Founding Lunar Avionics / Electronics Engineer
About the role
Design and implement avionics and flight software for a 2027 lunar payload, including electronics, firmware, and interfaces with lunar hardware and ground systems.
Responsibilities
- Design the avionics stack: controller boards, power distribution, sensor interfaces and valve actuation electronics.
- Write the flight software for payload sequencing, closed-loop process control, and fault management.
- Own the electrical interface to the CLPS lander (power, data, commanding, telemetry formatting).
- Select and qualify components for the lunar radiation and thermal environment.
- Design and build harnessing, including a lunar umbilical cord exposed on the Moon for our deployable payload.
Qualifications
- Experience designing mixed-signal PCBs from schematic through layout, fabrication, and bring-up (full-cycle).
- RS-485 / serial protocol design: you can write a protocol ICD and define baud rate, framing, CRC, and fault handling from scratch.
Skills
Benefits
- ITAR Requirements compliance (as described in role)
- Four-stage interview process (intro, take-home challenge, onsite, offer)
- Opportunity to contribute to lunar and off-Earth infrastructure projects
About Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth
GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory: patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature and pressure extremes. Our first mission lands on the Moon in 2027 to demonstrate in-situ brick manufacturing and habitat deployment. A second mission lays the hotel's foundation inside a lunar cave, and a third opens the first lunar hotel, targeted for 2032. We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan: 1. Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation. 2. Become the Moon Base Company of America: build roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure. 3. Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there. 4. Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow. 5. Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond—reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization. GRU Space is backed by investors in SpaceX and Anduril, is part of Nvidia's Inception program, and our launch generated 1B+ views across 60+ countries, earning invitations to the White House, Senate, and Pentagon.
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