Avionics Engineer

Reflect Orbital

• $100K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of avionics or electronics engineering experience, preferably in spacecraft.
  • Experience designing and validating PCBAs for space or high-performance vehicles.
  • Ownership of multiple high-reliability electronics subsystems from concept to deployment.
  • Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy.
  • Experience iterating on requirements and architecture for optimal designs in constrained trade spaces.
  • Proficiency in troubleshooting electronics systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own avionics system-level design and interfaces, making system-level trades.
  • Prototype and validate flight computers, communication systems, and electronics for power systems and ADCS.
  • Establish best practices and tooling for electrical engineering design.
  • Develop in-house avionics testing infrastructure including flatsat, GPS simulator, and communication simulator.
  • Design and execute qualification testing for avionics under various environmental conditions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% of base policy costs covered.
  • Access to Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and 401K options.
  • Unlimited paid time off for improved work-life balance.
  • Daily provision of healthy lunches to promote employee wellness.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As an Avionics Engineer, you will have zero to one design ownership of electronic subsystems on our first spacecraft. You will be responsible for designing, building, testing and improving reliable space-ready components. The ideal candidate will have strong experience working on spacecraft.

Responsibilities
  • Own avionics system-level design & interfaces and make system-level trades
  • Prototype, design, bring up and validate flight computers, communication systems, and electronics for power systems and ADCS
  • Establish best practices and tooling for electrical engineering design
  • Develop in-house avionics test infrastructure - flatsat, GPS sim, power sim, comms sim, etc.
  • Design and execute avionics qualification testing for vibration, shock, thermal and thermal vacuum environments and own your hardware into flight operation


Ideal Qualifications
  • You have 4-6 years of avionics or electronics engineering experience, ideally on spacecraft.
  • You've designed and validated PCBAs for the space environment or similar high performance environments/vehicles
  • You've owned multiple high-reliability electronics subsystems from concept to deployment
  • You can succeed with a high level of autonomy
  • You've iterated on requirements and architecture to achieve an optimal design in a highly constrained trade space
  • You have experience hacking and crawling through electronics systems to troubleshoot issues


Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital's success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we're able.
  • Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy
  • Access to HSA, FSA, and 401K
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Healthy lunches provided daily

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