Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

As a Spacecraft Electronics Engineer, you will be designing and integrating custom components for our next-generation satellite platform.

This includes the design of PCBAs; the selection, evaluation, and integration of various off-the-shelf components and custom sensors, radios, and power systems; making last-minute fixes; working with third-party fabricators and assemblers; and interfacing with the software and mechanical teams. You may also participate in guiding software and mechanical design and may be involved at any stage of development including proof of concept to new product introduction.

What You’ll Do:

Electrical Design of Spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design.

Component selection and circuit level design and simulation where required.

Schematic capture and PCB Layout using Altium Designer.

Power supply and power monitoring circuit design

Design verification through circuit simulations, including worst-case analysis

Signal and Power integrity simulation and analysis

Peer review of schematics and layouts

Board bring-up, validation and debugging

Assisting the validation and qualification process for testing new and existing systems.

Key Skills:

Electronics theory, including component knowledge and analogue and digital circuitry expertise.

Experience with FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar platform) based designs for high speed and high data-rate digital signal processing applications.

Strong knowledge of High-speed digital layout design practices (matched impedance, stack up and manufacturing restrictions) and experience using SI tools.

Experience with digital communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet).

Experience with Rigid, Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB design.

Strong debugging experience and fault identification.

Experience with lab equipment including oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, etc.

Preferred Skills:

Design for IPC-6012DS Class 3A or ECSS-Q-ST-70-12C/60C compliance

Experienced in High power electronic design and thermal management.

SI tools experience like Hyperlynx or equivalent.

Experience with environmental and component reliability requirements for space application

Design for FPGA Programming (Verilog, VHDL)

Embedded and DSP programming (C/C++, Microcontrollers, DSP)

Design experience for EMI/EMC, along with use of shields and enclosures.

Design experience with RF electronics.

Access to US export controlled software and/or technology may be required. #LI-DC1

Global Perks

️ Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)

Launch Attendance

Generous Time Off Policy

Education Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

About Spire

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

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