Principal Electrical Design Engineer

Team: Engineering

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: onsite

Responsibilities:

• Develop advanced electronic platforms, from architecture to manufacturing
• Work closely with software, firmware, RF, antenna, digital, and mechanical design engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art spacecraft electronics
• Create requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, design complex electronic assemblies and manage manufacturing
• Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, manufacturing, and test campaigns
• Rapidly iterate on and improve electronic designs based on laboratory, environmental and on-orbit testing
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk reduction planning, and mentorship of early-career engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in electronics design, bring-up, and test
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
• Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner
• High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on experience with full-life cycle hardware development (concept to production) in consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics
• Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, fabrication considerations, layout constraints, component selection, and measurement
• Background in electromagnetic theory and RF fundamentals such as S-parameters, transmission lines, and broadband impedance matching
• Hands-on experience designing high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches)
• Proficiency with schematic capture and design using CAD tools such as Altium Designer (preferred); experience with Allegro and/or OrCAD is a plus
• Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques
• Experience with signal and power integrity simulation and measurement
• Experience with EM and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards
• Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTspice, ADS, and/or Microwave Office
• Experience with data analysis and programming in MATLAB or Python
• Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers

ITAR Requirements:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status