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Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer

Impulse· Avionics
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Redondo Beach$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer responsible for designing and testing custom circuit boards and avionics devices for space vehicles, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to all aspects of spacecraft electronics development from design to integration and flight operations.

Responsibilities

  • Develop circuit boards for spacecraft, with an emphasis on analog, digital or control electronics
  • Contribute to new spacecraft avionics architecture trade
  • Perform rigorous analyses and simulations of avionics devices and systems
  • Act as the Responsible Engineering authority for your hardware, owning your design from board bring-up and debugging in the lab through qualification and flight operations
  • Define hardware interfaces and verify requirements
  • Establish and maintain high technical standards and mentor less experienced engineers
  • Partner with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing and test teams

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years professional experience designing digital electronics for rockets, spacecraft, or other vehicles
  • Proficiency with electronics component selection, analysis, simulation, schematics, and layout
  • Knowledge of digital circuit design concepts including signal integrity, timing, etc.
  • Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board level or system level
  • Desire to improve team processes and train other team members
  • Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and/or resolve concerns

Skills

Required:Electrical engineeringDigital and analog circuit designTeam collaboration and mentoring
Nice to have:Altium DesignerHigh-speed digital interfaces

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, in the form of stock options
  • medical, vision & dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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