Hardware Engineer

• Design, develop, and document hardware solutions for complex technical and IT system environments.
• Prepare and maintain hardware drawings, layouts, installation diagrams, rack elevations, interconnect diagrams, and other technical drafting products.
• Support the design of IT hardware systems, including servers, storage, end-user devices, network hardware, peripheral devices, and supporting infrastructure components.
• Develop hardware specifications, bills of materials, interface definitions, and installation guidance.
• Support integration of hardware components into larger system architectures, ensuring compatibility across electrical, mechanical, network, software, and operational interfaces.
• Coordinate with systems engineering, network engineering, software engineering, cybersecurity, logistics, and operations teams to support end-to-end hardware solutions.
• Participate in requirements analysis, design reviews, technical planning, and engineering trade studies.
• Support hardware assembly, configuration, installation, integration, and test activities.
• Analyze hardware-related technical issues and support troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action development.
• Ensure hardware designs and installation packages comply with applicable standards, customer requirements, and program constraints.
• Support technical baseline management, engineering change documentation, and configuration control.
• Prepare engineering documentation, status reports, and technical recommendations for leadership and customers, as required.
• Support lifecycle activities including modernization, technology refresh, deployment, maintenance, and sustainment.

Senior Hardware Engineer

• Design, develop, and test spacecraft avionics systems
• Lead the design and analysis of vehicle power systems, including power generation, energy storage, regulation, and distribution architectures.
• Perform hands-on fabrication, assembly, and testing of engineering-level hardware, including building and modifying wire harnesses, soldering components, and integrating sensor systems for rapid prototyping and troubleshooting.
• Design for the space environment, applying principles of radiation hardening (TID, SEE) to ensure system reliability.
• Perform analysis and select components to meet mission radiation requirements.
• Define and manage requirements for various sensors (e.g., IMUs, star trackers, magnetometers, pressure transducers, temperature sensors) and their corresponding electrical interfaces (e.g., analog, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422, CAN, Ethernet).
• Collaborate with mechanical and thermal engineering teams to influence vehicle layout, packaging, connector selection, and overall system design to meet avionics requirements.
• Develop schematics, manage PCB layout, and perform simulations (SPICE) for critical circuits.
• Create comprehensive test plans, procedures, and reports for hardware verification and validation at the board, box, and system levels.
• Troubleshoot complex hardware issues across integrated systems and support vehicle-level testing and launch campaigns.
• Generate and maintain electrical power budgets encompassing all power consumption and generation/storage margin management by mission phase.

Senior Avionics Hardware Engineer

• Responsible for the design and development of module and vehicle level thermal assemblies from conception through development through flight operations.
• Support internal or external development of thermal components and assemblies
• Work with multi-discipline product teams to mature module and vehicle designs
• Collaborate closely with the thermal analysis group
• Work with subsystem specifications, mission environments, and design and construction standards.
• Produce outputs including component specifications, test plans, test execution reports, and test reports.
• Analyze component and assembly thermal performance using a broad spectrum of analysis techniques from classical hand calculations to Thermal Desktop models.
• Develop short-term and long-term development plans.
• Make decisions on make or buy for thermal components.

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