Contract Electrical Engineer

Aegis Aerospace has a long legacy of developing space hardware payloads for the International Space Station and more recently for NASA's Lunar missions. We continue to expand our portfolio of projects as we are developing yet another ISS payload and hardware for a commercial space station. We are seeking a skilled Electrical Engineer to join our project team in Webster, TX to design the electrical hardware required to support these exciting projects. The successful candidate will be an experienced product development engineer responsible for designing, procuring, assembling and testing electrical hardware.

This role is for a 2 Year contract with pay not to exceed 29 hours a week.

Key Responsibilities

This position is responsible for:
• Interpreting electrical hardware requirements based on the interfacing hardware.
• Developing and documenting electrical system requirements.
• Conducting concept trade studies and providing electrical expertise to evaluate design options.
• Planning and executing verification and validation activities to ensure the electrical design meets all requirements.
• Preparing and presenting design progress, approach, and rationale to design review boards.
• Ensuring hardware designs meet size, weight, power, and cost budgets.
• Authoring, updating, and maintaining hardware specifications throughout the project lifecycle.
• Defining and baselining electrical interfaces to ensure seamless system integration.
• Performing and/or reviewing electrical analyses.
• Overseeing the preparation, review, and release of electrical drawings to ensure technical accuracy and compliance with project schedules.
• Authoring detailed assembly procedures to ensure hardware is built to specifications.
• Developing test procedures to verify electrical hardware compliance with specifications and drawings.
• Executing procurement, manufacturing, assembly, and testing of electrical hardware to meet project milestones and quality standards.
• Contributing to safety documentation and presenting to safety review boards as required.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including mechanical, systems, and quality engineers, to ensure project success.
• Performing other duties as assigned to support project objectives.
• Minimal travel required; occasional evening or weekend work may be necessary to meet project deadlines.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or college.
• At least five years of electrical engineering experience in product development for spaceflight, aerospace, or other high-reliability, high-specification equipment.
• Proficiency with circuit design and analysis software, such as Altium, for designing electrical systems and circuit boards.
• Experience with usage of laboratory equipment to verify and troubleshoot the performance of electrical systems.
• Demonstrated experience conducting trade studies for electrical design optimization.
• Competent with advanced engineering calculations for electrical circuits.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with sound engineering judgment.
• Highly dependable, self-motivated, and accountable, with the ability to work effectively in a team or independently.
• U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder). Must successfully complete a U.S. government background check.

Desired Qualifications
• Experience designing, procuring, manufacturing, and testing hardware for extreme environments (e.g., space, high-temperature, or high-vibration conditions).
• Proficient experience with using Altium for PCB design, especially systems with embedded processors.
• Experience developing software to test PCB functionality
• Power system design, including DC-DC converter design and implementation of DC-DC converters and linear regulators.
• Digital measurement of analog sensors, including signal conditioning (with passive components and operational amplifiers), ADC selection, and ADC interfacing.

About Aegis Aerospace

We are a woman-owned space and technology company headquartered in Houston, TX. Our primary objective is to support the Department of Defense and NASA in achieving their missions to defend the security of our country, reach new heights and to discover the unknown. We employ some of the brightest, most experienced engineering and technology experts in the U.S.

To learn more about Aegis Aerospace, visit our website at www.aegisaero.com.

Aegis Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer /M/F/disability/protected veteran employer.