About the Job
As a Board Design Engineer, you will design, lay out, and validate the printed circuit assemblies that power Array’s radar payloads and on-orbit processing systems. Your work will span high-density digital and mixed-signal designs, power regulation modules, RF-interfaces, and compute hardware operating under the constraints of small satellite platforms. You will take boards from schematic through layout, manufacturing, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, digital, mechanical, and systems engineers. The boards you develop will directly influence Array’s signal integrity, processing throughput, thermal behavior, and overall radar system capability.
As part of our quickly growing engineering team, you will play a critical role in the design of the world’s most advanced radar satellite constellation—one that will significantly improve humanity’s ability to rapidly and comprehensively understand our changing planet.
Responsibilities
- Develop advanced electronic platforms, from architecture to manufacturing
- Work closely with software, firmware, RF, antenna, digital, and mechanical design engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art spacecraft electronics
- Create requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, design complex electronic assemblies and manage manufacturing
- Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, manufacturing, and test campaigns.
- Rapidly iterate on and improve electronic designs based on laboratory, environmental and on-orbit testing
- Experience in board design and layout
- Experience in electronics manufacture, bring-up, and test
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner
- High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints
- Bachelor in electrical engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of electrical engineering work experience with full-life cycle development (concept to production) of consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics
- Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, PCB fabrication, floorplanning, component selection, placement and routing, simulation and measurement
- Hands-on experience laying out high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches)
- Expertise in signal and power integrity simulation and measurement
- Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers
Compensation & Benefits
Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple: We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We want everyone here to have real ownership in what we're building.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (including a fully employer-paid medical plan)
- Paid parental leave (12 weeks / 6 weeks)
- 19 paid vacation days, 10 sick days, 11 company holidays
- 401(k) with employer match (100% match up to 3%, 50% match up to 5%)
- Commuter expenses (parking & transit)
- Daily lunch stipend; Audible subscription; Claude Pro access; relocation support
- Hybrid work options & flexibility
We reserve the right to modify base pay and other compensation components. More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
Interview Process
We will conduct interviews via Google Meet, with the potential for an onsite visit to our office in Redwood City, CA. The typical interview process takes around 3 to 5 weeks.
Why Join Array
At Array Labs, deep technical expertise meets relentless impact. We prioritize curiosity over hierarchy and bold ideas over incremental gains. Our world-class team across hardware engineering, software, and aerospace works collaboratively to push boundaries.
Join industry-leading experts to build the future of radar and deliver unprecedented insights into the physical world.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications without regard to gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- Experience in board design and layout
- Experience in electronics manufacturing, bring-up, and testing
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Ability to learn new concepts rapidly, completely, and independently
- High self-motivation and personal accountability
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field
- 4+ years of electrical engineering experience with full lifecycle development from concept to production
- Experience with high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques
- Hands-on experience designing compute platforms using SoCs, FPGAs, or MCUs
- Experience with DDR, SSD, PCIe, SPI, JESD204B, and RF components
- Expertise in signal and power integrity simulation and measurement
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes and network analyzers
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required ITAR authorizations
What We Do
High quality 3D imagery is the key to understanding the world around us and is critically important to a host of traditional and emerging industries. However, current methods of supplying this data are slow, expensive, or low-quality. Array Labs is developing next-generation earth observation satellites which will deliver a complete perspective of the earth in near-real time.
