Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Electrical Engineer, HITL & Avionics Systems
About this role
Varda seeks a Spacecraft Electrical Engineer to design, integrate, and test avionics systems for the Winnebago orbital vehicle. You'll develop electrical architectures, conduct comprehensive verification on flight and HITL hardware, oversee system integration, and support mission operations from ground infrastructure to space and reentry phases.
What you'll do
- Design electrical architectures, system diagrams, and budgets for power, telemetry, and mass predictions aligned with vehicle objectives
- Analyze avionics architecture for faults and risks, developing mitigation plans and FDIR strategies
- Develop and execute comprehensive verification plans for flight and HITL avionics hardware
- Design, build, and operate Hardware In The Loop testbeds to simulate spacecraft systems on the ground
- Oversee Winnebago avionics integration and serve as primary contact for integrated system investigations
- Support mission operations as avionics specialist, assessing system health and reentry commit criteria
What they're looking for
- Avionics system design and integration
- Electrical architecture and power budgeting
- Python programming and debugging
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbed design
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)
- Test planning and validation
- Spacecraft systems and reentry operations
- Requirements analysis and trade-off resolution
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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 avionics systems for spacecraft or complex aerospace vehicles. What challenges did you encounter?
- Walk us through how you've developed and executed a comprehensive verification plan for critical flight systems.