Electrical Engineer

The role

You will design, develop, and integrate electrical systems that power and control spacecraft propulsion systems. This includes leading electrical hardware design, lab testing, and debugging across low-to-high voltage subsystems.

What you will do

• Design and develop electrical subsystems for propulsion electronics.
• Lead schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout design.
• Design, tune, and validate DC/DC converters and driver stages.
• Implement precision analog front-ends for telemetry.
• Collaborate with embedded firmware engineers on hardware/firmware interfaces.
• Conduct hardware design and layout reviews.
• Support component sourcing and compliance.
• Develop and execute electrical test plans using Python scripts.
• Troubleshoot and debug electrical systems in a lab environment.
• Develop electrical interface documentation and test procedures.

Required qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years taking mixed-signal designs from schematics to manufacturing and lab bring-up.
• Familiarity with electrical design and simulation tools (e.g., Altium, KiCad, SPICE).
• Fundamental understanding of mixed-signal electronics, power tree design, power conversion, signal integrity, and hardware reliability in harsh space environments.
• Hands-on experience designing embedded microcontroller hardware and peripheral interfaces (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422).
• Experience designing driver circuits for inductive loads (valves, valve drivers, solenoids) and closed-loop DC/DC converters.
• Strong background in precision sensor acquisition and analog signal conditioning (op-amps, filtering, ADC/DAC interfacing).
• Hands-on experience with electrical testing, debugging (oscilloscopes, dynamic loads, power meters), and Python test scripting.

Nice to have

• High-voltage power electronics experience
• Exposure to satellite systems, avionics, or electrical power systems.
• Experience with space environmental testing (e.g., TVAC, vibration, EMI/EMC per MIL-STD-461) and component derating standards (e.g., NASA EEE-INST-002).
• Experience developing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators
• Familiarity with reading embedded C/C++

Before you apply

• For U.S. Roles: applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States (i.e. Green Card holder), or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• For U.K. Roles: requires Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, and successful candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• For Canada Roles: Successful candidates must obtain and hold a security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR

About the company

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar, Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection.