Avionics Engineering Manager
On-site · Torrance, California, United States
Job Summary
Avionics Engineering Manager leading a team to design, develop, and deploy avionics for artificial-gravity space stations; responsibilities include recruiting and empowering engineers from requirements to vehicle installation, overseeing system-level design and verification, and communicating design criteria to stakeholders. Qualifications include a BS in Electrical Engineering, 5+ years in electrical circuit design and testing, 2+ years in engineering leadership, experience with avionics test equipment, PCB design (Altium), PCBA design, circuit simulation (LTSpice/SIMPLIS), and familiarity with NASA standards; preferred experience with space flight heritage and spacecraft avionics systems. Locations: Torrance, CA with relocation assistance.
Required 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
- 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
- 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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