Job Description

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

Firefly Senior Avionics Electrical Engineers will leverage their applicable experience and expertise to develop electrical components for our launch vehicles and spacecraft systems. In this role, you will be responsible for developing the designs, defining requirements, and actively participating in integration, testing and qualification activities throughout the hardware development cycle. You will be part of the avionics team and will work closely with a variety of teams across the company in a fast paced, exciting environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop new features and functionality as part of the design team for our common avionics platform used across launch vehicles and spacecraft applications.
• Participate in technical trade studies, requirement capture, conceptual and detail design activities for new and existing designs.
• Create and own schematic capture and PCB layout activities, rapid prototyping, EEE component selection, and execute electrical simulations and analyses to support flight, qualification, and test lab PCB assemblies
• Work with experts across teams and departments (systems, mechanical, software, test engineering) to develop tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
• Understand and implement aerospace guidelines for development and design of electronic assemblies.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in electrical engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of PCB design, hardware systems design, and/or integration experience

• Skilled in schematic capture and digital, analog, and power circuit PCB layout.
• Competent at end-to-end definition, requirement generation, block-diagram design, component selection and circuit simulations.
• Strong electrical troubleshooting experience with the ability to drive problems to root-cause and closure

• Experienced with the usage of test equipment to verify component and circuit function
• Excellent organizational skills, and experience working with vendors
• Ability to work well with others, be proactive, and execute with minimal guidance

Desired

• Experience developing and testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software.
• Experience with spacecraft avionics systems design, development, production, test, and operations
• Experience using Altium (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards.
• Experience in the V-model design methodology
• Understanding of design for space radiation environments and its effects on electronic components.
• Experience working with a variety of sensor types and their associated analog and digital interfaces
• Familiar with NASA GEVS or SMC-016 environmental testing

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

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.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.