Hiring: Chief Engineer - Electrical Engineering Company: Firefly Aerospace Location: Cedar Park, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:51:59 Target Skills & Keywords : ASIC, Aerospace Engineering, Configuration Management, FPGA, Firmware, PCB, Program Management, Requirements Management, Security Clearance, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •15+ years of progressive experience in electrical or avionics engineering for complex aerospace systems (launch vehicles and/or spacecraft), including significant technical leadership responsibility. Required Skills: •Own the technical baseline and architectural direction for electrical and avionics systems across Hardware, Firmware, Harnessing, Launch Vehicle Systems, and Spacecraft Systems. •Define and own spacecraft and launch vehicle electrical architectures, including power generation/distribution/storage, command and data handling, communication interfaces, and harnessing. •Establish, maintain, and enforce electrical engineering design standards, processes, and best practices. •Lead the development, allocation, and management of system and subsystem electrical requirements, ensuring traceability, verification, and validation. •Lead and chair major design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR) and technical risk assessments; sign off on design maturity and readiness. •Strategically drive common modular architecture effort to maximize reuse and commonality across launch vehicles and spacecraft. •Provide technical direction and oversight to electrical, power, avionics, FPGA/ASIC, firmware, and harness teams; review and approve key design artifacts, analyses, schematics, ICDs, power budgets, and test plans. •Lead trade studies (power architectures, redundancy, component selection, radiation tolerance, derating, thermal/electrical interfaces) to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and risk. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field. •Demonstrated experience as technical authority or chief/lead engineer on flight hardware programs, owning architecture and design integrity through development, integration, test, and flight. •Strong technical depth in spacecraft/launch vehicle power systems, avionics/data handling (including common buses such as SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet), harnessing, and related disciplines. •Proven experience with EEE parts selection and derating, radiation effects (TID, SEE) and mitigation, requirements management, and space environmental qualification. •Track record leading multi-disciplinary teams, conducting trade studies, resolving complex technical issues, and balancing technical performance with cost and schedule constraints. •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare and present complex technical material to engineering teams, leadership, and external customers. •Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines. •Master’s Degree or Ph.D. preferred. •Direct experience with modular avionics architectures and design-for-reuse across multiple vehicle platforms. •Hands-on background in board-level design, FPGA/ASIC development, or harness design and analysis. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!