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Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer - Electric Propulsion

Impulse· Avionics
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Redondo Beach$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer responsible for designing and testing custom circuit boards and avionics devices for Impulse Space's electric propulsion system, owning hardware designs and collaborating across software, propulsion, GNC, and other teams throughout the spacecraft electronics development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • - Independently develop and own circuit boards for spacecraft electric propulsion systems, with an emphasis on actuator drivers and/or power converters
  • - Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems including subsystem and circuit-level trade studies, analyses, and simulations to support design decisions
  • - Act as the Responsible Engineering authority for your hardware, owning your design from requirements definition through detailed design, board bring-up and debugging in the lab through qualification and flight operations
  • - Define hardware interfaces, develop verification approaches, and ensure requirements are verified through analysis and test from system-level specifications
  • - Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, propulsion, and test teams
  • - Perform development testing of hardware in the lab, from single electrical designs to entire electrical systems
  • - Conduct design reviews, technical trade studies, and root-cause investigations
  • - Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
  • - Improve existing products throughout their lifecycle by troubleshooting issues, performing failure analysis of parts and systems, and implementing improvements

Qualifications

  • - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • - 5+ years of professional experience developing electrical hardware
  • - Demonstrate expertise in electronic component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
  • - Knowledge of analog and power circuit design including analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, op-amps, filtering, power and signal integrity, etc.
  • - Hands-on experience troubleshooting complex electronics problems at the board level
  • - Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Skills

Required:Circuit board designElectronics troubleshootingAnalogue and power electronics
Nice to have:Altium Designer

Benefits

  • - Long-term incentives in the form of stock options
  • - Medical, vision & dental coverage
  • - 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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