Lead Electrical Hardware Engineer – Avionics

The role

You will manage the Avionics team responsible for designing, manufacturing, and testing in-house avionics hardware. This includes leading flight hardware development and providing technical guidance to team members and partners.

What you will do

• Leading the development of flight hardware avionics
• Lead daily operations, scheduling, and tasking for the avionics team
• Providing technical and programmatic guidance to internal avionics team members and partner support personnel
• Establish review process for avionics engineering products prior to release and manufacturing
• Provide subject matter expertise in subsystem and vehicle phase-gate, milestone design reviews as independent reviewer
• Define internal work processes and standards for hardware design, circuit analysis, test execution, and result documentation
• Drive rapid troubleshooting, failure investigation, and resolution of electrical anomalies
• Contribute to avionics product roadmap and R&D prioritization

Required qualifications

• Experience in component/LRU electrical design
• 6+ years of experience in electronics hardware development
• B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Equivalent Work Experience
• Schematic and board design proficiency using software like Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, or similar
• Ability to mentor and lead small teams of engineers to design complex products

Nice to have

• Experience in developing spacecraft electronics systems for a Class D unmanned spacecraft or similar
• Experience in High-Speed Digital printed circuit board design
• Experience implementing VITA VPX or SpaceVPX standards (VITA 46.0, VITA 65.0, VITA 78.0)
• Microsoft Project/JIRA or similar task management and scheduling tools
• Knowledge of Range Safety and Ground Safety electronics compliance
• Capable of utilizing mechanical computer aided design (CAD) tools to develop avionics systems
• Capable of programming FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, graphic processors, or similar
• Knowledge of NASA-STD 4001 and NASA-STD 4003 or similar
• Knowledge of space environmental tests
• Experience with testing for MIL-STD 461 or similar

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible, affordable gym memberships
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%
• Company wellness programs
• Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. Person: a US Citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)
• Applicants must be eligible to obtain any required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce

About the company

Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company. They tackle complex challenges to deliver transformative, mission-critical solutions.