Salary
💰 $75,000 - $95,000 per year
About the role
- Execute engineering projects and deliver them on time and budget
- Learn from other engineers to facilitate personal training and professional growth
- 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
- 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
- Summarize data and report on test results
- Support a technology demonstration mission with NASA JPL/Goddard to demonstrate a quantum gravity gradient sensor on a dedicated satellite
- Develop high performance, low noise, radiation tolerant and robust circuits for deployed quantum systems and sensors in space, terrestrial, and lab-based environments
- 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
- Functional knowledge of schematic capture and layout software, e.g. OrCAD, Altium, PADS, etc.
- Demonstrated capability to employ and/or learn 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 an expected part of successful job performance
- This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including EAR and ITAR; any offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license
- Working knowledge of control systems and signal processing (preferred)
- Experience in circuit simulation using SPICE software (preferred)
- Experience with high and ultra-high vacuum system environments (preferred)
- Experience with Contract Electronic Manufacturing (preferred)
- Experience with power electronics including DC-DC converters, filters, and high power (<1kW) amplifiers (preferred)
- Able to sit, stand, bend, lift and carry up to 40 pounds without assistance