Galaxy Technology Hires LLC

Avionics Engineering Manager

Galaxy Technology Hires LLC  •  Torrance, CA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Avionics Engineering Manager

Torrance, CA – Relocation Assistance Provided


The Company

Our client’s mission is to expand humanity’s frontier into the solar system and beyond. The next step on this journey is to enable manufacturing and habitation in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our client’s plan to make this a reality is to build artificial gravity space stations.

The Job

Our client is looking for an Avionics Engineering Manager, reporting to the Director of Avionics Engineering, to support the development of avionics systems required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

Functions

  • Lead team to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art avionics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments.
  • Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop on-vehicle components from initial requirements to vehicle installation.
  • This role is both managerial and technical, and you will have significant input, guidance, review, and oversight on your team’s work.
  • Exemplify a culture of excellence, extreme ownership, and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.
  • Communicate with various Vast internal stakeholders to capture project design criteria from the technical system owners and translate them into verifiable avionics design requirements for your team to implement.
  • Identify project level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in electrical circuit design, analysis and testing
  • 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
  • Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes
  • Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design
  • Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software
  • Experience managing the design of technical projects
  • Experience with circuit simulation software such as LTSpice or SIMPLIS
  • Deep understanding of electrical design and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
  • Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components

Preferred Skills

  • Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage
  • Familiarity with spacecraft avionics systems and knowledge of space environment effects
  • Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs
  • Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences
  • Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multi-disciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions
  • Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data
  • Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills
  • Familiarity with NASA standards such as EEE-INST-002
  • Develop and implement engineering standards, protocols, and quality assurance processes to optimize system performance and safety
  • Conduct technical feasibility studies, simulations, and performance analyses to support project development
Galaxy Technology Hires LLC

About Galaxy Technology Hires LLC

Providing High Caliber Talent When The Mission Is Critical

Galaxy Technology Hires is an engineering and technology recruitment firm, headquartered in Houston, Texas, with a small team of highly specialized, niche Recruiters and Sourcers. We provide custom solutions to our clients with everything from name generation and sourcing, to research and organizational mapping, to full cycle recruiting. We offer retained search, contingent search, executive search, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) services.

The firm was founded in order to assist world class, game-changing and forward-thinking companies with their critical hiring needs. These are the professionals that enable cutting edge companies to achieve the impossible, and only a dedicated, multi-tier search effort will ensure landing this high caliber talent. We support various fields and industries with niche recruitment needs, but our specialization lies within engineering and technology, including entry-level to senior experience-level, as well as leadership and executive roles.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
Year Founded
2015
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