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Job Description
Honeybee Robotics' Exploration Systems division is seeking an Electrical Engineer. In this role you will be interfacing with customers and inter-disciplinary project teams to develop electrical components and avionics systems. You will be responsible for flight avionics development, sample acquisition, handling devices, and other instruments used in planetary exploration and space applications. In this role you'll interface with mechanical design, test, systems, integration, software and control engineering disciplines throughout the entire product lifecycle from conception to flight ready hardware.
We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
Special Mentions: - This is an onsite role at our Altadena, CA office
- Relocation assistance is provided
Responsibilities:- Serve as a technical leader within the organization. This includes technical, budgetary and schedule oversight of a small team of engineers, as well as mentoring junior engineers and refining/defining standardized processes
- Design, manufacturing, and checkout of custom high-reliability PCBs for various avionics applications
- Harness design and assembly instructions for high-reliability applications
- Electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) design and documentation
- Define and execute tests at the integrated assembly level in avionics development labs, environmental test labs, radiation test labs and vendor test labs
- Apply technical expertise to problem solving throughout product lifecycle, including design review support and verification planning and execution, scheduling, etc.
- Collaborate with avionics product development team members to identify current technology capabilities, risks, opportunities and challenges and identify and develop solutions
Minimum Qualifications:- Minimum of a B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
- 9+ years of developing and testing complex hardware equipment over the entire product lifecycle
- Passion for hands-on problem solving and avionics integration and test
- Ability to work independently on rapid development programs
- Demonstrate a strong solid understanding of electronics product development with expertise in systems integration
- Familiarity with use of complex computational devices (combinational and sequential logic) to monitor sensors and drive actuators, including design and verification
- Highly organized, safety and quality conscious, with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:- GNC experience
- Experience with radiation testing of EEE components
- Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field
- 12+ years of experience in developing hardware across entire product lifecycle
- Experience developing and testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software
- Experience leading the development and testing of embedded/motorized/power systems
- Experience doing Worst-case analysis, circuit Finite Element Analysis, and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Familiarity with EEE-INST-002 parts classification, selection of radiation-hardness-assured components, and radiation-mitigation strategies
- Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C++; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE (or similar)
- Experience using Altium to design complex printed circuit boards
Base Pay Range for:
CA applicants is $156,802.00 - $219,522.45
Other site ranges may differBenefits- Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.
