Varda Space Industries
Space Systems Engineer, Electrical
About this role
Varda seeks an Electrical Space Systems Engineer to design, integrate, and test avionics systems for orbital manufacturing vehicles. You'll oversee electrical architecture, fault analysis, verification testing, and ground infrastructure while collaborating across teams to deliver flight-ready systems for space and reentry operations.
What you'll do
- Design electrical architecture, system diagrams, and budgets for power, telemetry, and mass predictions
- Perform fault analysis and risk mitigation, developing FDIR strategies and operational workarounds
- Conduct comprehensive verification testing on flight and HITL avionics hardware
- Oversee avionics system integration and serve as primary contact for integrated systems investigations
- Design, build, and operate Hardware-In-The-Loop testbeds to simulate spacecraft systems
- Develop avionics ground infrastructure, test racks, and contribute to automation best practices
What they're looking for
- Electrical systems design and architecture
- Avionics systems integration and verification
- Python programming and debugging
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)
- Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) testbed design
- Test planning and validation
- Power budgeting and telemetry analysis
- Spacecraft systems knowledge
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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
- Walk us through a complex avionics architecture you designed—what were the key trade-offs between power, mass, and reliability?
- Describe your experience with FDIR strategies. How did you approach a situation where a hardware solution wasn't feasible?