Navigation Sensor Hardware Lead Verified today
About this role
You will lead navigation sensor hardware, electrical, and system design across all flight regimes for current and future spaceflight systems. This position requires your commitment to safe, low-cost, and reliable spaceflight and will directly shape the future of space exploration.
What you will do
- Serve as technical lead in the development of hardware and software for an in-house navigation sensor serving mission-critical applications
- Evaluate accelerometer, gyroscope, and IMU products and coordinate with vendors
- Support development of high-end accelerometer and/or gyroscope sensors
- Characterize and mitigate IMU errors including test setup, test procedures, analysis methods, and calibration techniques
- Lead process iteration for cost-effective, high-yield, high-rate IMU manufacturing, including calibration and acceptance test procedures
- Drive regulatory and certification activities and electrical/mechanical failure analysis
- Lead acceptance and qualification testing for space-worthy sensors (thermal cycle, TVAC, vibration, shock, EMI, radiation), including test execution, data collection and analysis
What we need
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
- 8 or more years of related experience with navigation sensor and/or avionics assembly design
- Understanding of IMU error sources, sensitivities and mitigation techniques
- Understanding of design for manufacturing principles
- Experience with mechanical and electrical integration of accelerometer and gyroscope sensors into navigation-grade IMU triad
- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced new product development environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired experience
- MS in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
- Strong familiarity with hardware testing and the ability to operate test equipment such as vector network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, oscilloscope, power meters, and thermal chamber
Compensation and benefits
Base pay range for WA applicants: $156,802.00 to $219,522.45. Other site ranges may differ.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with company match up to 5%, education support program, stock options for regular employees (20+ hours/week), and up to four weeks paid time off plus up to 14 company-paid holidays per year.