Senior Spacecraft Avionics, Power and Wiring (APW) Engineer

It would be great if you also had

• 7+ years of spacecraft or high-reliability aerospace electrical systems experience, including 3+ years of direct spacecraft avionics, electrical power, and/or wiring experience.
• Demonstrated technical ownership of a spacecraft avionics or APW subsystem through design, integration, environmental test, and delivery.
• Experience with redundant and fault-tolerant avionics architectures, command and telemetry interfaces, time synchronization, and hardware-to-flight-software interfaces.
• Knowledge of grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, fault protection, EMC/EMI, workmanship, and verification principles and standards.
• Experience with spacecraft data buses and electrical interfaces, such as SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, RS-422/485, or comparable protocols.
• Knowledge of radiation effects and radiation-tolerant avionics design considerations.
• Experience with spacecraft EMI/EMC design, analysis, troubleshooting, and test.
• Experience with electrical simulation, analysis, ECAD, or harness-design tools.
• Experience with lithium-ion batteries, solar arrays, spacecraft power electronics, or high-energy electrical systems.
• Experience performing component derating, power quality, and worst-case circuit analyses.

As the Senior Spacecraft Avionics, Power and Wiring (APW) Engineer, you will:

• Develop and maintain a system-level understanding of the spacecraft bus and its avionics, electrical power, and wiring (APW) architectures, interfaces, operating modes, and mission constraints.
• Define and manage spacecraft avionics architectures, including flight computers, command and data handling, data-acquisition hardware, data buses, time synchronization, and command, telemetry, analog, discrete, and digital interfaces.
• Define spacecraft electrical power architectures, including generation, energy storage, regulation, distribution, switching, grounding, redundancy, load shedding, and fault protection.
• Perform trade studies and electrical analyses, including power budgets, mission load profiles, solar-array and battery sizing, component derating, voltage drop, power quality, inrush current, and worst-case circuit analyses.
• Develop and maintain functional block diagrams, electrical schematics, interface-control documents, I/O and power-switching assignments, connector pinouts, and cable/harness designs.
• Define grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, cable separation, wire sizing, connector selection, and harness routing requirements.
• Coordinate APW requirements and interfaces with systems engineering, flight software, GNC, communications, payload, thermal, mechanical, propulsion, and other spacecraft disciplines.
• Develop and manage APW requirements, technical baselines, verification plans, and fault-detection, isolation, and recovery approaches throughout the program lifecycle.
• Work with Moog Supply Chain and suppliers of avionics, power electronics, batteries, solar arrays, harnesses, and other electrical hardware to support procurement and provide technical oversight.
• Prepare and present technical content for trade studies, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, customer presentations, and proposals.
• Develop and support electrical ground support equipment (EGSE), integration plans, test procedures, and verification documentation in coordination with other disciplines.
• Support manufacturing, integration, functional and environmental testing, EMC/EMI testing, troubleshooting, anomaly resolution, and delivery of the APW subsystem.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while supporting program cost, schedule, risk, and proposal activities.

How We Care for You

• Financial Rewards: great compensation package, bonus opportunities, matching 401k, and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan (select locations), Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program, relocation assistance.
• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Professional Skills Development: Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs
• Culture: Warm, respectful, family-like environment driven by our 12 core values. Multiple Employee Resource Groups led by our employees, open and welcoming to all.
• Schedule: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week on a 9/80 schedule.

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Salary Range Transparency

Arvada, CO $115,000.00–$170,000.00 Annually