Senior Electrical Engineer, CesiumAstro

• If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you
• We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team
• You are great at what you do, enjoy working in a startup environment, and are passionate about developing leading-edge electronics for satellites, spacecraft, and aerospace systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required
• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree or higher in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university
• Minimum of 4 years of industry or university research experience in board-level electronics design, analysis, and test
• Direct experience designing high-reliability electronics for space or defense applications, including part derating, worst-case analysis, and thermal constraints
• Experience owning the design phase of circuits or boards, including trade studies, key part selection, and detailed design
• Experience delivering subcircuit or board designs to production and deployment
• Experience performing complex PCB layout, such as high-density interconnect (HDI) and high-speed digital or power electronics
• Experience running board-level signal integrity and/or power integrity simulation tools such as Ansys SIwave, ADS SIPro, or Mentor Hyperlynx
• Working knowledge of adjacent fields, such as software and mechanical
• Proficiency in electronics design tools such as Altium
• Strong lab experience for bring-up and verification of new hardware
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Desirable

• At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms
• We are looking to add a Senior Electronics Engineer I to our Digital and Mixed-Signal Electronics team
• At the Senior level, you will be tasked with full-stack hardware development for complex modules
• You will have the opportunity to start at concept development and progress through detailed design, analysis, layout, build, test, and delivery, doing hands-on work at each phase
• At a small company and a startup, your work will make direct contributions to the success of the business
• The work is challenging and impactful, requiring both breadth and depth of technical knowledge
• Our products are made for high-reliability space and airborne applications, so designs require high levels of technical rigor while maintaining the agility of a startup environment
• The successful candidate will also present engineering design review materials to our customers and executive team
• Own end-to-end design of electronics modules, from concept and architecture through schematic, layout, test, and production
• Own the digital and mixed-signal portions of complex RF electronics, such as phased array control circuitry
• Design circuits with FPGAs, processors, microcontrollers, and other complex programmable targets
• Design mixed-signal electronics ranging from software-defined radios to telemetry subsystems
• Perform detailed and complete schematic design for complex boards, ranging from key components to supporting passives
• Perform detailed PCB layout in Altium Designer for complex boards, sometimes working with a PCB Designer
• Complete analysis such as worst-case circuit analysis, signal integrity analysis, and power integrity analysis
• Develop bring-up plans and design verification plans for new electronics modules
• Perform bring-up and key verification testing of modules, often working with a technician to complete validation
• Release modules to production, working with the Manufacturing and Test Engineering teams
• Mentor junior engineers to build technical understanding and professional development
• Use working knowledge of adjacent fields, such as software and mechanical, to streamline development of electronics modules