Senior Electrical Engineer
Orbit Fab
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Posted:
December 15, 2022
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Onsite
About the position
Orbit Fab is seeking an engineer to join their team and contribute to the development of a fuel supply infrastructure in space. The company aims to enable satellite refueling, allowing for lower-cost satellite construction, increased flexibility and maneuverability, and longer operational lifetimes. The ideal candidate will have experience in space systems engineering, avionics, and electronics, and will possess leadership skills to guide technical development and mentor junior team members. This is a hands-on engineering role with the potential for growth into a technical leadership position. The work will be based in Lafayette, CO, and will involve collaborating with a diverse team on various projects.
Responsibilities
- Define, review, and critique engineering processes.
- Lead technical decision-making processes and technical development across various space systems disciplines.
- Conduct technical reviews.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior EE team members.
- Guide electrical engineering processes and facilitate technical trades across the system.
- Identify technical issues and proactively implement resolutions to mitigate schedule and cost impacts.
- Design, test, and fly electrical and avionics systems across Orbit Fab's Tankers, Docking Hardware, and Spacecraft Fill/Drain components.
- Perform circuit/board design.
- Conduct board bring up.
- Engage in rapid prototyping for testing.
- Conduct EEE Parts and/or Radiation Parts Analysis.
- Design for electronics mission lifetime and architecture.
- Perform Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) Testing.
- Participate in the development of systems engineering products, spacecraft architecture, trade studies, requirements development, verification, and validation plans.
- Identify and interface with vendors for spacecraft electrical components selection and planning.
- Provide technical mentorship to team members and monitor the technical integrity of all team member contributions.
- Contribute technical knowledge around electrical engineering/avionics to proposal development and writing.
- Monitor and adhere to efficient program budgets, schedules, and resource plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, physics, mathematics, or other related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in spacecraft electronics design, development, and/or testing across multiple flight projects/programs
- Ability and desire to mentor and advise junior team members in a collaborative environment
- Design experience and mission heritage in GEO or deep space missions and a technical authority in design methodology, ramifications, and design selection process for GEO and/or deep space avionics hardware design
- Experience taking multiple products or multiple iterations of a single product from concept phase through prototyping, launch, and operation
- Demonstrated leadership of space systems electrical engineering teams
- Familiarity and appreciation for multiple spacecraft engineering disciplines
- Familiarity with the spacecraft component supply chain and contacts or relationships with vendors across the supply chain
- Experience with circuit design/modeling software (e.g. Altium), SPENVIS, Matlab, JIRA or JIRA-like tools (e.g. Asana), and requirement
Benefits
- Fully covered benefits
- Flexible work hours