Staff Electrical Design Engineer

Array Labs•California, MD 20636, US• Internship

Posted 2 weeks ago• Mechanical

Compensation

$170,000–$220,000/year

Job Description

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.

As a Staff Electrical 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 satellite avionics. You will take hardware through 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.

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

Provide technical leadership through design reviews, risk reduction planning, and mentorship of early-career engineers

Basic Qualifications

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 7-14 years of relevant experience

Experience in electronics design, bring-up, 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

Master’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field

Hands-on experience with full-life cycle hardware development (concept to production) in consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics

Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, fabrication considerations, layout constraints, component selection, and measurement

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 design using CAD tools such as Altium Designer (preferred); experience with Allegro and/or OrCAD is a plus

Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques

Experience with signal and power integrity simulation and measurement

Experience with EM and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards

Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTspice, ADS, and/or 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 three interviews via Zoom; the typical process takes around 3-5 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, generous equity, and high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Why Join Array

At Array Labs, deep technical expertise meets relentless impact. We prioritize curiosity over hierarchy and bold engineering over incremental gains. Our world-class team across hardware engineering, software, and aerospace works collaboratively to push boundaries and move fast.

Our values:

1. Build What Matters: Create technology that serves customers and advances humanity

2. Innovate Together: Stay curious, collaborate openly, push boundaries as one team

3. Employee Centric: Put our people first with a culture of trust, respect, and opportunity

Join industry-leading experts to deliver unprecedented insights about our planet and build the future of Earth observation.