Electrical Engineer

About the Role

Ecliptic is growing its hardware engineering team at our San Luis Obispo facility. As an Electrical Engineer, you will design, develop, test, and deliver high reliability electronics for space applications, working on a small team with direct access to the hardware and the people making the decisions. We are hiring at every level, from recent graduates to senior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design circuit boards from requirements through schematic capture.
• Work with PCB layout designers on placement, stackup, routing constraints, and design reviews.
• Develop drawings and documentation to support PCB fabrication and assembly.
• Perform and review analyses such as power budgets, worst case, derating, and signal and power integrity.
• Select and source space grade and high reliability components.
• Lead board bring-up, debug, and checkout in the lab.
• Write test procedures and reports.
• Support integration and test of boards at the chassis and system level.
• Collaborate with system, hardware, FPGA, and software engineers on interfaces, protocols, and system designs.
• Document design specifications and implementation details.
• Present at design reviews.
• Maintain configuration control of engineering records.
• Report status, risks, and estimates to complete to project management.
• Mentor and direct technicians and interns on test and lab work.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or completion by the start date.
• Schematic capture experience with an ECAD tool. Altium Designer preferred.
• Hands-on lab skills with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and electronic loads.
• The ability to read, understand, and write specifications and test procedures.
• Good communicator (written and oral).

Additional Requirements (for EE II and Senior)

• At least one board design taken through fabrication, bring-up, and test.
• Experience designing high speed digital boards, including FPGA based designs.
• Working knowledge of PCB fabrication and assembly processes and related aerospace industry standards.
• Experience with version control and engineering change processes.

Preferred Education and Experience

• MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Hands-on hardware project experience, such as a student satellite, rocketry, robotics, or senior project.
• Experience with AMD Xilinx FPGA based systems, including high speed serial transceivers.
• Signal integrity simulation and measurement experience (e.g., HyperLynx, IBIS-AMI models, TDR, or eye diagram analysis).
• Experience with VPX, SpaceVPX, or similar backplane based systems.
• Experience with radiation tolerant component selection and derating.
• Experience with space flight hardware through qualification and delivery.
• Power electronics or point of load converter design experience.