Senior Electrical & Avionics Systems Engineer

Role Overview

A Firefly Senior Avionics Systems engineer is responsible for the design, development, and testing of avionics systems on our spacecraft. In this role, you lead and develop the avionics systems, requirements verifications, and component/system level test campaigns.

What You Will Do

Own the entire process of designing the electrical architecture, testing and integrating avionics components onto the spacecraft, support assembly, integration, and test (AIT), launch integration, and on-orbit operations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will possess one or more of the following: experience with spacecraft avionics systems design, development, production, test, and operations, experience with Power engineering, design, budgeting, and test, experience in software engineering, especially C, C++, Python, and Labview.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
• 7+ years of experience working with aerospace component development, testing, integration, or operations
• 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering in both analog and digital circuit design
• Experience performing trade studies and sensitivity studies to select the best architecture option
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with prototyping circuits and testing
• Requirement writing and verification
• Experience in technical writing, proper documentation, and SOP creations
• Candidate must have a proactive mentality with the ability to self-start
• Experience with Python
• Strong electrical troubleshooting experience with the ability to drive problems to root-cause and closure

Benefits

• generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles
• parental leave
• educational reimbursement
• short term disability
• flexible PTO options