At AstroForge, our mission is to expand humanity’s capabilities to utilize the untapped resources in space. As an Electrical Hardware Development Engineer, you will collaborate across engineering disciplines to create electrical hardware solutions from design to production in support of creating the first successful asteroid mining vehicle. The ideal candidate excels at working in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Electrical architecture and design, product requirements, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, and documentation
• Flight production, development prototyping, vendor selection, and manufacturing
• Circuit and full product bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and confidence, acceptance and qualification testing
• Delivering flight and engineering hardware on time and active project management through schedule maintenance and status reports
• Integration, full vehicle integrated testing, on-orbit operations support, and data review
• Multidisciplinary coordination with software, firmware, mechanical, PCB layout, environments, integration, harnessing, test, manufacturing, and production teams to deliver fully functional product
• System engineering efforts to ensure design meets all intents and does not adversely impact other groups or designs
• Drive improvements in reliability and capabilities while minimizing cost and schedule

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or physics *
• 2+ years of professional experience designing and delivering electrical hardware *

* If you feel you can be successful at this position but don’t meet the minimum qualifications, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience designing electrical hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products, not small incremental updates to legacy hardware
• Strong grasp of designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
• Experience with hands on testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics
• Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++, Rust, Golang)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
• Ability to work in an autonomously driven and demanding startup atmosphere
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours, day or night shift, and weekend work may be required to support critical project and mission milestones