Senior Avionics Engineer

5w1 month ago

Outpost

Los Angeles, US · Full-time · $115,000 – $185,000

About this role

Outpost is building the missing infrastructure between orbit and Earth: reusable vehicles that bring payloads back from space and deliver them to a precise location within hours. As Senior Avionics Engineer, you will own avionics subsystems end to end for Earth return vehicles and ground support equipment.

Day to day, you will develop electrical architectures, design circuits, capture schematics, and lay out PCBAs. You will also design custom electrical harnesses, oversee harness builds, and make build versus buy decisions to satisfy design, schedule, and budget requirements.

You will collaborate closely with engineers across multiple domains to create efficient and sustainable solutions. The Avionics team is responsible for the design, testing, and production of electronic systems, and you will engage in all aspects of spacecraft development from architecture through flight and re-entry support.

Outpost has validated demand through multiple defense and civil agreements and is scaling rapidly. This is a chance to join a company with real traction, working on a problem that matters, at the point where execution and scale define the outcome.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or related field
6+ years of experience designing and building electrical hardware for high-reliability applications such as aerospace, defense, or automotive
Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (e.g., multimeters, signal generators, oscilloscopes, electronic loads)
Ability to write software scripts to automate hardware testing in Python or similar language
Prior clean-sheet design projects in one or more of: embedded systems, power distribution, instrumentation and sensor selection, avionics, analog and mixed-signal circuits
Experience designing electrical systems for spacecraft or high-reliability vehicles

Responsibilities

Develop electrical architectures, design circuits, capture schematics, and lay out PCBAs
Design custom electrical harnesses and oversee harness builds
Make build vs. buy decisions to best satisfy design, schedule, and budget requirements
Develop and support electrical ground equipment and test hardware, including HITL and FlatSat setups
Drive root-cause analysis and troubleshooting of electronics-related issues in spacecraft and ground systems
Interface directly with external vendors to ensure hardware is delivered on time and with expected quality
Contribute to defining avionics team best practices such as documentation, design reviews, and hardware-related development processes

Benefits

Work on reusable vehicles that bring payloads back from space and deliver to a precise location within hours
Own avionics subsystems end to end from architecture through flight and re-entry support
Join a company with validated demand through multiple defense and civil agreements
Be part of a rapidly scaling team building the logistics layer that makes space economically useful