Senior Flight Electronics & Avionics Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate flight electronics, avionics, power distribution systems, and vehicle electrical architectures
• Develop schematics, PCB designs, cable harnesses, grounding strategies, and electrical interfaces
• Define electrical requirements and interface specifications for vehicle systems and payload integrations
• Support architecture development for power systems, telemetry, command and control, sensors, and flight computers
• Perform component selection, electrical analyses, worst-case analyses, and reliability assessments
• Support hardware bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and qualification testing
• Develop and execute electrical test plans for subsystem and integrated vehicle testing
• Work with flight software and GNC teams to integrate sensors, controllers, and avionics hardware
• Support environmental testing including vibration, thermal vacuum, and EMI/EMC
• Participate in launch campaigns, vehicle integration activities, and anomaly investigations
• Drive hardware from concept through flight via rapid design iterations

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 7+ years of professional electrical engineering experience
• Experience designing complex electrical systems for aerospace, defense, spacecraft, or robotics
• Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit design
• Experience with schematic capture and PCB design tools
• Experience troubleshooting electrical hardware in laboratory and test environments
• Ability to read and create electrical drawings and interface control documents
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee
• Ability to maintain or obtain a Government Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 9+ years of professional electrical engineering experience
• Experience with power electronics, battery systems, and power distribution architectures
• Experience with communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, RS-485, SPI, I2C, and UART
• Experience with FPGA-based systems, embedded processors, or flight computers
• Knowledge of EMI/EMC design practices and qualification testing
• Experience with environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal, and vacuum

About the Company

Space Kinetic is a dual-use space technology startup building a new architecture for space operations, bringing the advantages of proliferated drone technology to space missions while reducing reliance on consumable fuel.