Lead Electrical Engineer Verified today
Albedo is building Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) infrastructure and satellite buses below 300 km. We are looking for a technical lead for power and analog electrical engineering on our avionics and spacecraft-power programs.
You will own electrical architecture across programs: EPS, bus regulation, battery management, isolated supplies, analog signal chains, and board- and box-level electrical design. You set EE technical direction alongside engineering management and drive the next generation of our electronics capability. You lead through architecture, design review, and mentoring, with day-to-day design work delegated to other engineers. You stay hands-on as time allows, taking hard and high-stakes design work yourself.
Required Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience
- BSEE (MSEE preferred)
- Extensive end-to-end hardware-design experience: multiple designs taken from concept through production
- Deep power and analog expertise: DC/DC (buck / boost / flyback), battery management, bus regulation, isolated supplies, analog signal-chain and mixed-signal design; first-principles thermal, transient, and efficiency analysis
- High-voltage DC power design, including isolation, protection, and creepage/clearance discipline
- Solid grasp of digital architecture to partner on electrical interfaces and mixed-signal boundaries to FPGA / avionics and flight software
- Hands-on schematic capture and PCB layout on complex multi-layer designs, plus working command of signal integrity and power integrity (controlled impedance, return paths, stackup, decoupling), and judgment to review others' designs
- EMI/EMC understanding: design for electromagnetic compatibility, grounding, shielding, filtering, and control of conducted/radiated emissions
- Strong lab and hands-on skills: power measurement, standard bench instruments, board bring-up and debug
- Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring other engineers
- Enforce EE design-review discipline: hold designs to standard and gate reviews before release
- Working understanding of space environment and radiation effects on ICs (TID and single-event effects / SEE: SEU / SEL / SET) and how that drives part selection, derating, and design margin
- Experience flying COTS parts in space: using commercial parts in radiation environment safely (rad-tolerance by design, upscreening / lot testing, architecture-level mitigation)
- Space / avionics rigor: parts derating and stress analysis, reliability, design margin for flight electronics
- Cross-functional collaboration with FPGA / avionics, flight software, mechanical / thermal, and systems teams
- Support proposals when needed: EE/power architecture concepts, power budgets, compliance-matrix input, BOM/cost for new-business responses
- Push-the-envelope mindset: always looking for new, cheaper, faster, more-reliable ways to build capability at lower cost
Nice to Have
- Motor-control power stages (brushless-motor drive electronics)
- Altium experience
- MSEE
- Python for test automation and analysis tooling
- Automated parts-stress / derating tooling
- Experience using AI tools in daily engineering work: LLM assistants for design, review, analysis, and documentation
Location and Compensation
On-site in Broomfield, CO. Salary range: $190,000 - $220,000 per year.
Benefits
- Employee friendly equity compensation
- 4% direct matching 401k
- Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage, 75% dependent coverage
- Parental leave and childcare coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
- 12 company holidays
- $100 monthly wellness benefit
- Relocation package if not based in Denver
All persons hired must be a U.S. Person as defined under 22 CFR 120.62 and verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States.