Avionics Engineering Manager
2 weeks ago
Avionics Engineering Manager
Torrance, CA – Relocation Assistance Provided
The Company
Our client's mission is to expand humanity's frontier into the solar system and beyond. The next step on this journey is to enable manufacturing and habitation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our client's plan to make this a reality is to build artificial gravity space stations.
The Job
Our client is looking for an Avionics Engineering Manager, reporting to the Director of Avionics Engineering, to support the development of avionics systems required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
Functions
- Lead team to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art avionics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments.
- Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop on-vehicle components from initial requirements to vehicle installation.
- This role is both managerial and technical, and you will have significant input, guidance, review, and oversight on your team's work.
- Exemplify a culture of excellence, extreme ownership, and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.
- Communicate with various Vast internal stakeholders to capture project design criteria from the technical system owners and translate them into verifiable avionics design requirements for your team to implement.
- Identify project level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in electrical circuit design, analysis and testing
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
- Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes
- Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design
- Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software
- Experience managing the design of technical projects
- Experience with circuit simulation software such as LTSpice or SIMPLIS
- Deep understanding of electrical design and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
- Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components
Preferred Skills
- Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage
- Familiarity with spacecraft avionics systems and knowledge of space environment effects
- Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs
- 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
- 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
- Familiarity with NASA standards such as EEE-INST-002
- Develop and implement engineering standards, protocols, and quality assurance processes to optimize system performance and safety
- Conduct technical feasibility studies, simulations, and performance analyses to support project development
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