Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Contingent

Responsibilities

• Develop and own hardware solutions to support Kepler’s space technology that requires the utilization of leading technology and practices.
• Heavily support design reviews for all active designs to minimize design gaps and drive learnings for younger engineers.
• Supporting pathfinding development for future satellite generations that will utilize new technology and interfaces including UFS, 10G+ Ethernet, PCIe 5.0, various other high-speed interfaces, new memory technology, and processors.
• Conduct and document engineering analysis including derating, reliability, radiation, EMI/EMC, FMECA, and power budgets.
• Contribute to best practices and development of internal standards.
• Maintain thorough technical documentation that captures design decisions, design specifications, block diagrams, interface requirements, and system architecture reports.
• Work closely with other cross-functional engineering teams including RF, mechanical, software, and FPGA to develop full product solutions.
• Driving knowledge-sharing activities to build up the technical knowledge of more junior engineers.

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of hardware design experience (schematic and layout), including a strong background of:
• Leading development of multi-board systems and handling electrical interface planning and definition.
• Performing schematic design and layout of processors, FPGAs, SoCs, DAC/ADCs or other high speed digital components.
• Familiarity with various memory types and interfaces including QSPI, UFS, DDR3/4, eMMC.
• Design and routing for high-speed interfaces including JESD
  204B, 10G Ethernet, etc.
• Clock generation, PLLs, jitter cleaning, clock distribution, and general concepts around timing stability and coherency.
• Experience working in a rapid learning / agile environment that drives early learnings when requirements are not locked down or when attribute development is needed.
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to leverage AI-assisted engineering and development tools to improve productivity, design quality, and innovation while adapting to evolving technologies and best practices.
• Experience leading a project from the architecture stage to the design validation stage.
• Comfortable in a lab environment and experience using standard tools such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, VNA’s, etc.
• Strong communication skills and ability to put together thorough design documentation.