Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Avionics Systems Engineer
About this role
Varda seeks an Avionics Systems Engineer to design, integrate, and test avionics systems for its Winnebago spacecraft. You'll oversee electrical architecture, fault analysis, verification testing, and ground infrastructure while collaborating across teams to deliver mission-ready vehicles for orbital manufacturing and reentry operations.
What you'll do
- Design electrical architecture, system diagrams, and budgets for power, telemetry, and mass allocation
- Perform fault analysis and develop mitigation plans including FDIR strategies for avionics systems
- Conduct verification and validation testing on flight and Hardware-In-The-Loop testbeds
- Oversee avionics system integration and serve as primary contact for integrated systems investigations
- Design, build, and operate HITL testbeds to simulate spacecraft behavior on the ground
- Support mission operations as an avionics specialist determining system health and reentry readiness
What they're looking for
- Avionics system design and architecture
- Electrical systems and power budgeting
- Python programming and debugging
- Test planning and validation methodology
- Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR)
- Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) testbed development
- Systems integration and cross-functional collaboration
- Mission operations and ground infrastructure
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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 and how you managed power, telemetry, and mass constraints.
- Walk us through a time you identified a critical fault in a system and how you developed a mitigation strategy.