Electrical Engineer (Prism)

The role

You will own the non-RF electronics design for Prism, a 2.4-meter parabolic antenna. This involves designing digital compute, power, embedded, and mixed-signal hardware from block diagram through production release.

What you will do

• Own the electrical design of Prism's non-RF electronics including high-speed digital, power electronics, embedded control, and mixed-signal circuits
• Architect and design high-density boards built around FPGAs, microcontrollers, high-speed data converters, and peripherals
• Define clocking architectures including reference selection, clock distribution, jitter budgets, and synchronization
• Design power trees from input power and conversion stages to point-of-load regulators, sequencing, monitoring, and protection
• Design mixed-signal interfaces between digital and analog/RF domains
• Drive schematic capture, define PCB stack-ups, and lead layout of complex multilayer boards
• Lead board bring-up and design verification

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related engineering discipline
• 3-4 years of professional experience designing electronics hardware, with ownership of boards from schematic through bring-up
• Hands-on design experience with high-speed digital systems built around FPGAs and/or microcontrollers
• Experience designing board-level clocking and power distribution for complex digital systems
• Proficiency in schematic capture, PCB stack-up definition, and layout of complex multilayer boards
• Working knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI/EMC design practices

Nice to have

• Design experience with dense, high-pin-count FPGAs (e.g., AMD/Xilinx UltraScale+ or RFSoC) and the DDR, SerDes, and JESD204B/C interfaces around them
• Low-jitter clock design: PLLs, jitter cleaners, clock fan-out, and clocking for high-speed data converters
• Power electronics design: DC-DC converters, multiphase and point-of-load regulators, sequencing, hot-swap, and protection circuits
• Embedded hardware design for microcontroller-based control and monitoring, with common interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, and Ethernet
• Mixed-signal design, including precision analog, data converter front ends, and sensor interfaces
• Lab skills with oscilloscopes, spectrum and network analyzers, and electronic loads, plus soldering and hot air rework
• Python (or similar) for test automation and data analysis

Before you apply

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. They design, build, and rapidly deploy scalable systems for a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations.