Chief Engineer - Electrical Engineering

• ◆Own the technical baseline and architectural direction for electrical and avionics systems across Hardware, Firmware, Harnessing, Launch Vehicle Systems, and Spacecraft Systems.
• ◆Define and own spacecraft and launch vehicle electrical architectures, including power generation/distribution/storage, command and data handling, communication interfaces, and harnessing.
• ◆Establish, maintain, and enforce electrical engineering design standards, processes, and best practices.
• ◆Lead the development, allocation, and management of system and subsystem electrical requirements, ensuring traceability, verification, and validation.
• ◆Lead and chair major design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR) and technical risk assessments; sign off on design maturity and readiness.
• ◆Drive the common modular architecture effort to maximize reuse and commonality across launch vehicles and spacecraft.
• ◆Provide technical direction and oversight to electrical, power, avionics, FPGA/ASIC, firmware, and harness teams; review and approve key design artifacts, analyses, schematics, ICDs, power budgets, and test plans.
• ◆Lead trade studies (power architectures, redundancy, component selection, radiation tolerance, derating, thermal/electrical interfaces) to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and risk.
• ◆Ensure compliance with space environmental

(radiation, EMI/EMC, thermal, vacuum, launch loads) and guide EEE parts selection, qualification, and derating.

• ✓Define and guide integration and test strategies, including functional testing, hardware-in-the-loop, environmental qualification (vibration, shock, TVAC, EMI), and system-level verification.
• ✓Support failure analysis, anomaly resolution, and root-cause/corrective action during development, integration, test, and on-orbit operations.
• ✓Collaborate closely with Systems Engineering, Mechanical, Software, RF, GNC, Mission Assurance, and other disciplines to ensure balanced, integrated vehicle designs.
• ✓Support department management with product/technology roadmaps, IRAD direction, proposal technical volumes, BOEs, risk assessments, and new business capture.
• ✓Mentor and develop engineers at all levels, promoting rigorous engineering practices and a culture of technical excellence.
• ✓Continuously improve internal processes, tools, analysis methods, and design-for-manufacturing/test practices.

• ✓Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.
• ✓15+ years of progressive experience in electrical or avionics engineering for complex aerospace systems (launch vehicles and/or spacecraft), including significant technical leadership responsibility.
• ✓Demonstrated experience as technical authority or chief/lead engineer on flight hardware programs, owning architecture and design integrity through development, integration, test, and flight.
• ✓Strong technical depth in spacecraft/launch vehicle power systems, avionics/data handling (including common buses such as SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet), harnessing, and related disciplines.
• ✓Proven experience with EEE parts selection and derating, radiation effects (TID, SEE) and mitigation,

management, and space environmental qualification.

• ✓Track record leading multi-disciplinary teams, conducting trade studies, resolving complex technical issues, and balancing technical performance with cost and schedule constraints.
• ✓Experience taking designs from concept through high TRL / flight qualification, including PCB assemblies, firmware, and system-level integration and test.
• ✓Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare and present complex technical material to engineering teams, leadership, and external customers.
• ✓Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines.