Job Details
Job Title: Senior Director, Avionics & Electrical Engineering
Company: ExLabs
Location: Long Beach, CA
Job Type: Full-time
About ExLabs:
ExLabs is a pioneering aerospace company dedicated to advancing next-generation spacecraft platforms for space exploration and resource utilization.
Our flagship product, the Space Exploration Resource Vehicle (SERV), stands at the forefront of "big space" technology. With the largest space power system in the industry, SERV is revolutionizing commercial space. SERV also forms the core of the Arachne spacecraft, a multi-use technology platform capable of deep space exploration, object capture and control, and resource acquisition. With a focus on deep space missions, our next-generation spacecraft is poised to capture and deliver asteroid resources, enabling resource extraction for industrial and scientific research.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Director of Avionics and EE, you will have the unique opportunity to explore all areas of a product s life cycle from development through production and launch by engaging in multiple disciplines with a focus on electronic design, reliability, and manufacturing. You will be expected to design complex avionics architecture with your team, using agile aerospace methods of rapid and short design cycles and iterations. You will analyze and troubleshoot electronic assemblies, define new processes, design circuits/fixtures/tools, and identify opportunities for improvement in both products and processes. You will have the opportunity to own a wide variety of subsystem designs enabling our mission to explore worlds beyond Earth orbit.
Responsibilities:
- Hire, mentor and manage a team of superstar electrical engineers tasked with designing and manufacturing a complex, deep space system for asteroid capture missions.
- Provide extreme ownership of avionics hardware for flight across all areas of the product life cycle
- Design, manufacture, validate, qualify, and fly reliable hardware to expand vehicle capabilities
- Implement changes to electrical schematics that improve reliability and manufacturability
- Perform root cause investigations to characterize off-nominal unit behavior and mitigate risk
- Derive engineering justification to resolve production issues throughout assembly, test, and vehicle integration
- Create test setups and execute hardware validation through benchtop and environmental testing
- Perform peer reviews of team design work including requirements, analysis, schematics and PCB layout
- Mentor level 1, 2 and 3 engineers to grow and develop them
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in electrical engineering, or computer engineering
- 5+ years in progressive leadership roles
- 10+ years of experience in electronics hardware design (academic projects, internships, and professional experience all qualify)
- 5+ years of experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers) to verify hardware functionality
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Ability to operate independently in a high paced environment common for early stage startup
- Ability to make decisions fast based on limited information and readiness to correct them quickly
- Leadership in the development of highly complex and critical systems
- Demonstrated success driving new hardware designs from concept to flight
- Independently design and integrate complex circuit blocks
- Proficient in electrical schematic capture and PCB design (eCAD) software (e.g., Altium, Orcad)
- High level of proficiency with circuit simulation tools (e.g., SPICE, LTSPICE) and formal analysis methods, such as derating and worst-case circuit analysis
- Implement and validate digital communications interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, RGMII, SGMII, and RS422 on new hardware designs
- Design for Excellence (DFX), root cause, derating, and related analysis
- Hands-on experience in the troubleshooting and resolution of PCBA level defects and failures
- Proficiency writing software for test automation, data review, and design analysis, preferably in MATLAB or Python
- Self-motivated with strong multi-tasking, organizational, communication, and documentation skills
- Creative problem solver capable of working with multidiscipline project engineering functions
At ExLabs, we are passionate about pushing the boundaries of space exploration and technology development. If you have a deep passion for space and the desire to make a significant impact in the industry, we invite you to join our team at ExLabs. Together, we will shape the future of space exploration and unlock the limitless potential of the cosmos.
Benefits
We embrace healthy work-life balance, and living healthy fulfilling lives as we journey together to explore the edges of the known possible
- Best-in-class healthcare, dental, and vision
- Life insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- Employee Equity Incentive
- Paternity/maternity leave
- Sponsored exploration & learning programs
- A collaborative, inclusive, and dynamic work environment
The full-time annual salary range for this job is:
$190,000 - $240,000
ExLabs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status or any other characteristic or condition protected by Federal, state or local law.
Due to rules imposed by the US Government, ExLabs will not accept applications from citizens of designated countries or those born in a designated country unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the U.S or have other protected status under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).