CareerPlan

Electrical Hardware Engineer I

Pittsburgh, PAFull-time2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design, manufacture, and test electrical hardware and avionics components for spacecraft and lunar systems.

Role type

Electrical Hardware Engineer I (Avionics)

Builds

Primary and secondary avionics systems for Voyager Lunar Systems

Domain

Aerospace / Space Systems / Avionics

Required skills

PCB design, schematic design, embedded systems programming, FPGA programming, microcontroller programming, test procedure development, trade studies, environmental testing, qualification testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing, Python scripting, PCBA inspection

Preferred skills

Signal conditioning, control electronics, data acquisition, command & data handling (C&DH), systems engineering, MIL-STD-461 testing, NASA-STD 4001/4003 familiarity, digital/analog circuit design

Technologies

Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, Python, FPGAs, microcontrollers, embedded systems

Responsibilities

Design PCBs for spacecraft avionics, perform trade studies on electronic components, develop test procedures for component and system-level testing, test fabricated PCBs and integrated avionics systems, participate in environmental and qualification tests, program embedded systems and processors, implement systems engineering development cycle, support hardware-in-the-loop testing, write and present technical reports

Seniority

Junior (0-2 years experience)