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Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer (Avionics)

Pittsburgh, PA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, manufacture, and test avionics hardware for spacecraft subsystems including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, and data acquisition.

Role type

Senior IC electrical hardware engineer (avionics)

Builds

Flight-ready avionics LRUs and integrated spacecraft subsystems

Domain

Aerospace / Avionics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Schematic and board design, component/LRU electrical design, systems engineering, rapid prototyping, debugging, communications protocols (RS-422/485/CAN/Ethernet/SPI/I2C/UART), digital/analog/signal conditioning design

Preferred skills

FPGA/microcontroller programming, mechanical CAD, space environmental testing, MIL-STD 461 compliance, VITA VPX/SpaceVPX standards, high-speed digital PCB design

Technologies

Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, Microsoft Project, JIRA

Responsibilities

Develop flight hardware avionics, provide technical guidance to teams and subcontractors, manage schedule/budget/design performance for subsystems, perform trade studies and verify operating modes, test fabricated PCBs and integrated systems, participate in environmental/qualification testing, deliver technical reports on test results

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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