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Electronic Design Lead Engineer, Deep Space OBC

Belval, Luxembourg, Bradford Space [EDLE-DSOBC]

Field(s) of expertise
Electronics Engineering Space Systems Engineering
Job type
Permanent
Education
Bachelor
Deadline
Closed

About this job

We are looking for a candidate to join our small design team to develop, test, qualify and initialise manufacture a deep-space flight and payload computational platform.

You will be an instrumental member of a small team building out a full avionics stack product. The operation is new, based in Luxembourg as a spin-off of Deep Space Industries (California) and Bradford Space (Netherlands). Our team in Luxembourg will be kept small (~10 people) and will focus on the single objective of building a reliable, performing, and mass-optimised flight avionics system for upcoming deep space smallsats and landers. You would take the responsibility for the development and qualification of an on-board computer subsystem for this stack.

The operation will aim to blend of the responsible, high-quality engineering practices of traditional aerospace engineering while implementing the rapid iterative development methods and dynamic workplace culture of a New-Space style start-up.

Responsibilities

  • Design, optimise, test and qualify a spacecraft flight computer system for deep space missions
  • Contribute to overall avionics product design and ensure subsystem interoperability
  • Develop and deploy automated test methods and equipment
  • Setup manufacturing processes and procedures
  • Deliver to manufacturing stage, a performing product
  • Manage and maintain a development workshop and tooling

Profile

Essential skills:

  • Strong background in spacecraft flight computer engineering
  • Good knowledge of embedded computational platforms & architectures
  • Practical experience with electronics design, build management, rework, and hardware testing
  • Proficient English language skills

Strongly valued:

  • Familiarity with existing spacecraft flight computer systems and typical topologies
  • Understanding of space hardware quality standards and the qualification process
  • Working knowledge commercial processors (e.g. Cortex), microcontrollers and FPGAs
  • Understanding of the space environment and its effects
  • Experience with high-datarate memory technologies, management and implementation
  • Working knowledge of encryption techniques and remote node security
  • Past work on computational hardware and software on spacecraft
  • Competent software development skills (C++, embedded C, VHDL and/or Python)
  • Build-for-test design, and hardware/software test campaign development & execution
  • Build-for-manufacture design experience and supplier management
  • Familiarity with relevant industry standards (e.g. ECSS & IPC)
  • Ability to build and rework electronics assemblies (including SMT soldering)
  • Practical experience running test campaigns (TVAC, vibration, radiation, extreme temperatures)
  • Relevant CAD experience (Altium or similar, and thermal FEA)

Duty station: Belval Luxembourg, with occasional travel needed

We would usually expect candidates to have 3-10 years’ experience in relevant fields. The role is open to candidates of any age, gender, orientation, that have or can get work authorization within the EU.

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