Senior Electrical Systems Engineer - Space Exploration

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Voyager Space and Airbus have embarked on a transatlantic joint venture to design, build, and operate the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab will ensure a continued human presence in low-Earth orbit and a seamless transition of microgravity science and research from the International Space Station into the new commercial space station era.

Furthermore, Airbus U.S. Houston is developing next generation external payload hosting solutions and provides support to external payload customers for commercial and government Low Earth Orbit applications on the International Space Station ISS.

The Senior Electrical Systems Engineer (E2E System Engineering Support) will play a key role in defining, designing and implementing electrical systems for next generation commercial space station and external ISS payloads.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

Active role in development of commercial space station and ISS Payloads Electrical Design including:

• Develop procedures, work instructions, and process flows for successful integration, test, and delivery of electrical sub-components.
• Generate essential paperwork and documents for tasks assigned, such as Test Record Sheets (TRS), Discrepancy Reports (DR) etc., as needed.
• Plan and execute hardware development and troubleshooting procedures and ability to investigate electrical and mechanical failures with hardware as applicable.
• Coordination with Project Management and Engineering in the development, integration and testing to support the schedule and milestone completion efforts as defined per project.
• Parts selection and procurement for general fabrication of electrical components and test setup GSE
• Design, develop, analyze and test electrical devices, circuits, harnesses, and equipment, and electrical systems for spaceflight payload system and experiment hardware.
• Systematically document progress, capture knowledge, and maintain electrical engineering notebook
• Support testing of space payloads at a component and integrated test level in electrical and mechanical test environments
• Perform hands on electrical integration and test tasks.

Active role in development of commercial space station Electrical Design (E2E System Engineering Support) including:

• Comprehensive design of commercial space station electrical subsystems, including Payload Avionics, ECLSS, CSS etc.
  • Familiarization of existing Subsystem related documentation
  • Preliminary to detailed design evolution: including architecture, engineering budgets (power, data, mass, volume), and structural, thermal, electrical and data handling design, software implementation
  • Coordination with commercial space station subsystems (thermal, power, electrical, ECLSS, payloads, etc.) to ensure design compatibility and interface definitions
  • Implementation of commercial space station constraints into the electrical design process, such as mass, volume or power limitations and frequently changing baselines via continuous coordination with joint venture and internal stakeholders
  • Independent advancement of electrical internal trade-offs and analyses in a highly dynamically changing environment
  • Initiation and steering of required simulations, task analysis, and cross-discipline analyses
  • Development of verification and validation (V&V) approach
  • Development of assembly, integration and test (AIT) approach
  • Inputs to operations concepts, logistics and redundancy and spare approaches
  • Gathering, understanding and implementation of detailed design information from suppliers on specific