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Lead Electrical Hardware Engineer – Avionics

Pittsburgh, PA💼 Full-time💰 $140,000–$140,000🗓 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Functional management of the Avionics team designing, manufacturing, and testing in-house avionics hardware for Voyager Lunar Systems.

Role type

Lead Electrical Hardware Engineer (Avionics)

Builds

Flight hardware avionics including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, filtering, data acquisition, and command & data handling (C&DH) for lunar systems.

Domain

Aerospace / Avionics / Space Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Component/LRU electrical design, Schematic and board design (Altium, Eagle, OrCAD), Team leadership and mentoring, Hardware design standards definition, Failure investigation and troubleshooting, FPGA/microcontroller programming, CAD tools, MIL-STD 461 testing knowledge, NASA-STD compliance.

Preferred skills

Spacecraft electronics systems (Class D unmanned), High-Speed Digital PCB design, VITA VPX/SpaceVPX standards (VITA 46.0, 65.0, 78.0), Range Safety and Ground Safety compliance, Mechanical CAD, Space environmental testing knowledge.

Responsibilities

Lead daily operations, scheduling, and tasking for the avionics team; Provide technical and programmatic guidance to team members and partners; Establish review processes for engineering products prior to release; Act as independent reviewer for subsystem and vehicle phase-gate design reviews; Define internal work processes and standards for hardware design and test execution; Drive rapid troubleshooting and resolution of electrical anomalies during testing and assembly.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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