The Opportunity
As an Electrical Engineer for the Avionics Team, you will support development and production aerospace hardware used in Astra’s launch vehicles. You will be involved in all stages of development for avionics components and play an important role in pushing designs from concept all the way through qualification for flight.Type Text Here
How You'll Fulfill Your Mission
Schematic Capture, PCB Layout and Component Library Component Creation:
- Draft new and modify existing schematics
- Perform simplistic layouts for lab test PCBs
- Validate bills-of-material reports for contract manufacturers
Hardware Testing and Validation:
- Draft and execute test plans for hardware performance validation
- Author and execute test utilities for targeted hardware testing
- Capture screenshots of measurements
- Log and record generated data
- Simulate circuits for conceptual feasibility
- Perform measurements using all types of test equipment including DVMs, oscilloscopes, function generators, spectrum analyzers and logic analyzers
Troubleshooting:
- Evaluate problems and devise methods for investigation
- Perform targeted updates to test solutions
- Document root cause and proper mitigation methods with justifications
Why We Value You
- 2+ years of hands-on electrical engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or high-reliability manufacturing
- Strong electrical and electromechanical troubleshooting skills
- Analog and digital circuit design
- Ability to read and interpret schematics, engineering drawings, wiring diagrams, and test procedures
- Familiarity with test equipment such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies and data acquisition systems
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality workmanship
Desired Multipliers
- Aerospace production or spacecraft hardware experience
- Experience using Altium Designer for schematic capture and layout
- Usage of LTSpice for simulations
- MATLAB programming experience
- Python, C and C++ programming experience
- Working knowledge of I2C, SPI, Ethernet and UART interfaces
- Linux command line familiarity
- EMC/EMI mitigation methods
- STM32 and Xilinx Zynq experience