Staff Electrical Engineer

As a Staff Electrical Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for driving avionics architecture decisions and owning the design, development, and delivery of flight-critical electronic assemblies for True Anomaly's spacecraft. You will shape how our avionics systems are defined, integrated, and proven — bridging board-level design with system-level thinking to deliver hardware that meets the demands of space.

• Lead avionics architecture definition and trade studies, driving decisions on processing, data transport, power distribution, and redundancy that shape the spacecraft electrical system

• Own the end-to-end design of complex electronic assemblies — from requirements capture, schematic design, and component selection through prototyping, bring-up, debugging, and release to production

• Collaborate with system architecture development across cross-functional teams including software, GNC, propulsion, and systems engineering

• Lead preliminary and critical design reviews for avionics subsystems, ensuring designs meet program requirements and spacecraft-level performance goals

• Conduct and review derating analysis and worst-case circuit analysis for flight hardware

• Define and drive interface control between avionics boards and other spacecraft subsystems, including power, RF, payloads, and harness

• Perform system-level integration of avionics hardware and software, including embedded firmware interfaces and communication buses

• Perform first article testing, unit-level testing, and production testing of avionics assemblies

• Support hardware through production, integration, launch, and on-orbit commissioning

• Define validation approaches and create development and qualification testing campaigns to exercise designs to their limits and ensure reliable hardware

• Drive compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and quality assurance processes across the avionics subsystem

• Develop and maintain documentation for avionics systems and components, including design specifications, interface control documents, test plans, and operating procedures

• Mentor junior engineers to improve design skill sets and increase capabilities within the organization

• Continuously improve electrical engineering processes and practices to drive innovation and efficiency

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• Demonstrated spacecraft flight heritage — experience designing, building, and delivering electronic hardware that has operated on orbit

• Experience with embedded firmware development and hardware/firmware co-design

• Advanced experience in PCB and PCBA design using Altium Designer or equivalent ECAD tools

• Experience with system-level avionics architecture, including processing, power distribution, data interfaces, and redundancy schemes

• Strong understanding of common spacecraft communication interfaces (RS-422/RS-485, SPI, I2C, SpaceWire, Ethernet)

• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical efforts and drive them to completion

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

• Familiarity with spacecraft power systems, propulsion interfaces, and communication subsystems

• Experience with radiation-tolerant design practices and mitigation of radiation effects on COTS components

• Knowledge of industry standards and regulations related to spacecraft electrical systems, including EEE-INST-002, GSFC-STD-7000 (GEVS), and MIL-STD-461

• Experience with simulation tools such as SPICE, MATLAB, and Simulink

• Experience with worst-case circuit analysis and derating analysis for space-grade hardware

• Familiarity with configuration management and requirements traceability tools

• Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment or a similarly dynamic setting

• Work Location —this role will be onsite at either our Centennial, CO or Long Beach, CA locations, with travel to other sites as needed.