Spacecraft Electrical Engineer

Spacecraft Electrical Engineer
Department: Payload
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Irvine, California
Compensation: $100,000 - $150,000 / year
Description
At Turion Space, we're building spacecraft to secure Earth and expand humanity's reach beyond it. As part of our Electrical Engineering team, you'll help design and build the satellites that make our missions possible.
As an Electrical Engineer at Turion Space, you will take ownership of the design, integration, and testing of electrical hardware that powers our spacecraft bus and payload systems. You will work hands-on across a wide range of development stages from concept to launch. Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of engineers to deliver flight-ready electrical systems. This role requires a high level of technical curiosity, a willingness to dive into unfamiliar territory, and the drive to solve complex problems in support of critical space missions
Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high reliability electrical systems and PCBs for satellite devices.
• Drive system trades, requirements capture, component selection, analysis, schematic capture, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and test.
• Perform PCB troubleshooting and root cause analysis down to component level.
• Be responsible for entire satellite electrical system.
• Define and lead satellite harness definition and fabrication processes.
• Prepare fabrication drawings, assembly drawings, BOMs, and general documentation required for design transfer to fabrication and assembly.
• Maintain and update requirements and design documentation throughout the entire system life cycle
• Maintain effective communication with all the functional groups to ensure project success (such as mechanical, manufacturing, software, test, and supply chain)
• Support on-orbit operations as electrical systems subject matter expert

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field required
• 2-4 years of hardware development experience in PCB board design and layout and electronic system prototyping and validation
• Advanced proficiency with design tools for schematic capture (Altium preferred)
• Comfortable working in the lab with oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and logic analyzers
• Demonstrates strong technical ability and creativity at a fundamental level
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Must be able to obtain a Secret and/or a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Passion for space and curiosity for electronics in high-reliability applications
• Excitement for making systems smarter, better, faster, cheaper
• Experience making products or systems work with minimal time and resources
• Experience with developing fundamentally new hardware, not just incrementally updating legacy hardware
• Experience with circuit simulation tools such as LTSpice
• Soldering skills on surface mount and thru-hole components
• Experience with switching power supply design.
• Experience with requirements management
• Experience with system verification and validation
• Embedded systems and microcontroller implementation and programming
• Understanding of analog high speed and differential signal routing
• Experience with high performance digital processors, FPGAs, memory chips, or network switches
• Experience with circuit board design-for-manufacturability, productization of electronics

ITAR Requirements:
This position may include access to technology and/or software source code that is subject to U.S. export controls. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Benefits

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement Plans: Access to a 401(k) plan.
• Paid Time Off: Generous vacation days, personal days, and holidays to ensure you have time to recharge.
• Professional Development: Opportunities for ongoing training, workshops, and courses to advance your skills and career growth.
• Team Building Activities: Regular social events, team outings, and company-sponsored activities to foster a positive work environment.
• Diverse and Inclusive Culture: A commitment to diversity and inclusion, with initiatives to support a welcoming and equitable work environment.

Turion Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Turion Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.