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Voyager Technologies is a space, defense, and national security technology company developing mission-critical solutions for advanced aerospace and defense applications. This role is part of Voyager Lunar Systems, based in Pittsburgh, PA, and reports to the Electronic Systems Manager.
As an Electrical Hardware Engineer III - Avionics, you will own the design, manufacturing, and testing of electrical hardware and avionics components across product lines. Your responsibilities include:
- Design PCBs for spacecraft primary and secondary avionics systems
- Conduct trade studies on electronic components and select optimal options for engineering and flight avionics units
- Develop comprehensive test procedures for component, board-level, and system-level integrated testing
- Execute testing of fabricated PCBs and integrated avionics systems
- Participate in environmental testing of engineering design units and qualification testing of flight design units
- Program embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, and graphics processors
- Implement full systems engineering development cycles and report progress to the Avionics Lead
- Support hardware-in-the-loop testing with engineering and flight systems
- Write and present technical reports
This is a hybrid role based in Pittsburgh, PA. The position requires ITAR eligibility and U.S. Person status (U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3)).
**Requirements:**
Minimum Qualifications:
- B.S. in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 2+ years of experience in electronics hardware development
- Proficiency in schematic and board design using Altium, Eagle, OrCAD, or similar software
- Experience using standard electrical lab equipment (power supply, electronic load, multimeter, oscilloscope) to execute test procedures for assembled PCBs or integrated systems
- Rapid prototype development skills
- Strong debugging skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing electronic hardware including computing, signal conditioning, control electronics, filtering, data acquisition, and command & data handling (C&DH)
- Experience writing test plans and procedures for PCBA and/or integrated system bring-up, design verification, qualification, and acceptance testing
- Experience developing test scripts in Python to automate PCBA and/or integrated system test procedure execution
- Experience performing trade studies for electrical and avionics system architectures, components, and individual parts
- Experience with PCBA inspection and rework to IPC-A-610 Class 3 requirements
- Systems engineering experience for controlling requirements, risks, and integration flow
- Capability to program embedded systems, FPGAs, microcontrollers, computer processors, graphics processors, or similar
- Familiarity with NASA-STD 4001 and NASA-STD 4003 or similar standards
- Experience with digital, analog, and signal conditioning circuit design
- Experience testing to MIL-STD-461 or similar standards
