Rockville, MD or Hawthorne, CA or Denver, CO On-site Full-time USD 100,000 – 125,000 / year

Quantum Space is hiring an Electrical Engineer II - Advanced Programs

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the full lifecycle development of custom spacecraft electronic systems, from initial concept to flight delivery
  • Create and implement analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit designs for onboard avionics, communications, embedded systems, and vehicle subsystems
  • Produce schematic diagrams and design multi-layer printed circuit boards for flight and flight-representative hardware
  • Conduct hardware initialization, electrical diagnostics, validation testing, and resolve technical issues
  • Work closely with systems, RF, mechanical, thermal, FPGA, software, and integration engineers to ensure fully functional spacecraft electronics
  • Assist in hardware integration and verification tasks during spacecraft assembly, integration, and test phases
  • Take part in key engineering reviews such as System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, and Flight Readiness Review
  • Generate and manage technical documentation including schematics, interface control documents, requirements specifications, test procedures, and verification records
  • Engage in design trade-offs, technical evaluations, and cross-disciplinary engineering assessments
  • Enhance the reliability, producibility, and mission readiness of electronic hardware through iterative design improvements
  • Support concurrent development across multiple spacecraft programs in a high-tempo engineering setting

Benefits

  • Direct involvement in creating electronics essential to advanced space missions
  • Opportunity to shape emerging avionics and communications systems for agile space operations
  • Deliver hardware that enables national security, civil, and commercial space applications
  • Be part of an integrated team spanning design, integration, testing, and mission deployment
  • Attractive compensation package with competitive salary, equity, medical, dental, vision, leave benefits, FSA, 401(k) matching, and equity sharing

Compensation

Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, generous leave, FSA, 401(k) matching, and equity sharing

Work Arrangement

Not specified

Team

Collaborative engineering environment spanning spacecraft development, integration, qualification, and mission execution

Other

  • Must be capable of supporting spacecraft assembly, integration, and test (AI&T) activities
  • May be required to attend engineering reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and FRR
  • Familiarity with environmental testing such as thermal vacuum, vibration, and EMI/EMC is beneficial

Not specified

About company
Quantum Space

Quantum Space is a space defense and orbital mobility company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The company builds Ranger, a maneuverable spacecraft engineered to operate across every orbit, from low Earth orbit to geostationary and cislunar space. Ranger provides space domain awareness, satellite servicing, satellite life extension, and on-orbit refueling for national security, civil, and commercial customers.

Its multi-mode propulsion, modular payload architecture, and fifteen-year on-station endurance allow it to reposition rapidly and hold forward presence where conventional satellites cannot. Quantum Space works with program managers, primes, and government and commercial operators to field responsive, resilient capabilities across the full spectrum of space operations.

The company is led by a team with deep national security and space industry experience, including CEO Jim Bridenstine, former NASA Administrator, Executive Chairman Kam Ghaffarian, and President Kerry Wisnosky. Quantum Space supports the U.S. Space Force's Theory of Competitive Endurance by enabling freedom to maneuver in contested space domains.

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