Varda Space Industries
Spacecraft Systems Engineer, Electrical
About this role
Varda seeks an experienced Spacecraft Systems Engineer to design, integrate, and test avionics systems for its W-Series orbital vehicles. You'll lead electrical architecture development, fault analysis, verification testing, and ground infrastructure while collaborating across teams to ensure mission-critical systems perform through launch, operations, and reentry.
What you'll do
- Design electrical architecture, system diagrams, and budgets for power, telemetry, and mass predictions
- Analyze avionics architecture for faults and risks; develop FDIR strategies and mitigation plans
- Conduct comprehensive verification and validation testing on flight and HITL hardware
- Oversee avionics system integration and serve as primary contact for integrated systems investigations
- Design, build, and operate Hardware-In-The-Loop testbeds simulating spacecraft systems
- Support mission operations as avionics specialist; mentor junior engineers on best practices
What they're looking for
- Electrical systems design and architecture
- Python programming and debugging
- Avionics systems integration and testing
- Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR)
- Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbed development
- Requirements management and trade-off analysis
- Systems verification and validation
- Test automation and infrastructure development
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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 and telemetry budgets.
- Walk us through a time when you had to resolve conflicting requirements between subsystems—how did you approach it?