Electronics Engineer

2 weeks ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Dawn Aerospace Full time

Dawn Aerospace's Space Propulsion Electronics team is seeking a highly skilled Electronics Engineer to join their dynamic and motivated team. This is an exciting opportunity for you to design and develop world-leading satellite propulsion technology and bring your ideas from concept to orbit.

In this role you will take the lead of projects from the design and qualification of space hardware to the development of serial production infrastructure. With a focus on reliability, you will also be responsible for supporting the development of our space environment testing and qualification processes.

**Requirements**:
**To be successful in this role, you must have**:

- A Bachelors degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability.
- An exceptional understanding of circuit theory and electronics fundamentals.
- Knowledge of component selection and reliable implementation of semi-conductor devices including Si/GaN MOSFETs and diodes.
- Good experience with PCB design and proficiency in EDA software such as Altium, Cadence, or KiCad.
- Familiarity with circuit simulation tools.
- Experience with FMEA reliability assessments and testing to regulatory standards.
- Evidence of ability to troubleshoot, and debug electronic hardware.
- Strong oral and written communication skills (English).

**Desired Qualifications/Experience**:

- Hold a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Show familiarity with radiation tolerant design and radiation testing.
- Have experience designing and testing electronics to ECSS or NASA specifications.
- Be familiar with DO-254 and DO-160 standards.
- Have proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C, C++ and Git.
- Experience developing hardware in the loop systems.
- Have experience with Highly Accelerated Lifetime Testing

**About Dawn Aerospace**:
We are a purpose-driven company focused on delivering real solutions to current problems while building in the key ingredients of long-term success - reusability and sustainability. Our long-term vision shapes how we act, build teams, and treat each other. With the long term always in mind, we make decisions that benefit us all.

We are developing vehicles to provide responsive, reusable, and low-cost space flight. The current single/low-use rockets for small satellite launches are expensive and infrequently available, and we believe that our vehicles will fundamentally change that.

As a leading provider of green propulsion systems for CubeSat, ESPA, and ESPA Grande-class satellites, we possess space-heritage and an understanding of how to achieve challenging engineering - one step at a time.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with Dawn is decided based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any other manner.

Dawn Aerospace is an Accredited Employer with Immigration New Zealand.

Important If you think you have what it takes but are unsure that you check every box, we still want to hear from you.

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