Lead Electrical Engineer
Acuity
Senior Electrical Engineer – Analog and Mixed-Signal, Quantum in Space
Infleqtion
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado
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💰 $120,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Manage engineering projects and deliver them on time
- Develop analog circuits, including design, schematic capture, PCB layout, prototyping build, test, validation, and troubleshooting
- Design, model, and simulate analog circuits and validate circuit performance through bench testing
- Preferred focus on low noise and low drift circuit design
- Design control loops in the analog and digital domains
- Collaborate with engineers, physicists, and technicians to troubleshoot, debug, and rework existing circuit boards in use
- Perform quality and performance analysis on new and legacy electrical systems
- Work with other engineering disciplines on electrical, mechanical, and thermal interface requirements and design
- Manage and mentor peers and more junior team members to ensure project success
- Summarize data and report on test results
- Provide estimates of resources needed to deliver successful projects on schedule and budget
- Communicate with key stakeholders on progress, barriers, and status
- Support a technology demonstration mission with NASA JPL/Goddard to demonstrate a quantum gravity gradient sensor on a dedicated satellite
- Participate in development, integration, test, and qualification of custom circuits and control system subsystems for space, terrestrial, and lab-based quantum systems
- Other duties or projects as assigned to ensure mission success
- Up to 10% local travel may be required
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
- At least four years of experience in low noise analog circuit designs and analog to digital mixed-signal designs
- Working knowledge of OrCAD, Altium, PADS, etc.
- Experience in circuit simulation using SPICE software
- A good understanding of circuit noise analysis and analog circuit analysis, as well as signal-integrity, power integrity and EMI/EMC requirements
- Experience with component derating and PCB-level thermal mitigation
- Ability to work safely with high voltage and/or high current circuits and test equipment
- Proficient in MS Office
- Good verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively share information with technical and non-technical staff
- Good collaboration skills, able to work in a team environment where engagement and participation are expected
- Position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations (EAR and ITAR); any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software/technology without sponsorship for an export license
- Preferred: Experience with space-deployed systems and the associated challenging vibration, thermal, and radiation environment
- Preferred: Experience in power electronics or RF
- Preferred: Working knowledge of control systems and signal processing
- Preferred: Experience with high and ultra-high vacuum system environments
- Preferred: Experience with Contract Electronic Manufacturing
- Preferred: Experience mentoring and managing more junior engineers
- Preferred: Experience with power electronics including DC-DC converters, filters, and high power (<1kW) amplifiers
- Able to sit, stand, bend, lift and carry up to 40 pounds without assistance
- Able to efficiently use automated office equipment and engage in communications via phone, computer, or in-person
- Any required Personal Protective Equipment will be provided and must be properly used in accordance with company requirements
