Recent Graduate - Electrical Engineer Verified today

What You'll Do

• Contribute directly to the design, analysis, development, integration, test, and operation of spacecraft electrical and avionics systems, including power, embedded electronics, sensors, interfaces, and flight hardware.
• Own well-scoped electrical engineering problems from requirements and concept development through schematic design, component selection, analysis, PCB or harness interface definition, integration, test, documentation, and closure with support from senior engineers.
• Work hands-on with schematics, boards, flight hardware, sensors, harnesses, bench equipment, oscilloscopes, power supplies, logic analyzers, simulation tools, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
• Participate in design reviews, board bring-up, hardware builds, integration activities, test campaigns, anomaly investigations, and mission-readiness activities; communicate electrical performance, risks, assumptions, and decisions clearly.
• Collaborate across mechanical, GNC, propulsion, software, systems, manufacturing, and mission operations to understand electrical interfaces and system-level impacts on spacecraft performance.
• Build engineering judgment by comparing circuit calculations, simulations, power budgets, signal expectations, and interface assumptions against bench, integration, and hardware data, identifying discrepancies, and iterating toward reliable flight hardware.
• Document requirements, assumptions, interfaces, calculations, schematics, component selections, analyses, test results, procedures, and technical decisions so others can review, reproduce, build, and integrate the work.
• Take increasing ownership as technical capability grows, progressing from supervised design and analysis tasks toward independent circuit-, board-, interface-, or subsystem-level responsibility.
• Support spacecraft mission execution by helping translate mission objectives and constraints into credible electrical designs, analyses, hardware interfaces, integration plans, test approaches, and operational recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree completed, or expected before start date, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, or a closely related technical field.
• Strong academic or project-based grounding in circuits, electronics, digital and analog systems, embedded systems, power electronics, signals, sensors, or related electrical engineering fundamentals, with the ability to explain technical reasoning from first principles.
• Demonstrated hands-on electrical engineering experience through internships, research, student spacecraft or robotics teams, capstone projects, personal projects, laboratories, board bring-up, electronics assembly, or prior employment.

About Katalyst

Katalyst is an American technology company focused on dynamic space operations. We are building a fleet of dual-use multipurpose robotic space vehicles to create a future where maneuvering, upgrading, refueling, resupply, and exploration are routine. By developing foundational capabilities for sustained, responsive operations in space, we enable a new era of exploration that strengthens national security and ensures freedom of action in an increasingly contested domain.

Benefits

• Stock options and equity
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Catered lunches