Spacecraft Avionics Lead; consider senior levels; Electrical Engineer, Senior

Summary

Redwire is accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical and sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

Redwire specializes in the development and delivery of spacecraft, aerospace structures, mechanisms, and thermal control solutions. The business unit performs design, analysis, testing, and fabrication of advanced technologies through the complete concept-to-flight development cycle.

Redwire Space Missions has an exciting opportunity for a Spacecraft Avionics Engineering Lead
(all senior levels) atour Littleton, CO facility. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the technical leadership, architecture, and execution of spacecraft command & data handling (C&DH) subsystem elements. This role serves as the Responsible Engineer for C&DH subsystem elements, ensuring robust architecture, reliable onboard processing, deterministic data flow, and secure command and telemetry interfaces. You will work cross-functionally to ensure integrated subsystem performance from concept development through on-orbit operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer and technical lead for spacecraft avionics/C&DH across one or more programs.
• Conduct technical trade studies and define C&DH architecture, including flight computers, data buses, data storage, time distribution, redundancy schemes, and interface definitions.
• Develop subsystem and unit-level requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), and support verification plans aligned to system-level requirements.
• Support avionics hardware and software integration and test activities.
• Oversee selection, qualification, and acceptance of spacecraft avionics hardware.
• Support anomaly resolution during environmental testing and integrated test campaigns.
• Participate in and support design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, Launch Readiness).
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to Electrical Engineering best practices across programs.

Ideal Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in spacecraft avionics or embedded systems development.
• Experience with C&DH subsystem development for space platforms.
• Experience developing specifications, ICDs, and other engineering artifacts for flight hardware.
• Experience analyzing data throughput, latency, timing and synchronization.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance

Desired Skills

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years supporting government or commercial space programs.
• Experience serving as a Responsible Engineer or in a technical lead role.
• Expert understanding of flight computers, data buses, time synchronization, and secure data flow.
• Experience with radiation-tolerant electronics and component selection for space environments.
• Experience developing modular C&DH architectures across multiple missions and platforms.
• Expertise in spacecraft communication protocol functionality and implementation (e.g., Space Wire, RS-422/485, CAN, Ethernet).
• Experience with the OpenVPX architectural framework and VITA standards.
• Expert understanding of microcontroller, microprocessor, FPGA, and GPU types, architectures, tradeoffs, and use-cases.
• Advanced knowledge of memory and storage technologies and solutions (e.g., DDRx, MRAM, NOR, NAND).
• Advanced knowledge of networking (routing and switching) and encryption architectures and solutions.
• Experience architecting, trading, and implementing mission payload processing solutions for various mission applications and orbital regimes.
• Hand-on experience with avionics unit and subsystem-level integration and test.
• Active U.S. security clearance Active DoD security clearance.
• Ability to travel – 25% travel may be required.

Salary Range

$110,000 - $205,000/ year

Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

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