB design tools (KiCad, Altium, or similar).
- Hands-on prototyping experience: soldering, rework, bring-up, rapid iteration.
- Experience integrating sensors, mixed-signal electronics, or power systems.
- Comfort with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and test equipment.
- Strong fundamentals in circuit analysis, signal integrity, noise, grounding, and EMI/EMC.
- Ability to own hardware end-to-end: design, build, test, debug, iterate.
- US Person or Lawful Permanent Resident status required.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with IR cameras, high-speed digital buses, or RF systems.
- Background in aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, or satellites.
- Knowledge of high-G design, radiation effects, or space-environment electronics.
- Embedded firmware experience (C/C++, STM32/Teensy/PIC/ESP32, RTOS).
- Familiarity with power systems, motor drives, or actuator control.
- Experience with MIL-STD-461, DO-160, or NASA/ESA flight hardware standards.
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