Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Space Hardware

Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Space Hardware

Orlando, FL | Hybrid | $130,000–$180,000 + Benefits

We’re working with a well-funded space technology company developing space-based LiDAR systems for a new generation of commercial satellite missions.

They’re looking for a Senior Electrical Design Engineer who can take genuine ownership of electronics hardware — from requirements and circuit architecture through component selection, schematic design, PCB development, bring-up, test and qualification.

This is not a PCB layout-only, FPGA-only or systems integration role. We’re looking for an engineer who enjoys getting into the details of how a circuit works, why components were selected, how it could fail, and what needs to change when hardware has to operate reliably in space.

What you'll be doing

• Own electrical hardware designs from concept through flight-ready hardware
• Design analog, digital, mixed-signal and power circuitry
• Select components and perform detailed circuit analysis, simulation and design verification
• Develop schematics and drive complex PCB/CCA designs through layout and fabrication
• Design power distribution, DC/DC conversion, regulation, filtering and protection circuitry
• Develop high-speed interfaces involving technologies such as LVDS, SerDes, FPGA/processor interfaces, ADC/DAC, Ethernet, PCIe or similar
• Perform signal integrity, power integrity, timing and noise analysis
• Personally support board bring-up, debugging, test and troubleshooting in the lab
• Design around hardware failure modes and ensure appropriate fault protection and reliability
• Develop electronics for the realities of the space environment, including radiation, vacuum, thermal cycling, derating, outgassing and thermal management
• Work directly alongside optical, mechanical, software, FPGA and systems engineers in a small multidisciplinary team

What we're looking for

You’ll likely have 7+ years of hands-on electrical/electronics hardware design experience and be comfortable personally owning complex board-level designs.

Strong experience in several of the following is particularly relevant:

• Schematic capture and circuit design
• PCB / CCA design ownership
• Analog and mixed-signal electronics
• High-speed digital and differential signaling
• Power electronics / power distribution
• DC/DC converters, regulators and filtering
• FPGA, processor, ADC/DAC and sensor interfaces
• Signal integrity and power integrity
• Clocking, synchronization and precision timing
• Noise analysis
• Component selection and derating
• EMI/EMC design
• Board-level FMEA / failure analysis
• Hardware bring-up and laboratory debugging

Experience designing electronics for spacecraft, satellites, avionics, aerospace, defense, scientific instrumentation, imaging systems or other high-reliability hardware would be particularly valuable.

Direct LiDAR experience is not required.

Why join?

This isn't a role where you'll own one small piece of a design and pass it downstream.

You'll join a small, highly technical engineering team and have significant influence over the electrical architecture of hardware that will ultimately operate in orbit.

The company has secured $40M+ in venture funding alongside significant commercial demand for its technology, and this hire will play an important role in taking its next generation of space hardware from development into deployment.

Location: Orlando, Florida – Hybrid

Salary: $130,000–$180,000 + benefits

Position: Full-time