Varda Space Industries
Space Electrical Engineer, Systems
About this role
Varda seeks a Space Electrical Engineer to design, integrate, and test avionics systems for the Winnebago spacecraft, a commercial in-orbit vehicle. You'll develop electrical architecture, conduct fault analysis, oversee system verification, and support mission operations for space manufacturing and hypersonic reentry phases.
What you'll do
- Design electrical architecture, system diagrams, and power/telemetry budgets aligned with vehicle objectives
- Analyze avionics architectures for faults and risks, developing mitigation strategies and FDIR solutions
- Conduct comprehensive verification testing on flight and HITL hardware for launch and mission readiness
- Oversee avionics system integration and act as primary contact for integrated systems investigations
- Design, build, and operate Hardware-in-the-Loop testbeds to simulate spacecraft performance
- Develop ground infrastructure including test racks and support mission operations as an avionics specialist
What they're looking for
- Electrical systems design and architecture
- Avionics and spacecraft systems knowledge
- Python programming and debugging
- Test planning and validation methodology
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing
- Systems integration and verification
- Mission operations and troubleshooting
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Varda Space Industries
Varda Space Industries builds commercial spacecraft and orbital manufacturing systems for missions in low Earth orbit, including reentry capsules and satellite buses. The company is hiring mission operations engineers, software engineers (ground segment, flight, and embedded), and manufacturing engineers to develop mission-critical systems, operational infrastructure, and scalable production capabilities.
- Website
- varda.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience designing electrical architectures for complex systems—how did you manage competing constraints around power, mass, and telemetry?
- Tell us about a time you identified a critical fault in a system design. How did you develop and validate a mitigation strategy?