Senior Electrical Design Engineer

• Designing the LEONS Infrastructure: You'll work directly on the Low Earth Orbit Navigation System (LEONS), developing the hardware that enables GPS-independent time transfer and orbit tracking.
  
• Mastering Precision Timing Chains: You will architect ultra-low-noise, high-speed board designs integrating advanced atomic clocks (like OCXOs/TCXOs), ensuring timing stability down to the nanosecond.
  
• Moving at Startup Velocity: You’ll see your hardware go from a schematic in Altium to bent metal and functional flight payload operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on an incredibly aggressive timeline.
  

Requirements

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field (M.S. preferred).
  
• 10+ years of electrical engineering experience designing complex mixed-signal and RF-adjacent circuit boards (clock/timing distribution, low-noise power, high-speed digital, analog/RF interfaces) for space, aerospace, or other high-reliability hardware, with strong attention to signal and power integrity.
  
• Demonstrated ownership of primary or otherwise complex PCBs from schematic and detailed design through fabrication, bring-up, and functional test, with the ability to walk through prior designs and design decisions in a hands-on interview task.
  
• Experience owning integrated performance of a multi-board electronic system, beyond individual board designs.
  
• Primarily an electrical engineer, with a working understanding of the FPGA/firmware and software that run on the boards you design.
  
• Experience designing for manufacturability and test at production volumes.
  
• Readiness to grow into technical leadership of the payload hardware team, including near-term oversight of a junior engineer.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Self-directed and comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced startup environment.
  
• Must be a U.S. Person.
  

• Experience with GNSS, precision timing, or oscillator and clock-distribution hardware.
  
• Familiarity with SoC/FPGA-based payloads (e.g., Zynq) and the board-level support they require.
  
• Hands-on PCB layout experience, enough to define layout constraints, review routing critically, and work effectively with external layout, fabrication, and assembly partners.
  
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading a hardware team.
  
• Experience supporting multiple hardware generations in parallel while maintaining design and configuration discipline.