Avionics Engineer Verified today

Reflect Orbital · Hawthorne, CA · Electronics · first seen 2026-07-16

About the Role

As an Avionics Engineer, you will have zero to one design ownership of electronic subsystems on our first spacecraft. You will be responsible for designing, building, testing and improving reliable space-ready components.

Responsibilities

  • Own avionics system-level design and interfaces and make system-level trades
  • Prototype, design, bring up and validate flight computers, communication systems, and electronics for power systems and ADCS
  • Establish best practices and tooling for electrical engineering design
  • Develop in-house avionics test infrastructure including flatsat, GPS sim, power sim, and comms sim
  • Design and execute avionics qualification testing for vibration, shock, thermal and thermal vacuum environments and own your hardware into flight operation

Experience and Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of avionics or electronics engineering experience, ideally on spacecraft
  • Experience designing and validating PCBAs for the space environment or similar high performance environments
  • Track record owning multiple high-reliability electronics subsystems from concept to deployment
  • Ability to succeed with a high level of autonomy
  • Experience iterating on requirements and architecture to achieve optimal design in constrained trade spaces
  • Experience troubleshooting and debugging electronics systems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage with Reflect covering 100% of each base-policy
  • Access to HSA, FSA and 401K
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Daily healthy lunches provided