Firefly Aerospace

Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Firefly Aerospace$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of hands-on PCB design and hardware development experience
  • Strong skills in schematic capture/layout for digital, analog, and power circuits; proficiency in Altium preferred
  • Competency in requirement generation, block-diagram design, and circuit simulations
  • Experience with electrical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
  • Proficient in using test equipment for circuit verification
  • Excellent organizational skills and vendor interaction experience

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end circuit card development, including schematic capture and layout
  • Develop new features for our common avionics platform across vehicles and spacecraft
  • Perform technical trade studies and detailed design activities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create integrated hardware
  • Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis in a fast-paced environment
  • Implement aerospace guidelines for electronic assembly design

Benefits

  • Generous health, dental, and vision plans with low deductibles
  • Parental leave policy
  • Educational reimbursement opportunities
  • Short term disability coverage
  • Flexible PTO options
Full Job Description
SUMMARY

Firefly Aerospace is pushing the boundaries of space access with rapid launches and lunar missions. We're looking for a hands-on Senior Electrical Engineer who loves getting deep into circuit design including schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, simulations, and rapid prototyping. If you're a tinkerer who thrives in fast-paced development cycles, enjoys troubleshooting to root cause, and want to see your boards fly on launch vehicles and spacecraft, this is your role! You'll own designs for our common avionics platform used across vehicles, working in a collaborative, high-velocity environment in Cedar Park, TX

What You'll Do:
  • Own end-to-end circuit card development: schematic capture and layout for complex digital/analog/power designs, EEE component selection, electrical simulations, and rapid prototyping for flight, qualification.
  • Develop new features and functionality as part of the design team for our common avionics platform used across launch vehicles and spacecraft applications.
  • Perform technical trade studies, requirement capture, conceptual and detail design activities for new and existing designs.
  • Work with experts across teams and departments (systems, mechanical, software, test engineering) to develop tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
  • Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis using standard test equipment, driving issues to closure in a fast-paced setting.
  • Understand and implement aerospace guidelines for development and design of electronic assemblies.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required
  • Bachelor of Science (BS) in electrical engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of hands -on PCB design, hardware development, and integration experience.
  • Strong skills in schematic capture and layout for digital, analog, and power circuits; proficiency with Altium (or similar) preferred.
  • Competent at end-to-end definition, requirement generation, block-diagram design, component selection and circuit simulations.
  • Experience with component selection, circuit simulation/analysis, and electrical troubleshooting/root-cause.
  • Experienced using test equipment to verify component and circuit functionality.
  • Excellent organizational skills, and experience working with vendors
  • Ability to work well with others, be proactive, and execute with minimal guidance

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

About Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace is an aerospace and defense company that develops and manufactures launch vehicles for the small satellite market. The company was founded in 2014 by Tom Markusic and Max Polyakov. Firefly's launch vehicles are designed to provide affordable and reliable access to space for small satellite operators. The company's flagship product is the Alpha rocket, which is capable of delivering payloads of up to 1,000 kg to low Earth orbit. Firefly is backed by a group of investors, including DADA Holdings, Noosphere Ventures, and Astera Institute.
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