Founding Lunar Avionics / Electronics Engineer

Your circuit board will wake up on the lunar surface next year.

You’ll design the electronics and flight software that bring our 2027 lunar payload to life: commanding the ISRU brick fabrication process, inflating a habitat bladder, and getting data back to Earth. 

What you’ll do:

• Design the avionics stack: controller boards, power distribution, sensor interfaces and valve actuation electronics.
• Write the flight software for payload sequencing, closed-loop process control, and fault management.
• Own the electrical interface to the CLPS lander (power, data, commanding, telemetry formatting).
• Select and qualify components for the lunar radiation and thermal environment.
• Design and build harnessing, including a lunar umbilical cord exposed on the Moon for our deployable payload.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience designing mixed-signal PCBs from schematic through layout, fabrication, and bring-up (full-cycle).
• RS-485 / serial protocol design: you can write a protocol ICD and define baud rate, framing, CRC, and fault handling from scratch.
• Flight software in C/C++ on microcontrollers: state machines, FDIR, watchdog logic, closed-loop control.
• Familiarity with spaceflight-adjacent standards for wiring, grounding, and EMI/EMC.
• Power electronics: 28 Vdc conditioning, inrush limiting, motor driver integration, and power budget analysis.
• Harness design: MIL-STD-38999 connectors, EMI/EMC compliance, thermal-rated wire and insulation (Kapton/PTFE), shielding continuity.
• Comfort operating across the hardware/software boundary: you can debug a board with an oscilloscope and a JTAG probe.
• You’ve built flight hardware before
• Excellent communication skills

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