Job Information
Albedo Manager Of Avionics & Electronics in Broomfield, Colorado
What You'll Do:
- Define and support Albedo's satellite bus and avionics architecture
- Provide technical leadership across the organization, manage related risk and change across the program, drive new technology introduction, and provide mentoring
- Own avionics and electrical architecture trades, product requirements, budget, schedule, OKR's, KPI's, and technical roadmapfor avionics designs
- Develop and/or review electronic designs encompassing flight computers, power systems, guidance & navigation, sensors & actuators, and radio communications.
- Make early hardware prototypes to prove approaches and pay down risk, as required
- Collaborate with HW and SW team members to bring up brand-new spacecraft systems, including FPGAs and microcontrollers
- Supervise and guide external engineering resources and vendors
Your Ideal Skills and Experience:
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in electrical engineering, computer science, or related field and 2+ years experience as an avionics or electrical engineering manager, staff engineer, or team lead in a small team environment with prior or concurrent IC experience in EE design
- Strong IC experience in two or more of these HW areas: Digital/microcontroller design, analog design, power, and driver electronics, sensing and measurement.
- Familiarity with microcontroller I/O and communication buses (UART/SPI/I2C/CAN/Ethernet), microcontrollers and processors, FPGAs, high-speed memory, advanced digital interface buses, multiple networking architectures, and point of load converters
- Integration and control of third-party HW devices
- Collaborated with SW engineers to develop intelligent HW+SW designs and products
- Developed designs for extreme-environment (e.g. vibration, thermal, vacuum, ESD), and solid working knowledge of EMI/EMC underlying physics and specifications, along with best practices for design, and strategies for addressing test exceedances
- Process and test automation using scripting languages and software infrastructure, data review, and design analysis, preferably in MATLAB or Python
- Expertise in embedded firmware development in C/C++
- High level of proficiency with lab equipment for development testing of circuits and components, including sophisticated test definition, troubleshooting, data collection, and data reduction techniques
- Proficient at board-level rework in support of development testing
- Experience producing high-rate designs that are optimized for manufacturability and cost