EMC/Avionics Engineer
2 Days Old
Department: Avionics
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Hawthorne, California
Reporting To: Daniel Fuller
Compensation: $130,000 - $175,000 / year
Description
Venturi Astrolab, Inc. (Astrolab) is pioneering new ways to explore and operate on distant planetary bodies. We are singularly focused on designing, building, and operating a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers to extend and enhance humanity's presence in the solar system. We are seeking motivated, creative, and exceptional people to join our world-class team.
As an EMC/Avionics Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring Avionics components are designed to endure the harsh electromagnetic environmental effects of interplanetary space. You will play a pivotal role in architecting rover avionics systems, defining electromagnetic environments design criteria, and designing state-of-the-art avionics systems for the lunar surface with a strong focus on electromagnetic compatibility. You will be joining a company at the ground level and have immense influence over the future of lunar exploration.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate closely within cross-functional Engineering teams to capture requirements, lead design trades, and integrate the design into the spacecraft systems
- Provide critical contributions to full avionics systems/subsystems and operational requirements at the system and component level, with a specific focus on electromagnetic environments design criteria
- Perform analysis and design relating to effects of circuit and power system grounding architectures, structural electrical bonding, circuit isolation, shielding effectiveness, radiated/conducted emissions and susceptibility, near field/far field electrodynamics, and shielding effectiveness
- Troubleshoot EMI issues from board to system level
- Operate and automate a variety of EMI, RF, and electronics test equipment (spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generation, oscilloscopes)
- Create and update technical documentation, including system diagrams, schematics, interface control documents, procedures, and test/anomaly reports
- Support flight hardware component qualification and spacecraft integration testing, including production issue dispositions, troubleshooting failures, and managing overall spacecraft risk
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or other engineering discipline
- 5+ years' of experience in spacecraft systems design and/or avionics component design (academic and personal projects apply), including 2+ years of EMI/EMC requirements, analysis, design, and testing
- Proficient in the use of lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators, logic analyzers, etc
- Proficient with Analytics/Modeling/Simulation tools such as LTSpice, and experience with electrical circuit analysis using simulation tools such as Spice or equivalent
- Familiarity with SMC-S-016 testing requirements, and testing per SMC-S-016
- Knowledge of electrical safety and EMC commercial compliance standards and/or testing per MIL-STD-46 to radiated susceptibility, radiated emissions, conducted susceptibility, conducted emissions standards
- Experience in high-power avionics system designs for spacecraft, including LDO Regulators, Buck/Boost converters, and various spacecraft grounding schemes for high-voltage systems
- Experience in motor controller system designs for brushless DC motors (BLDC) and permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) in both low and high voltage systems
- Ability to read, interpret, and follow circuit schematics, PCB layouts, engineering drawings, BOMs, cable harnesses, wiring schematics, interface diagrams, layout drawings, mechanical drawings, and CAD software
- Creative problem solver who can assess risk and make collaborative design and development decisions
- Strong presentation experience in highly technical design forums and reviews (Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Flight Readiness Reviews, etc.)
- Experience with NX or similar CAD software, including electrical harness routing
- Experience with vehicle-level testing, including writing test procedures, creating robust and efficient test sequencing, and analytical data review to evaluate hardware health
What We Offer:
- Work with a team of best-in-class engineers building the foundation of planetary surface exploration
- Ownership in the company
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with matching
- Flexible time off and parental leave
- On-site snacks, beverages, and 2x weekly lunches
- Flexible work environment
- Location:
- Hawthorne
- Job Type:
- FullTime