Lead Electrical Engineer, Human Spaceflight
Lead Electrical Engineer, Human Spaceflight
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Do you want to make a difference immediately Are you ready to apply your Electrical Engineering lead skills now to design develop and manufacture cutting edge life support and thermal control systems for extreme environments on Earth and in space Are you ready to lead in electronics and play a critical role literally doing what has not been done before Can you excel in a team environment and carry your share of the load while also relying on others to do their part If this sounds like you we want you to join Paragon Space Development Corporation!
Description of Duties: Be a high-level technical resource to help guide the design manufacture and qualify high-reliability radiation-hard spaceflight electronics for power data acquisition and control and telemetry.
Duties include:
- Provide guidance for the design of wide temperature range rad-hard electronics solutions for controlling electromechanical flight hardware and data transmission.
- Support Business Development efforts in pursuing electronics-related new business opportunities
- Identify risks develop risk statements and to help plan risk responses as needed.
- Generate documentation such as white papers technical memorandums analysis reports design and development books and product manuals
- Coordinate with Systems Engineering in order to facilitate integration of electrical engineering deliverables with those developed by other teams
- Lead small teams and execute independent projects that are part of larger programs while achieving the technical scope on budget and on schedule
- Interface with customers and suppliers to present technical and programmatic progress and as well as challenges that must be overcome
- Knowledge Skills and Abilities: Ability to serve as Chief Engineer on projects. Ideally but not required: skills in project budgeting and forecasting
- Some knowledge and experience with wide temperature radiation hardened spaceflight electronics design. Experience in coordinating with Radiation Effects EMI/EMC and Component Selection groups as needed.
- Some knowledge and experience with the electrical engineering product lifecycle ranging from requirements development through parts selection design manufacture test and operations
- Some knowledge of Military NASA and JEDEC specifications and requirements related to electronic components.
- Some knowledge and experience in EMI/EMC (MIL-STD-461) Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT)
- Ability to work well with cross-functional teams design engineers line management and project management.
- Knowledge of NASA human spaceflight electrical engineering design standards hardware Life Cycle Certification and Engineering processes and Review Panel (SRP) Process
- Proficiency with Pads or Altium PCB design software Spice circuit simulation software
- Skills with test hardware such as oscilloscopes multi-meters logic analyzers function generators power supplies power analyzers
- Ability to effectively communicate in both written and spoken form. Skill in Microsoft Office applications (Excel Word PowerPoint Visio Project)
- Ability to establish and maintain effective positive work relationships; have creativity flexibility and resourcefulness; have discriminating judgment tact and a sense of humor
Ability to evaluate and train more junior electrical engineers in their duties
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field and 8-10 years with hardware design and analysis experience
Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field and 6-8 years with hardware design and analysis experience
PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field and 4-6 years with hardware design experience in the aerospace industry.
US Citizen or US permanent resident.
Employment Type
Full-Time
