Hardware Engineer

• Own our device firmware end to end (C/C++ on ESP32) — connectivity, provisioning, call behavior, and on-device audio
• Make over-the-air updates safe and boring: phased, reversible rollouts you'd trust across the whole fleet, sensible versioning (which builds reach which devices), monitoring for updates that succeed or fail, and recovery for devices that fall out of the update path
• Improve how real calls actually sound, working across the on-device audio path — echo cancellation, jitter buffer, packet-loss concealment, and codecs
• Chase down the field issues families feel — devices dropping off Wi-Fi, mesh and dual-band quirks, dropped calls — and drive them to root cause
• Instrument the fleet so we can see the kid's-eye experience: is the phone reachable, does the call connect, how does it sound, did it drop
• Set firmware direction and coordinate the firmware and hardware work, so device-side knowledge and ownership live with the team
• Partner across the hardware line — reviewing specs and supporting board bring-up so firmware and hardware decisions account for each other on current and next-gen devices

Senior Firmware 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

• Develop, lead, and own digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuit avionic designs that interact with avionics systems (including sensors and electromechanical/electrohydraulic actuators).
• Own these avionics designs, and the rugged electronic hardware assemblies across the entire product life cycle, from concept and requirements definition, design, analysis, prototyping, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification (power-on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and through release to production.
• Support avionics controller architecture trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, device selection, and controller roadmap direction.
• Support controller risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies.
• Participate in program level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements.
• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges to management.

Avionics Hardware Engineer II

• Play a critical role in the development, implementation, verification, and testing of firmware for FPGA based designs.
• Develop firmware requirements in coordination with systems engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering and subsystem owners.
• Develop FPGA design and verification utilizing hardware description languages.
• Responsible for the development of tests and the associated documentation.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Work directly with NASA and National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program.
• Develop the Lunar Transportation system that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

SLD Avionics FPGA Engineer III – Lunar Permanence

• Define, design and verify ASIC and ASIC subsystems to be deployed in a range of Cisco platforms
• Contribute to a multi-disciplined engineering team to meet the power, performance, and area goals for products
• Design, document, and develop ASIC subsystems for release in high volume and quality
• Help define the process, methods, and tools for design and implementation of complex developments
• Leads the CDC/RDC (Clock Domain Crossing / Reset Domain Crossing) methodology in silicon one chips
• Design & implement robust and reusable RTL with CDC/RDC considerations
• Spec comprehensive CDC/RDC check flows and work with CAD team to implement
• Review and approve CDC/RDC constraints and waivers
• Perform static glitch analysis
• Improve design with prevention of static glitch hazard

ASIC Engineering Technical Leader – CDC

• 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.

Senior Thermal Hardware Engineer – Lunar Permanence

• Develop and test GNC hardware components and systems for the TeraWave satellite constellation
• Develop technical specifications, interface control documents, and system architecture designs for GNC subsystems
• Analyze GNC hardware performance requirements and validate designs through simulation and testing
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including software engineers, avionics specialists, and mission planners to ensure integrated system performance
• Conduct system performance assessments, stability analysis, and develop risk mitigation strategies
• Provide hands-on support for integration and testing of flight hardware
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware non-conformances and test failures
• Support supplier technical management and evaluation of GNC hardware components
• Contribute to design reviews and documentation throughout the development lifecycle
• Develop and maintain GNC hardware test procedures and verification plans

Senior Satellite GNC Hardware Engineer

• Develop, lead, and own digital, analog, and/or mixed-signal circuit avionic designs that interact with avionics systems
• Own these avionics boards across the entire product life cycle, from concept and requirements definition, design, analysis, prototyping, schematic capture, layout, design review, test/verification (power-on, functional / acceptance / qualification testing) and through release to production
• Support avionics trade studies, analyses, performance characterization and specification, and device selection
• Support controller risk analyses, failure modes effects and criticality analyses (FMECA), worst case circuit analyses (WCCA), design for test/manufacture/cost (DFx), and root-cause analysis of test discrepancies
• Participate in program level technology development, mission assurance and safety initiatives, and avionics development process improvements
• Effectively communicate development status, risks, and challenges to management

Avionics Hardware Engineer – Lunar Permanence

• Contribute to the successful development of avionics components for Lunar Vehicles
• Work with a team of engineers to define, test, and certify avionics hardware
• Engage in hardware build, integration, and test of Engineering Development Unit (EDU) and flight hardware
• Develop product requirements, define interfaces, and support hardware build
• Implement verification and qualification strategies
• Conduct root cause analysis and develop mitigation plans for hardware failures

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