Lifecycle Electrical Engineer (Prism) - New Grad

The role

You will own the designs of deployed modules and circuitry spanning RF, power, and high-speed digital electronics. You will operate and improve the ground segment network by driving investigations into fielded systems and developing component and subsystem updates.

What you will do

• Own electronics systems deployed in Prism systems from cradle to grave
• Observe performance and degradation of electronics deployed on Prism systems
• Drive root cause investigations and corrective actions on in factory and deployed ground station
• Provide design and analysis inputs to drive reliable design, test, and qualification campaigns
• Drive design improvements to modules, from design to schematic capture to layout, manufacture, and deployment
• Test prototypes and assess performance in the lab and in the field
• Work with production teams to make testable and manufacturable products

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics or a related field
• 2-4+ years of professional experience in electrical design
• Experience with end-to-end board design, from architecture and component selection through schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, debug, and production
• Hands-on experience debugging complex hardware systems using advanced lab instrumentation and driving root-cause analysis across board and system levels

Nice to have

• Experience driving root cause and corrective action campaigns with thorough and systemic processes: fish bone, 5 Whys, etc.
• Hands-on project team experience (Formula SAE, rocketry, CubeSat, etc.)
• Deep understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC mitigation, PCB stack-up definition, and high-performance board layout practices
• RF design or test experience with LNAs, power amplifiers, filters, or up/down converters (gain, noise figure, compression, spurious)
• High-speed digital design experience with FPGAs, SerDes, data converters, or 10/100G Ethernet, including signal and power integrity analysis
• Power electronics design experience, such as DC-DC converters, sequencing, and protection circuits
• Experience with troubleshooting EMI/EMC, either conducted or radiated
• Experience with mixed-signal electronics design and complex multilayer PCBs, including stack-up definition and material selection

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 that power the next generation of space missions.