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About the role

Experienced spacecraft avionics engineer to own flight electronics across our space programmes. Strong foundation in mixed-signal and high-speed board design, radiation effects and part selection for space. Should have designed hardware that has flown, and be able to build and mentor the avionics team.

Key Responsibilities:

Spacecraft avionics design, development and qualification – all the way from architecture and schematic to flight-qualified hardware. This role will set the engineering standard for these programmes, take them from ground testing to flight, and help build the team around them.

Qualifications:

B.E./B.Tech, M.Tech or PhD in Electronics (preferred)/Electrical. Certification or course credits in space electronics, radiation effects or IPC/ECSS workmanship will be a plus.

Experience:

10–20 yrs in spacecraft avionics, with hardware that has flown.

Skills:

• Avionics architecture – on-board computer, payload processor, power electronics, telemetry and telecommand, and interfaces (CAN, SpaceWire, RS-422, LVDS, Ethernet).
• Mixed-signal, high-speed digital and power electronics board design and sign-off.
• EEE part selection (COTS vs radiation-tolerant), derating, and TID/SEE analysis and mitigation.
• Integrating high-power COTS compute (GPU/AI accelerators) – power delivery, thermal interfaces, latch-up protection and fault management.
• Harness, grounding, bonding and EMI/EMC design.
• Electronics qualification campaigns – thermal vacuum, vibration, EMI/EMC and radiation.
• Experience with image sensor electronics or space-grade FPGAs is an added advantage.

Good to have skills:

Altium / OrCAD / Cadence (PCB design), SPICE / LTspice, SI/PI analysis tools, Vivado / Libero (FPGA), C / Embedded C, Python, ECSS, MIL-STD-461/883, IPC J-STD-001 (space addendum).