Dawn Aerospace is looking for a skilled and motivated person to undertake electrical engineering responsibilities for in-space propulsion spacecraft systems. The individual will be working closely with all vehicle sub-teams to design and implement electrical solutions from high-level requirements, all the while contributing to our goal of achieving scalable, accessible and sustainable spaceflight.

Responsibilities

• Translate engineering requirements and specifications into high quality, well-tested, electronic systems
• End-to-end ownership of electronical systems – from specification through design, prototype, validation, and manufacturing
• Design circuit boards for a breath of applications, including digital, analogue, mixed signal, and power electronic systems
• Work alongside engineers from a variety of disciplines
• Coordination with component suppliers
• Clearly document and present designs at various stages of completion
• Project management for the full life cycle of development to production, by actively managing development, and test schedules through to the manufacturing, ensuring timely delivery of flight hardware
• Systems engineering, to ensure that all requirements are met, while no other systems are negatively impacted
• Production of flight hardware, prototype development, selection of vendors and production methods
• System integration of electronics into satellites
• This role may require travel domestically and internationally

Requirements

Required experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• 2+ years relevant experience
• Experience working with digital communication busses, including I2C, CAN, SPI, RS-485
• Experience in selection and use of analogue sensors and signal conditioning circuits
• Experience with PCB design and working with EDA software, such as Altium, Cadence or KiCad
• Experience with design for EMC
• Knowledge of the full life cycle of electronics development (requirements, to basic circuits, to a full design and the subsequent production)
• Experience with testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronic hardware
• Proficiency with basic electrical laboratory equipment, including scopes and vector network analysers
• Knowledge of systems engineering
• Ability to work in a highly cross-functional role
• Proven oral and written communication skills (English)

Desired experience

• 2+ years of experience designing high-reliability products
• Wide range of hands-on skills from PCB assembly to wire harness/cable tree construction to automotive/aerospace standards
• Experience writing embedded software in C or Rust
• Experience using mechanical CAD software
• Experience with high-reliability electronics (e.g. DO-254)
• Wide experience from microcontrollers to x86s, and from PLDs to FPGAs.
• Experience with RF systems
• Basic understanding of mechanical design fundamentals
• Experience in other programming languages either Python, C, C++, or Rust
• Experience with version management systems such as Git
• Experience with PCB layouting of high-speed busses

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