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K2 Space Corporation · 1 month ago

Senior Electrical Engineer, High Speed Mixed Signal

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $200K/yr

5+ years exp

K2 Space Corporation is building large, high-powered spacecraft for the next generation of space development. The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead the design and development of high speed mixed signal electronics for powerful satellites, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to prototype and refine systems for space deployment.

AerospaceMachinery ManufacturingManufacturingSpace Travel

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design and develop mixed signal and high speed digital hardware, including architecture definition, component selection, schematic capture, PCB (printed circuit board) layout, bringup, and documentation

Complete ownership of the successful operation of high speed mixed signal electronics to be used on spacecraft RF systems

Qualify your designs through environmental testing including vibration, shock, thermal, thermal vacuum, and radiation testing

Support your product through production and spaceflight

Collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to integrate your designs into the spacecraft system

Act as technical leader and subject-matter expert helping to teach, grow, and mentor others in the team

Qualification

Mixed signal PCB designSDR hardware developmentMixed signal performance characterizationAltium PCB designRF digital communicationsPythonRustC/C++Communication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or related science, technology, engineering, or mathematics field

5+ years of experience with full cycle development of mixed signal PCBAs for RF applications using microprocessors, FPGAs, multi-GHz SerDes (JESD204), DRAM (DDR4), Ethernet, SPI, ADCs, operational amplifiers, and power supplies

5+ years of full design lifecycle experience with SDR hardware development, including high speed RF data converters (digital to analog and analog to digital converters), clock trees, and data converter interfaces

5+ years of experience with mixed signal performance characterization, validation, and debugging (error vector magnitude EVM testing, spur analysis, electromagnetic interference and compliance EMI/EMC)

Experience with multilayer PCB design in Altium or similar PCB design tools

Ability to work in a fast-paced and high velocity start-up atmosphere