Spacecraft Electrical Engineer
Turion Space
Other Engineering
Irvine, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
As an Electrical Engineer you will have ownership over design and testing of hardware designs for spacecraft bus and/or payload development. You will be expected to work within a cross-disciplinary team supporting the development of electrical systems for use in satellites. You must be willing to learn and adapt to working outside of your comfort zone.
- Department
- Payload R&D
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Irvine, California
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $100,000 - $140,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Jackson Parker
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop high reliability electrical systems and PCBs for satellite devices.
- Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test.
- Perform PCB troubleshooting and root cause analysis down to component level.
- Be responsible for entire satellite electrical system.
- Define and lead satellite harness definition and fabrication processes.
- Prepare fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, BOMs, and general documentation required for design transfer to fabrication and assembly.
- Maintain and update requirements and design documentation throughout the entire system life cycle
- Maintain effective communication with all the functional groups to ensure project success (such as mechanical, manufacturing, software, test, and supply chain)
- Support on-orbit operations as electrical systems subject matter expert
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required
- 2-4 years of hardware development experience in PCB board design and layout and electronic system prototyping and validation
- Advanced proficiency with design tools for schematic capture (Altium preferred)
- Comfortable working in the lab with oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and logic analyzers
- Demonstrates strong technical ability and creativity at a fundamental level
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Must be able to obtain a Secret and/or a TS/SCI clearance.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Passion for space and curiosity for electronics in high-reliability applications
- Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper
- Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources
- Experience with developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware
- Experience with circuit simulation tools such as LTSpice
- Soldering skills on surface mount and thru-hole components
- Experience with switching power supply design.
- Experience with requirements management
- Experience with system verification and validation
- Embedded systems and microcontroller implementation and programming
- Understanding of analog high speed and differential signal routing
- Experience with high performance digital processors, FPGAs, memory chips, or network switches
- Experience with circuit board design-for-manufacturability, productization of electronics
ITAR Requirements:
- This position may include access to technology and/or software source code that is subject to U.S. export controls. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement Plans: Access to a 401(k) plan.
- Paid Time Off: Generous vacation days, personal days, and holidays to ensure you have time to recharge.
- Professional Development: Opportunities for ongoing training, workshops, and courses to advance your skills and career growth.
- Team Building Activities: Regular social events, team outings, and company-sponsored activities to foster a positive work environment.
- Diverse and Inclusive Culture: A commitment to diversity and inclusion, with initiatives to support a welcoming and equitable work environment.
Turion Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Turion Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. Applicants wishing to view a copy of Turion’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department.
About Turion Space
Turion Space was founded with the vision of propelling humanity toward an interplanetary future. To realize this vision, we are developing cutting-edge spacecraft focused on space transport, orbital debris removal, and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) to ensure ongoing value creation. Our mission centers on advancing spacecraft for low-earth orbit (LEO) and enhancing SDA, which are essential for both current space operations and future interplanetary exploration. By prioritizing high delta-V per dollar, we aim to maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness in space transportation. We successfully launched our DROID.001 satellite in June 2023, with DROID.002 and DROID.003 scheduled for 2025.
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