Electronics Design Engineer - Space Exploration Electronic Systems – Space Systems

Description

• Serve as the VIPER/Lander Power Quality Test Lead (Test objectives and TPS development, and Testbed Dry-run execution).
• Conduct analog and digital printed circuit board design for various application needs.
• Work directly with or as a Team Lead and associated Electrical Engineers on a given project.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for VIPER’s electrical power subsystem.
• Document test configurations and analyze results to support anomaly resolution and system improvements.
• Work with eCAD designer to develop printed circuit board designs.
• Perform electrical evaluation/selection of instrumentation (pressure transducers, flow meters, pumps, fans, RTDs, Thermocouples, etc.).
• Work with electrical and mechanical technicians to build and test designed systems.
• Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
• Troubleshoot and repair existing test systems.
• Develop component test stand architectures for various components.
• Develop and maintain power budgets, load analyses, and fault-response logic.
• Support new designs from conception, analysis, and manufacturing, through to operational test and deployment.
• Develop and or modify LabVIEW code for various test systems.
• Develop test software modules to perform specific tests.
• Provide design support and guidance in various aspects of Electronics System Development.
• Serve as VIPER Testbed Lab Manager (Monthly ESD Checks, Weekly Cleanliness Assay, Calibrated Equipment Management, and Testbed Enclosure Upgrade Design and Implementation to support evolving test requirement).
• Develop detailed test verification procedures.
• Design and generate electrical component and lab instrumentation test system designs.
• Work in a laboratory environment, following standard operating procedures.
• Provide VIPER Mission Operations Support (updates to Power Console handbook, Ground Alarm Limit, and tools), including monitoring of live telemetry and subsystem performance.
• Provide VIPER Mission Operations Console Operations (Post-landing Simulation, Planning Simulation, Driving & Safe Haven Simulation, and Permanently Shadowed Region Operations Simulation).
• Develop and test various breakout boxes and digital/analog sensor emulation systems.

Requirements

• Proof of U.S. Citizenship or US Permanent Residency is a requirement for this position.
• BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and five (5) years of related engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and four (4) years of related engineering experience, or Ph.D. from an accredited engineering school and zero (0) years of related experience.
• Prior experience with Power Quality.
• Familiarity with rover or robotic vehicle operations in lunar or analog environments.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
• Conduct System Testing: MGRU4 Long Duration and Battery Low State-of-Charge Driving test, Long Term Storage 6-month Vehicle Power-on Checkout Test, VIPER Powered-on Sustaining Test, and VIPER Flight SW Update and Powered-on Sustaining Test.
• Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition, system modeling and simulation; circuit analysis; PCB design, fabrication, and assembly; harness design and fabrication; requirements verification).
• Prior experience in test of power supply and conditioning systems.
• Prior experience with circuit design of analog PCB, digital PCB, and power PCB.
• Prior experience with power supply remote senses, power distribution for PCB layout, Power Supply Phase Impedance measurements, and Power Supply efficiency calculation.
• Be familiar with NASA specifications for Electronics Component development.
• A BS Engineering degree from an accredited engineering school and a minimum of five (5) years of related experience.
• Proficient in MS Office programs, particularly MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, OneNote, OneDrive and Outlook.
• Prior experience with JSC standards and processes.
• Prior experience in design and test of analog instrumentation systems.
• Hands on experience in the design, build, and test of embedded systems.
• Prior experience with design and testing cable harnesses, design and testing of analog instrumentation systems. Design and testing of stepper and brushless DC-DC control circuits, and design and testing of power supply and conditioning systems.
• Prior experience with Verification closure (Level 2 and Level 3 requirements / 8070 Standard Compliance).
• Experience with hardware and VHDL-based development for Space applications.
• Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers.
• Prior experience conducting data analysis using National Instruments DIAdem, including data visualization, scripting, and automated reporting for engineering and test datasets.
• Prior experience with power system stability analysis.
• Background in Systems Engineering.
• Prior experience with SPICE Simulation.
• Prior expertise working with solar arrays, batteries, converters, fault protection, and distribution architectures.
• Experience in the hardware design of embedded systems (microcontrollers, FPGAs, sensor interfaces, I2C/SPI buses, UARTS, etc.).
• Prior experience with circuit simulation tools such as OrCAD, Multisim etc.
• Prior experience with microcontroller circuitry design and associated embedded software development environments.
• Familiarity with data interface protocols and associated hardware such as Ethernet, RS232, RS422, RS485, I2C, SPI etc.
• Prior experience with Power Supply Design, Power supply soft start circuit design, and switching regulators.
• Prior experience with bonding and grounding.
• Prior experience with data acquisition systems (especially National Instruments) and LabVIEW code development.
• Prior experience supporting NASA flight or surface mission operations.
• Prior experience with telemetry interpretation and real-time monitoring.
• Prior experience with FPGA circuitry design and coding in associated VHDL development environments (Xilinx FPGAusing VIVADO tool).
• Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as Altium Designer, and version control software like Subversion (SVN).
• Prior experience conducting Power System Analysis for mission operations /planning and requirement close-out using Simscape (Electrical) to model and run simulations.
• Knowledge with Linux application/embedded code development.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading subsystem troubleshooting efforts.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or Excel-based telemetry analysis tools.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA space-flight hardware.
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and programming in C/C++.
• Must be able to complete a U.S. government background investigation.

Benefits

• International travel may be required. Straight time overtime, 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off), and/or 1 day of telework per week may be available**.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance