Hardware Design Engineer (Full-Time)
We are seeking design engineers to work in a supportive and collaborative team to create best-in-class spacecraft hardware. The ideal candidate is an engineer who has a passion for space exploration, thrives in an interdisciplinary environment, and has the determination to create successful, reliable hardware.
Additional desired qualities include:
- Experience with engineering design, including modeling, building, testing, analysis, documentation, and delivery.
- Eagerness to learn and teach to communicate complex technical concepts and share knowledge with others.
- Strong background in mathematics, engineering, and the natural sciences.
- Hands-on experiences with building hardware in a project, laboratory, or workplace setting.
- Literacy in at least one computer programming language.
In addition, individual job requirements will be tailored to both your background and our current needs. The following are examples of common job responsibilities at Stellar Exploration, although experience is not necessarily required in any of the following:
- Mechanical engineering: designing jigs and assemblies, CAD drafting and review, FEA simulations, developing hardware integration procedures, and cleaning, assembling, and welding hardware.
- Electrical engineering: Component selection and PCB design, circuit debugging and rework, power electronics & RF system design, and FPGA hardware programming.
- Aerospace & systems engineering: system design and optimization, program lifecycle management, clean room assembly, managing and conducting hotfire test campaigns.
- Software engineering: embedded systems design and systems programming, developing real-time software and hardware testing libraries, time-series data analysis, and supporting company-wide automation.