Electrical Engineer - Avionics

We are looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer to lead the development of high-reliability electronics for our interceptor prototypes and future VLEO satellites. You will own everything from board-level design to power systems, sensor integration, EMI/EMC, and flight hardware integration. Expect to work directly with founders, integrate components, run tests, and ship hardware that flies and intercepts targets.

If you’re excited by high-stakes engineering, rapid prototyping, and pushing physics boundaries, we are going to get along great!

What You’ll Do

• Electrical Design & Prototyping

• 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).

• Sensor and Actuator Solutions

• 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.

• Flight Hardware & Harsh-Environment Design

• Perform thermal, vibration, and shock analysis for >100km altitude environments.

• Support hardware qualification: TVAC, vibe, EMI/EMC, and high-G ground testing.

• Embedded & System Integration

• 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.

• Execution & Ownership

• 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 CITIZENSHIP 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.