About the company
Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites, providing maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Responsibilities
- Electrical design of spacecraft electronics including requirement gathering, architecture and detailed design
- Component selection and circuit-level design and simulation
- Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer
- Power supply and power monitoring circuit design
- Design verification through circuit simulations, including worst-case analysis
- Signal and power integrity simulation and analysis
- Peer review of schematics and layouts
- Board bring-up, validation and debugging
- Assist the validation and qualification process for testing new and existing systems
Requirements
- Electronics theory, component knowledge, analogue and digital circuitry expertise
- Board design including schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium preferred) with focus on DFM
- Experience with FPGA (Zynq MPSoC/RFSoC or similar) based designs for high-speed, high data-rate DSP applications
- Strong knowledge of high-speed digital layout design practices (matched impedance, stack up, manufacturing restrictions) and SI tools
- Experience with digital communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, USB, RS485, RS422, SpaceWire, PCIe, Gbit Ethernet)
- Experience with Rigid, Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB design
- Strong debugging experience and fault identification
- Experience with lab equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analysers, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, VNAs
- Preferred: IPC-6012DS Class 3A or ECSS-Q-ST-70-12C/60C compliance; high power electronic design and thermal management; Hyperlynx; space environmental and component reliability requirements; Verilog/VHDL; C/C++ embedded and DSP programming; EMI/EMC design; RF electronics design
Conditions
- Full-time position requiring on-site presence at the Munich office
- Access to US export-controlled software/technology may be required
- Perks: generous time off, education assistance, EAP, ESPP, family leave, fitness reimbursement, referral program