The Role
Design and validate digital and mixed-signal spacecraft electronics for radar payloads and satellite platforms, including high-speed interfaces, precision timing, power regulation, telemetry, and fault-tolerant systems. Lead prototyping, bring-up, testing, manufacturing, and iterative improvement across laboratory, environmental, and on-orbit qualification efforts while collaborating with RF, antenna, mechanical, software, and systems teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Array Labs builds advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world.
We’re launching a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create a high-resolution 3D map of the Earth – updated in real time – enabling faster, smarter decision-making for government and commercial organizations supporting disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical geopolitical intelligence.
We design and build our satellites end-to-end, producing the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites. Our fleet will deliver unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and responsiveness to power critical insights precisely where they’re needed most.
About the Job
As an EE Hardware Design Engineer, you will design and validate the digital and mixed-signal electronics that support Array’s radar payloads and satellite platforms. Your work will include high-speed digital interfaces, precision clocking and timing distribution, power regulation and control circuits, system monitoring and telemetry hardware, and fault-tolerant designs suitable for the constraints of small satellites. You will take hardware from design, prototyping, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, mechanical, and systems engineers. The hardware you develop will directly affect system performance, power efficiency, stability, and overall reliability on orbit.
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
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in electronics design, fabrication, 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
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of proven electrical engineering work experience with full-life cycle development (concept to production) of consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics
- Solid 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
- Solid background in electromagnetic theory and RF fundamentals such as s-parameters, transmission lines, and broadband impedance matching
- Hands-on experience designing high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches)
- Proficiency with schematic capture and layout using CAD tools such as Altium Designer, Allegro, and ORCAD
- Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques
- Expertise in signal and power integrity simulation and measurement
- Expertise in EM and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards
- Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTSPICE, ADS and Microwave Office
- Experience with data analysis and programming in MATLAB or python
- Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers
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 and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Interview Process
We will conduct interviews via Google Meet; the typical process takes around 2-4 weeks to complete from start to finish.
Hiring and Compensation Strategy
Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple:
1) find uncommonly good people
2) pay them uncommonly well
You can anticipate competitive pay, with high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.
Why Join Array Labs?
Array Labs is launching a constellation of satellites to create the first high-resolution, real-time, three-dimensional model of Earth. Our next-generation satellite technology will offer image quality 60x greater than traditional techniques, profoundly expanding humanity’s ability to understand and respond to events on a global scale.
In forging an affordable, accessible, accurate representation of Earth, our work has the potential to transform the face of dozens of fields, including autonomy, telecommunications, disaster relief, gaming, climate science, defense and construction.
Skills Required
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience in electronics design, fabrication, and test.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- Ability to learn new concepts rapidly and work self-directed.
- High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints.
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations (ITAR requirement).
- 4+ years of EE work experience with full life-cycle development (preferred).
- Background in high-speed board design, PCB stack-up, fabrication, floorplanning, placement and routing, simulation and measurement (preferred).
- Background in electromagnetic theory and RF fundamentals (s-parameters, transmission lines, impedance matching) (preferred).
- Hands-on experience with compute, storage, and high-speed interfaces (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs, DDR, SSDs, PCIe, SPI, JESD204B) and RF components (preferred).
- Proficiency with schematic capture and layout tools such as Altium Designer, Allegro, and ORCAD (preferred).
- Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques (preferred).
- Expertise in signal and power integrity simulation and measurement (preferred).
- Expertise in EM and thermal simulation of PCBs (preferred).
- Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTSPICE, ADS, Microwave Office (preferred).
- Experience with data analysis and programming in MATLAB or Python (preferred).
- Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers (preferred).
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The Company
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.
