Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Avionics Systems Specialist

4 days ago

Long Beach, California, United States Vast Full time
Job Summary

Vast is seeking a highly skilled Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Avionics to join our team. As a key member of our Avionics Hardware Engineering team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing avionics hardware for our state-of-the-art commercial space station.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for our commercial space station.
  • Perform component selection, design analysis, schematic capture, circuit board design, prototyping, board bring-up, debugging, circuit validation, and design documentation for electrical designs.
  • Analyze and troubleshoot electronic assemblies, define new processes, design circuits/fixtures/tools, and identify opportunities for improvement in both products and processes.
  • Support or act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.
  • Support build and process improvement through troubleshooting build problems and work to simplify and streamline recurring work to enable higher reliability of the avionics hardware.
  • Support mission operations by providing real-time input during flight, completing data reviews, monitoring hardware performance, and working with partners to simplify operation of our avionics systems.
  • Work with experts from other teams and departments to ensure that fielded systems perform their function while being efficient, manufacturable, and reliable.
  • Define acceptance testing and qualification requirements of new and existing hardware, perform development and qualification testing to prove out design, and formally document test results.
  • Travel to launch sites for testing and/or operations.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience with avionics design, analysis, and/or unit level testing.
  • Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.
  • Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.
Preferred Skills & Experience
  • Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software.
  • Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences.
  • Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multi-disciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions.
  • Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.
  • Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.
  • Experience with wire harness design and build, including associated sub-components.
  • Experience with NX or similar CAD software.
  • Competence with electrical test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power supplies, etc.).
  • Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data.
  • Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills.
  • Strong sense of accountability and integrity with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere.

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