Electronics Design Engineer - Space Exploration Electronic Systems

Onsite in Houston, TX

• Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
• Work directly with or as a Team Lead and associated Electrical Engineers on a given project.
• Support new designs from conception, analysis, and manufacturing, through to operational test and deployment.
• Provide design support and guidance in various aspects of Electronics System Development.
• Be familiar with NASA specifications for Electronics Component development.
• Develop component test stand architectures for various components.
• Design and generate electrical component and lab instrumentation test system designs.
• Develop and or modify LabVIEW code for various test systems.
• Develop detailed test verification procedures.
• Work with electrical and mechanical technicians to build and test designed systems.
• Develop and test various breakout boxes and digital/analog sensor emulation systems.
• Perform electrical evaluation/selection of instrumentation (pressure transducers, flow meters, pumps, fans, RTDs, Thermocouples, etc.).
• Troubleshoot and repair existing test systems.
• Conduct analog and digital printed circuit board design for various application needs.
• Develop test software modules to perform specific tests.
• Work with an eCAD designer to develop printed circuit board designs.
• Work in a laboratory environment, following standard operating procedures.
• Perform other duties as required and assigned.

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and normally possess 5-10 years of related experience.
• Prior experience with Power Supply Design, Power supply soft start circuit design, and switching regulators
• Prior experience with power supply remote senses, power distribution for PCB layout, Power Supply Phase Impedance measurements, and Power Supply efficiency calculation.
• Prior experience in test of power supply and conditioning systems.
• Prior experience with bonding and grounding
• Prior experience with circuit design of analog PCB, digital PCB, and power PCB.
• Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as Altium Designer, and version control software like Subversion (SVN).
• Prior experience with data acquisition systems (especially National Instruments) and LabVIEW code development
• Hands on experience in the design, build, and test of embedded systems
• Prior experience with circuit simulation tools such as Pspice, OrCAD, Multisim etc.
• Experience with hardware and VHDL-based development for Space applications
• Knowledge with Linux application/embedded code development.
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and programming in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience in the hardware design of embedded systems (microcontrollers, FPGAs, sensor interfaces, I2C/SPI buses, UARTS, etc.)
• Prior experience with Generators, electronic load banks/power banks, power supplies, power analyzers
• Prior experience with JSC standards and processes
• Familiarity with data interface protocols and associated hardware such as Ethernet, RS232, RS422, RS485, I2C, SPI etc.
• Prior experience with design and testing cable harnesses, design and testing of analog instrumentation systems, design and testing of stepper and brushless DC-DC control circuits, and design and testing of power supply and conditioning systems.
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers
• Prior experience in design and test of analog instrumentation systems
• Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition, system modeling and simulation; circuit analysis; PCB design, fabrication, and assembly; harness design and fabrication; requirements verification)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA space-flight hardware.
• Proficient in MS Office programs, particularly MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, One Note, One Drive and Outlook
• Excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team environment.