Staff Electrical Design Engineer

Job description

**Array Labs builds advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world.** We’re launching a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create a high-resolution 3D map of the Earth – updated in real time – enabling faster, smarter decision-making for government and commercial organizations supporting disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical geopolitical intelligence. We design and build our satellites end-to-end, producing the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites. Our fleet will deliver unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and responsiveness to power critical insights precisely where they’re needed most. **About the Job** As a Staff Electrical Design Engineer, you will design and validate the digital and mixed-signal electronics that support Array’s radar payloads and satellite platforms. Your work will include high-speed digital interfaces, precision clocking and timing distribution, power regulation and control circuits, system monitoring and telemetry hardware, and fault-tolerant satellite avionics. You will take hardware through design, prototyping, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, mechanical, and systems engineers. The hardware you develop will directly affect system performance, power efficiency, stability, and overall reliability on orbit. ### Responsibilities: - Develop advanced electronic platforms, from architecture to manufacturing - Work closely with software, firmware, RF, antenna, digital, and mechanical design engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art spacecraft electronics - Create requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, design complex electronic assemblies and manage manufacturing - Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, manufacturing, and test campaigns - Rapidly iterate on and improve electronic designs based on laboratory, environmental and on-orbit testing - Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk reduction planning, and mentorship of early-career engineers ### Basic Qualifications: - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 7-14 years of relevant experience - Experience in electronics design, bring-up, and test - Excellent teamwork and communication skills - Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner - High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints ### Preferred Skills and Experience: - Master’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field - Hands-on experience with full-life cycle hardware development (concept to production) in consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics - Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, fabrication considerations, layout constraints, component selection, and measurement - Background in electromagnetic theory and RF fundamentals such as S-parameters, transmission lines, and broadband impedance matching - Hands-on experience designing high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches) - Proficiency with schematic capture and design using CAD tools such as Altium Designer (preferred); experience with Allegro and/or OrCAD is a plus - Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques - Experience with signal and power integrity simulation and measurement - Experience with EM and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards - Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTspice, ADS, and/or Microwave Office - Experience with data analysis and programming in MATLAB or Python - Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers