Senior Electrical Engineer (Digital)
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Job Location:
Redondo Beach, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 145000 - 180000
Posted on:
11 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Electrical Engineer (Digital Baseband) your core responsibility will be to own architecture design and bring up of custom digital circuit boards for radio basebands. You will work with RF engineers RF software engineers mechanical engineers and others to meet test needs across a wide range of capabilities. You will work on uplink and downlink SDRs utilizing FPGAs high speed digital peripherals DACs ADCs and interfaces to other systems. You will have the opportunity to contribute to all aspects of spacecraft electronics development from architecting new systems to building and operating them.
Responsibilities
- Design and bring up high speed digital baseband systems supporting software defined radios
- Contribute to new spacecraft RF architecture trades
- Develop circuit boards (schematic and layout) for spacecraft with an emphasis on digital electronics
- Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of digital devices and systems
- Perform development testing of hardware in the lab from single digital designs to entire RF systems
- Derive baseband hardware design requirements from system-level specifications
- Evaluate and design for mitigation of desense EMI EMC and co-existence issues.
- Own hardware through qualification and flight operations
- Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
- Improve existing RF products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues performing failure analysis of parts and systems and implementing improvements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 5 years professional experience designing digital electronics
- Proficiency with electronics component selection analysis simulation schematics and layout
- Knowledge of digital circuit design concepts including signal integrity timing etc.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
- Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
- Ability to communicate technical challenges explain rationale and resolve concerns
- Familiarity with high-speed digital simulation software such as Hyperlynx Sigrity SiWave ADS or similar
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with Altium Designer
- Familiarity with electromagnetic sim tools such as ADS HFSS CST Genesys or similar
- Layout experience with large BGA ICs
- Experience with radiation-tolerant digital design including component selection derating SEU mitigation and fault-tolerant architecture
- Familiarity with common RF protocols like SRS4 DVBS-II and CCSDS
- Experience with multi-gigabit SERDES design simulation and testing
- Experience designing high speed digital interfaces such as DDR4/5 PCIe RGMII/SGMII Ethernet
- Experience in a startup or agile development environment
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role level location and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills education experience technical capabilities and internal addition to base salary for full-time hires you may also be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of stock options and access to medical vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Spaces spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e. U.S. citizen U.S. national lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder) an individual granted asylum in the U.S. or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State Commerce or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
