The Sr. Electronics Design Engineer leads the design and development of electrical systems for missile defense, ensuring product reliability and compliance. Responsibilities include architecture design, component selection, and collaboration across teams.
Long Wall Company was created in 2024 to accelerate missile defense technology for the U.S. and our allies. Building on the RS1 and GS0 launch systems, Long Wall develops containerized, mass-producible missile defense systems and offers rapid, low-cost flight testing. We believe that the future of global security and stability require defensive technology that is lower cost, higher performing, better tested, and more broadly distributed than is possible today. Join us.
What we look for
Mission-Driven Problem Solvers. The aerospace frontier demands ingenuity. We want Team members who approach challenges with curiosity, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, and stay focused on delivering the best solution for the mission.
Total Ownership. We seek staff and engineers who take full responsibility for contributing to and delivering flight-ready work while recognizing that no one succeeds alone. The best engineers, corporate professionals, and technicians make their teammates better. Knowing that complementary skills create force multiplication and drive mission success.
As a Sr. Electronics Design Engineer, you will lead the design, development, build, testing, and commissioning of electrical systems for missile defense technologies at Long Wall. You will have the opportunity to be a key member of a small team of mechanical, fluid, and electrical engineers working to develop innovative deployable missile defense solutions. This individual will be responsible for electrical design, test, and integration, from concept to production, while ensuring alignment with strategic business goals. This is a responsible engineer role that contributes to every mission and every flight we fly as we continue to reimagine the future of missile defense systems.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for communicating with our Platforms.
- Drive electrical architecture, specification, component selection, schematic capture, circuit board layout design, implementation, low-level firmware development, verification, board bring-up, and debugging.
- Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams, and production test teams.
- Derive engineering justification to resolve production issues throughout assembly, test, and vehicle integration
- Generate and maintain design documentation, including schematics, BOMs, and verification test reports.
- Support board bring-up, integration, and qualification testing to ensure flight-ready reliability.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a similar field AND 8 years of relevant experience.
- or Master’s degree AND 6 years of experience.
- or PhD AND 3 years of experience
- Relevant Experience: working in space, aerospace, or equivalent professional environments with direct hands-on experience developing complex electrical power conversion systems.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:
- Hands-on experience designing mixed-signal circuit boards from concept through production
- Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout tools (e.g., Altium Designer)
- Strong skills in testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics
- Experience working in cross-functional teams across software, mechanical, and manufacturing
- Working knowledge of programming languages such as Python or C/C++
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:
- Min. 5+ years of professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products.
- Min. 5+ years of electronic product experience designing hardware from concept through production; strong emphasis on full life cycle development of new hardware products and not small incremental updates to legacy hardware.
- Min. 5+ years of experience designing and implementing mixed-signal circuit host boards from concept through production using processors, FPGAs, SoCs, and SoMs. Experience implementing Ethernet, multi-GHz SerDes, DRAM interfaces (DDR4), PCIe, I2C, SPI, operational amplifiers, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, and power supply components.
- Min. 5+ years of professional experience testing, troubleshooting, and debugging electronics.
- Experience working in military or aerospace industries with a strong background in MIL-STD-461, 464, 810, DO-160 compliance, or similar industrial/automotive standards.
- Strong understanding of computers and programming languages (Python, C/C++).
- Demonstrated ability to work in a highly cross-functional role.
- Self-starter with demonstrated experience on multiple projects, making hardware work within demanding time and resource constraints
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to use a computer to complete assignments
- Ability to communicate with individuals and groups in person, by phone and telepresence
- Ability to pick up to 50lbs
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee will typically work in an office environment
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
ITAR Requirement
This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or citizenship status (when otherwise legally authorized to work and access export-controlled data) and will not be discriminated against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants of all ages.
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