Electrical Engineer; BT

Bastion Technologies, Inc.

Department: PXGEO - Sanmina Facility, Houston, TX

Employment Type: Full Time

The Electrical Engineer will support the space program located in Houston, TX
. This is a vendor surveillance type project. PXGEO will be inspecting and repairing OBN (Ocean Bottom Nodes) at Sanmina facility.

• Engineer will be provided with repair and test scope.
• Engineer will ensures OEM is repairing and testing according to agreed scope and provide daily update based on certain PXGEO reporting format.
• Work directly with Project Team Lead and associated Electrical Engineers on a given project.
• Support new designs from conception, analysis, reliability, fabrication, integration, and test.
• Provide design support and guidance in various aspects of electrical/electronic systems development.
• Be familiar with NASA and DoD specifications for electronics component design and development.
• Prepare product reliability plans, establish requirements for and monitor reliability programs.
• Perform or review reliability analyses.
• Assess performance with respect to requirements.
• Evaluate effectiveness of the failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action implementation
• Prepare reports.
• Establish reliability models and utilize models for systems and subsystems analysis.
• Develop component test stand architectures for various components.
• Design and generate electrical components 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.
• 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 eCAD designers to develop printed circuit board designs.
• Other duties as assigned.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in the field of engineering.
• Must have 7+ years of recent and related work 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.
• Digital, analog, or RF design and analysis, including analyses such as Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Worst Case Analysis (WCA), Electronic Parts Stress Analysis (PSA), Single-Events Effects Analysis (SEEA)
• Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as PSpice, LTSpice, and/or Altium Designer, and version control software such as Subversion (SVN).
• Use of computer aided engineering tools, including Math Works/MATLAB, etc.
• 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 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.).
• 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.

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