The Role
Lead electrical engineer responsible for power and analog architecture across spacecraft programs (EPS, BMS, isolated supplies, analog chains). Set technical direction, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, ensure space-grade practices (derating, radiation mitigation), and collaborate with FPGA, software, mechanical, and systems teams. On-site in Broomfield, CO.
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Be one of the Bedo 100
Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.
As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on earth.
How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.
Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.
If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100.
Albedo is looking for a technical lead for power and analog electrical engineering on our avionics and spacecraft-power programs. You own electrical architecture across programs (EPS, bus regulation, battery management, isolated supplies, analog signal chains, and board- and box-level electrical design), set EE technical direction alongside engineering management, and drive the next generation of what our electronics can do. You lead through architecture, design review, and mentoring, with the day-to-day design work delegated to other engineers. You stay hands-on as time allows, taking the hard and high-stakes design work yourself.
Your Ideal Skills and Experience:
- 10+ years of electrical-engineering experience
- BSEE required (MSEE preferred)
- Extensive end-to-end hardware-design experience: multiple designs taken from concept through production
- Deep power and analog expertise: DC/DC (buck / boost / flyback), battery management, bus regulation, isolated supplies, analog signal-chain and mixed-signal design; first-principles thermal, transient, and efficiency analysis
- High-voltage DC power design, including isolation, protection, and creepage/clearance discipline
- Solid grasp of digital architecture: enough to partner on the electrical interfaces and mixed-signal boundaries to FPGA / avionics and flight software
- Hands-on schematic capture AND PCB layout on complex multi-layer designs, plus a working command of signal integrity and power integrity (controlled impedance, return paths, stackup, decoupling), and the judgment to review others' designs
- EMI/EMC understanding: design for electromagnetic compatibility, grounding, shielding, filtering, and control of conducted/radiated emissions
- Strong lab / hands-on skills: power measurement, standard bench instruments, board bring-up and debug
- A track record of setting technical direction and mentoring other engineers
- Helps enforce EE design-review discipline: holds designs to the standard and gates reviews before release
- A working understanding of the space environment and what radiation does to ICs (TID and single-event effects / SEE: SEU / SEL / SET) and how that drives part selection, derating, and design margin
- Experience flying COTS parts in space: using commercial parts in the radiation environment safely (rad-tolerance by design, upscreening / lot testing, architecture-level mitigation) instead of defaulting to expensive rad-hard, and knowing when a rad-hard part is genuinely required
- Space / avionics rigor: parts derating and stress analysis, reliability, design margin for flight electronics
- Works cross-functionally with FPGA / avionics, flight software, mechanical / thermal, and systems teams
- Supports proposals when needed: EE/power architecture concepts, power budgets, compliance-matrix input, and rough BOM/cost for new-business responses
- A push-the-envelope mindset: always looking for new, cheaper, faster, more-reliable ways to build exquisite capability at a fraction of the cost
- On-site in Broomfield, CO
Nice to have:
- Motor-control power stages (brushless-motor drive electronics)
- Altium experience specifically (we use Altium and can teach the tool; the capture/layout skill above is what's required)
- MSEE
- Python for test automation and analysis tooling
- Automated parts-stress / derating tooling
- Experience using AI tools in daily engineering work: LLM assistants for design, review, analysis, and documentation
Salary Range:
$190,000 - $220,000 per year
Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles:
- Employee friendly equity compensation
- 4% direct matching 401k
- Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
- Parental leave and childcare coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
- 12 company holidays
- $100 monthly wellness benefit
- Relocation package if not based in Denver
The final compensation package is subject to change if the candidate's experience and company need drive a different job level than originally slated for the position.
Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.
Additional Requirements: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. All persons hired will be required to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or 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/Veterans/Disabled: Albedo is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Relocation: Relocation support for this position is available
Applicants must be a U.S. Person as defined under 22 CFR 120.62
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Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Albedo, we'd rather hear from you. We care more about how you think than which boxes you check. We value people who do the math, make their assumptions explicit, and ask the annoying questions: what breaks, what's the failure mode, what has to be true for this to work? If that sounds like you, apply, even if you don't meet every line.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of electrical-engineering experience
- BSEE degree
- MSEE degree
- Extensive end-to-end hardware design experience (concept through production)
- Deep power and analog expertise: DC/DC (buck/boost/flyback), battery management, bus regulation, isolated supplies, mixed-signal design
- High-voltage DC power design including isolation, protection, creepage/clearance discipline
- Schematic capture and PCB layout on complex multi-layer designs; signal integrity and power integrity knowledge
- EMI/EMC design for grounding, shielding, filtering, and emissions control
- Strong lab/hands-on skills: power measurement, bench instruments, board bring-up and debug
- Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring other engineers
- Working understanding of space radiation effects (TID, SEE) and part selection/derating strategies
- Experience flying COTS parts in space and designing rad-tolerance by architecture/upscreening
- Space/avionics rigor: parts derating, stress analysis, reliability and design margin for flight electronics
- Ability to work cross-functionally with FPGA/avionics, flight software, mechanical/thermal, and systems teams
- On-site work in Broomfield, CO
- Must be a U.S. Person and eligible to work in the United States
- Altium experience
- Motor-control power stages / brushless motor drive electronics
- Python for test automation and analysis tooling
- Automated parts-stress / derating tooling
- Experience using AI/LLM tools in daily engineering work
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The Company
What We Do
Albedo is the first space company to commercialize and provide platform capabilities to the new orbit regime of VLEO. VLEO — very low Earth orbit — transforms satellite capabilities by operating twice as close to Earth, enabling dramatic improvements in performance while reducing system costs. Albedo’s first satellite Clarity-1 — launched in March 2025 and now operating in VLEO — exemplifies the disruptive potential of the company’s proprietary VLEO platform. Clarity-1 delivers imagery at a resolution previously exclusive to drones & aircraft or billion-dollar classified satellites, while showcasing a platform that can support a variety of mission types. The world is rapidly changing and a new level of visibility and transparency is required to solve some of our largest problems. Albedo’s 10cm visible and 2m thermal imagery will fuel insights for industries such as mapping, insurance, utilities, solar, agriculture, carbon offsets, infrastructure sustainability, national security, and much more.
