Electrical Power Engineer / Electrical Design Engineer
Job Summary
You’ll design and develop **space-grade electronic hardware**, integrated power conversion, robust communication interfaces and embedded electronics for spacecraft subsystems. Your hardware will manage power and communication reliably in noisy environments, and **survive radiation, vibration and thermal extremes**. This role blends power engineering and digital/analog design across multidisciplinary space projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Power Architecture Design: Develop spacecraft power topologies and implement DC-DC converter, input protection, inrush control and high-reliability power paths for electrical propulsion engine.
- Schematic Development — Create detailed schematics for mixed-signal, power, digital and comms circuit.
- PCB Layout — High reliability PCB design include controlled-impedance routing, differential pairs, creepage/clearance, thermal efficiency and manufacturability.
- Communication Interface Design: Design and validate spacecraft communication buses including RS-485, CAN, I2C, SPI, UART and other interfaces for robust inter-module communication.
- Component Selection — Select radiation-tolerant components for controller such as FPGA or microcontroller, power and communication subsystems.
- Testing and Validation — perform bring-up and board testing, debugging, environment testing and environment test setups.
- Documentation & Review — Produce design documentation, test plans, manufacturing package and participate in design review.
- Cross-team collaboration — Work with multiple cross teams to deliver integrated spacecraft hardware.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong background in DC-DC converter design, switching regulators, power distribution and protection circuits.
- Experience with RS-485, CAN, and other robust industrial/space communication interfaces.
- Experience with schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation and hardware debugging.
- Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation, filtering, shielding and grounding strategies.
- Skilled with Altium, Cadence, KiCad or similar tools.
- Competent with tools such as FPGA, KiCad or OrCad.
- Knowledge of spacecraft Power Processing Units.
- Experience with FPGA or Microcontroller and firmware development (VHDL).
- Experience with radiation-tolerant components.
- Understanding of fault-tolerant architectures, redundancy and watchdog systems.
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineer or a related discipline.
- A Master’s degree or relevant postgraduate research in power electronics, embedded systems, or spacecraft hardware is advantageous.
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