Electrical Hardware Engineer III - Avionics Verified today
About the Role
The Electrical Hardware Engineer III for Avionics at Voyager Lunar Systems is responsible for design, manufacturing, and testing of electrical hardware and avionics components across all product lines. You will report to the Electronic Systems Manager and work hybrid based in Pittsburgh, PA.
What You Will Do
- Design PCBs for spacecraft primary and secondary avionics systems
- Perform trade studies on electronic components and select options for engineering and flight avionics units
- Develop test procedures for component, board-level, and system-level integrated testing
- Test fabricated PCBs and integrated avionics systems
- Participate in environmental tests of engineering design units
- Participate in qualification tests of flight design units
- Program embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, or similar
- Implement the full systems engineering development cycle and report progress to the Avionics Lead
- Support hardware-in-the-loop testing with engineering and flight systems
- Write and present technical reports
Minimum Qualifications
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 2+ years of experience in electronics hardware development
- Schematic and board design proficiency using Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, or similar software
- Experience using standard electrical lab equipment (power supply, electronic load, multimeter, oscilloscope) to execute test procedures for assembled PCBs or integrated systems
- Rapid prototype development skills
- Strong debugging skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing electronic hardware including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, filtering, data acquisition, and command and data handling (C&DH)
- Experience writing test plans and procedures for PCBA and/or integrated system bring-up, design verification, qualification, and acceptance testing
- Experience developing test scripts in Python to automate PCBA and/or integrated system test execution
- Experience performing trade studies for electrical and avionics system architectures, components, and parts
- PCBA inspection and rework experience to IPC-A-610 Class 3 requirements
- Systems engineering experience for controlling requirements, risks, and integration flow
- Programming capability for embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, or similar
- Familiarity with NASA-STD 4001 and NASA-STD 4003 or similar standards
- Digital, analog, and signal conditioning circuit design experience
- Testing experience to MIL-STD-461 or similar standards
Requirements
ITAR compliance required. Applicants must be a US Person: a US Citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the US, or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3). Applicants must be eligible to obtain any required export authorizations from the US Department of State or the US Department of Commerce.
Compensation and Benefits
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families, with company covering a significant portion of premiums and many benefits paid at 100% for employees
- Flexible, affordable gym memberships with 12,700+ options nationwide
- 401(k) retirement plan with 50% company match on contributions up to 8%
- Company wellness programs
- Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources