Electronics Design Engineer - Space Exploration Electronic Systems

Overview

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with apassionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Electronics Design Engineer - Space Exploration Electronic Systems to join the team with Barrios Technology.

Responsibilities

The Electronics Design Engineer - Space Exploration Electronic Systems will:

• Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of group of over 45 other Electronics andElectrical Engineers
• Work directly with or as a Team Lead and associated Electrical Engineers on a given project
• Support new designs from conception, analysis, and manufacturing, through to operational test and deployment
• Provide design support and guidance in various aspects of Electronics System Development
• Be familiar with NASA specifications for Electronics Component development
• Develop component test stand architectures for various components
• Design and generate electrical component and lab instrumentation test system designs
• Develop and or modify LabVIEW code for various test systems
• Develop detailed test verification procedures
• Work with electrical and mechanical technicians to build and test designed systems
• Develop and test various breakout boxes and digital/analog sensor emulation systems.Perform electrical evaluation/selection of instrumentation (pressure transducers, flow meters, pumps, fans, RTDs,Thermocouples, etc.)
• Troubleshoot and repair existing test systems
• Conduct analog and digital printed circuit board design for various application needs 
• Develop test software modules to perform specific tests
• Work with eCAD designer to develop printed circuit board designs
• Work in a laboratory environment, following standard operating procedures 
• Perform other duties as required and assigned

Qualifications

This position is posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate’s experience, position requirements and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised. 

Required Education/Experience/Skills:

• Typically requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering and normally possess 5-10 years of relatedexperience
• Prior experience with Power Supply Design, Power supply soft start circuit design, and switching regulatorsPrior experience with power supply remote senses, power distribution for PCB layout, Power Supply Phase Impedancemeasurements, and Power Supply efficiency calculation
• Prior experience in test of power supply and conditioning systems
• Prior experience with bonding and groundingPrior experience with circuit design of analog PCB, digital PCB, and power PCB
• Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as Altium Designer, andversion control software like Subversion (SVN)
• Prior experience with data acquisition systems (especially National Instruments) and LabVIEW code developmentPrior experience with FPGA circuitry design and coding in associated VHDL development environments (Xilinx FPGAusing VIVADO tool).
• Prior experience with microcontroller circuitry design and associated embedded software development environments

 

Preferences:

• BS degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and five (5) years of related engineering experience, or a MS degree from an accredited engineering school and four (4) years of related engineering experience, or Ph.D. from an accredited engineering school and zero (0) years of related experience
• Hands on experience in the design, build, and test of embedded systems
• Prior experience with circuit simulation tools such as Pspice, OrCAD, Multisim etc.
• Experience with hardware and VHDL-based development for Space applications
• Knowledge with Linux application/embedded code development
• Familiarity with the Linux operating system and programming in C/C++ and Python
• Experi