Electronics Design Engineer; BT

Bastion Technologies, Inc.

Department: JETS II

Employment Type: Full Time

will support the space program located in Houston, TX.

• Report directly to the Electronics and Electrical Section Manager as part of a group of over 45 other Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for VIPER’s electrical power subsystem.
• Provide VIPER Mission Operations Support (updates to Power Console handbook, Ground Alarm Limit, and tools), including monitoring of live telemetry and subsystem performance.
• Provide VIPER Mission Operations Console Operations (Post-landing Simulation, Planning, Simulation, Driving & Safe Haven Simulation, and Permanently Shadowed Region Operations Simulation).
• Develop and maintain power budgets, load analyses, and fault-response logic.
• Conduct System Testing: MGRU4 Long Duration and Battery Low State-of-Charge Driving test, Long Term Storage 6-month Vehicle Power-on Checkout Test, VIPER Powered-on Sustaining Test, and VIPER Flight SW Update and Powered-on Sustaining Test.
• Serve as the VIPER/Lander Power Quality Test Lead (Test objectives and TPS development, and Testbed Dry-run execution).
• Serve as VIPER Testbed Lab Manager (Monthly ESD Checks, Weekly Cleanliness Assay, Calibrated Equipment Management, and Testbed Enclosure Upgrade Design and Implementation to support evolving test requirement).
• Document test configurations and analyze results to support anomaly resolution and system improvements.
• Support new designs from conception, analysis, and manufacturing, through to operational test and deployment.
• Be familiar with NASA specifications for Electronics Component development.
• Develop component test stand architectures for various components.
• Develop and/or modify LabVIEW code for various test systems.
• Perform electrical evaluation/selection of instrumentation (pressure transducers, flow meters, pumps, fans, RTDs, thermocouples, etc.).
• Conduct analog and digital printed circuit board design for various application needs.
• Develop test software modules to perform specific tests.
• Other duties as assigned.

This position has been posted at multiple levels (must meet minimum level indicated). Depending on the candidate’s experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
• Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering
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• Must have 5+ years of recent and related work experience.
• Requires space industry or DoD work experience.
• Prior experience conducting Power System Analysis for mission operations/planning and requirement close-out using Simscape (Electrical) to model and run simulations.
• Prior experience conducting data analysis using National Instruments DIAdem, including data visualization, scripting, and automated reporting for engineering and test datasets.
• Prior experience with Power Supply Design, Power supply soft start circuit design, and switching regulators.
• Prior experience with power supply remote senses, power distribution for PCB layout, Power Supply Phase Impedance measurements, and Power Supply efficiency calculation.
• Prior experience in test of power supply and conditioning systems.
• Prior experience with power system stability analysis.
• Prior experience with circuit design of analog PCB, digital PCB, and power PCB.
• Prior experience with SPICE Simulation.
• Prior experience with Power Quality.
• Prior experience with bonding and grounding.
• Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as Altium Designer, and version control software like Subversion (SVN).
• Prior experience with data acquisition systems (especially National Instruments) and LabVIEW code development.
• Prior experience with FPGA circuitry design and coding in associated VHDL development environments (Xilinx FPGA using VIVADO tool).
• Prior experience with microcontroller circuitry design and associated embedded software development environments.

• Background in Systems Engineering.
• Prior experience…