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Salary: USD 110,000 - 150,000 / annual
Overview Energy is building a new layer of clean energy infrastructure: satellites in geosynchronous orbit that redirect solar energy to terrestrial solar projects via passively safe near-infrared light. The company is in the earliest phase, with every circuit board and harness designed, built, and tested end-to-end by a small, dedicated team. Headquartered in Northern Virginia and backed by world-class investors, Overview Energy is advancing next-generation clean energy technology.
You will design, build, and test the electronics behind flight and ground hardware, reporting directly to the lead electrical engineer and working daily with mechanical, embedded software, and systems engineers. This is a generalist role: one week you're capturing schematics and bringing up new boards on the bench; the next, you're managing suppliers and verifying deliverables against specifications. The role is suited for someone a few years into their career who has already put real hardware on a bench and wants significantly broader system ownership than large primes typically offer.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and capture schematics for analog, digital, and power boards (sensors, data acquisition, power delivery, interfaces)
- Select components, build BOMs, and manage boards through fabrication and assembly
- Bring up new PCBs using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and bench supplies; debug and characterize against requirements
- Support systems engineering on requirements, architecture, and interfaces
- Design and document wire harnesses and interconnects (wire gauge, connectors, pinouts, ICDs)
- Manage electronics suppliers and contractors: review statements of work, track deliverables, verify against spec
- Run power budgets and first-pass thermal and EMI checks, applying derating and space-environment practices
- Write test procedures and scripts that automate measurements and data analysis
- Drive hardware anomalies to root cause and close out corrective actions
- Write complete design reports, ICDs, and test procedures for knowledge transfer
The role is onsite daily at the Ashburn, Virginia facility.
REQUIREMENTS:
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related field
- 2–5+ years of hands-on electrical hardware experience (internships, co-ops, and substantial hardware programs such as CubeSat, Formula SAE, solar car, hybrid/EV, rocketry, or UAV teams count)
- At least one piece of hardware you designed, built, or tested end-to-end and can walk through on a whiteboard
- Solid fundamentals in analog and digital circuits, plus embedded experience with microcontrollers and common communication buses
- Schematic capture experience in Altium, KiCad (preferred), or similar tool
- Comfort on the bench with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and power supplies
- Some experience working with an external supplier or contractor
- Ability to work onsite at Northern Virginia facility
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status (ITAR requirement)
STRONG PREFERENCES:
- Hardware that has flown, or full program cycle in space, aerospace, UAV, or high-reliability field
- Exposure to environmental testing (vibration, shock, thermal vacuum)
- Familiarity with circuit design in LTspice or related simulation platforms (SIMetrix/SIMPLIS, PLECS, Qspice)
- Power electronics or battery system experience
- Wire harness design and fabrication
- Range across mechanical, electrical, and embedded work
