Senior Electronics & Avionics Engineer
$137,760–$195,552 year
On-site · Long Beach, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Electronics & Avionics Engineer to own avionics development for a new constellation-ready spacecraft bus — a product line designed to scale to hundreds of spacecraft per year. This is a full-time, exempt position located in Long Beach, CA. Responsibilities include driving make/buy/reuse decisions for avionics boxes, owning in-house box developments end-to-end from kickoff to flight build, managing PCBA critical path, board bring-up and functional checkouts, coordinating radiation testing, defining environmental test requirements, overseeing harness design, designing for production as the product line scales, and interfacing with the Haven-1 avionics team. Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, 8+ years in electronics/avionics design, 3+ years owning hardware programs end-to-end, space-qualified avionics box delivery, strong PCBA design for IPC Class 3 space, radiation testing/rad-hard design, parallel hardware development management, environmental qualification familiarity, and board bring-up experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years of electronics or avionics design experience in aerospace or defense
- 3+ years owning hardware development programs end-to-end
- Designed and delivered space-qualified avionics boxes through full lifecycle (prototype, env test, flight build, ATP)
- Strong PCBA design skills — schematic, layout, component selection for IPC Class 3 space applications
- Experience with radiation testing and rad-tolerant/rad-hard design approaches
- Managed parallel hardware developments on tight timelines
- Familiar with environmental qualification per SMC-S-016 or HALT/HASS, and parts derating per EEE-INST-002
- Comfortable with fast design iteration — Rev 1 as a learning build, Rev A as flight
- Experience with board bring-up, debug, and functional test development
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