Digital Electronics Engineer

The Role

As a Digital Electrical Engineer on the hardware team, you will be responsible for owning the design, manufacture, test and deployment of highly integrated PCBAs used by a large number of space customers. You will work with a small team of software, RF hardware, and FPGA engineers to shepherd the product from initial design to vehicle integration, taking a full-stack approach to building robust space communication systems.

Responsibilities

• Design high-speed digital hardware including processors, FPGAs, memory, interfaces, and supporting circuitry
• Perform trades and analyses of board architecture and component selection
• Schematic capture and layout of space-grade PCBs
• Bring-up and testing of new designs
• Partner with RF engineers, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams and production test teams to drive designs end-to-end
• Work with mechanical engineers to ensure proper thermal dissipation of devices
• Work with supply chain counterparts to enable rapid manufacture and iteration of components
• Design for performance under space-grade acceptance, qualification, and compliance requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or other STEM discipline
• 3+ years of professional experience designing high-speed digital circuitry
• Proven experience designing boards using EDA tools such as Altium Designer
• Experience designing and debugging Xilinx RFSoC / MPSoC-based systems or equivalent platforms
• Experience debugging SoCs across the bootup stack (baremetal/bootloader/linux)
• Experience in modeling, simulation, and testing of digital and power electronics
• Familiar with failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMEA)

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, Ethernet, multi-GHz Serdes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components
• Deep understanding with configuration and interfacing of memory, volatile and nonvolatile
• Experience designing power trees with complex sequencing requirements
• Familiar with failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMEA)
• Experience selecting and monitoring components capable of performing in a radiation environment

Compensation

The estimated base salary range for this role is $130,000-$180,000 per year, plus equity. This range reflects our good-faith estimate for this position at the time of posting. The final base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including the candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skills, and market considerations. In addition to base salary, total compensation includes an equity grant and our full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision), HSA's and 401K program.

Export Control Requirements

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, applicants must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.