Spacecraft Electronics Engineer Verified today
About the Role
As a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer, you will design and integrate custom components for Spire's next-generation satellite platform. This includes PCB design, component selection and evaluation, integration of custom sensors, radios and power systems, board bring-up and validation, and collaboration with third-party fabricators and software and mechanical teams.
What You'll Do
- Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design
- Component selection and circuit-level design and simulation
- Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer
- Power supply and power monitoring circuit design
- Design verification through circuit simulations, including worst-case analysis
- Signal and power integrity simulation and analysis
- Peer review of schematics and layouts
- Board bring-up, validation and debugging
- Support for validation and qualification testing of new and existing systems
Required Skills
- Electronics theory, including component knowledge and analogue and digital circuitry expertise
- Board design including schematic capture and PCB layout using enterprise software (Altium preferred) with focus on Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Experience with FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar platform) based designs for high-speed and high data-rate digital signal processing applications
- Strong knowledge of high-speed digital layout design practices (matched impedance, stackup and manufacturing restrictions) and experience using SI tools
- Experience with digital communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet)
- Experience with rigid, flex and rigid-flex PCB design
- Strong debugging experience and fault identification
- Experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, VNAs
Preferred Skills
- Design for IPC-6012DS Class 3A or ECSS-Q-ST-70-12C/60C compliance
- High power electronic design and thermal management
- SI tools experience such as Hyperlynx
- Environmental and component reliability requirements for space applications
- FPGA programming (Verilog, VHDL)
- Embedded and DSP programming (C/C++, microcontrollers, DSP)
- Design experience for EMI/EMC, shields and enclosures
Work Arrangement
Hybrid role requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office (Glasgow, UK).
Export Control
Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. Spire will arrange necessary licenses; candidates do not need these before applying.