Electronics Design and Analysis Engineer
Bastion Technologies
- San Antonio, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work directly with Project Team Lead and associated Electrical Engineers on a given project.
- Support new designs from conception, analysis, reliability, fabrication, integration, and test.
- Provide design support and guidance in various aspects of electrical/electronic systems development.
- Be familiar with NASA and DoD specifications for electronics component design and development.
- Prepare product reliability plans, establish requirements for and monitor reliability programs.
- Perform or review reliability analyses.
- Assess performance with respect to requirements.
- Evaluate effectiveness of the failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action implementation
- Prepare reports.
- Establish reliability models and utilize models for systems and subsystems analysis.
- Develop component test stand architectures for various components.
- Design and generate electrical components and lab instrumentation test system designs.
- Develop and or modify LabVIEW code for various test systems.
- Develop detailed test verification procedures.
- Work with electrical and mechanical technicians to build and test designed systems.
- Develop and test various breakout boxes and digital/analog sensor emulation systems.
- Perform electrical evaluation/selection of instrumentation.
- Troubleshoot and repair existing test systems.
- Conduct analog and digital printed circuit board design for various application needs.
- Develop test software modules to perform specific tests.
- Work with eCAD designers to develop printed circuit board designs.
- Other duties as assigned.
- This position requires US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status due to the sensitivity of customer related information.
- Must have space industry or DoD work experience.
- Must have a bachelor's degree in the field of engineering, or a related field.
- Must have 7+ years of recent and related work experience.
- 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.
- Digital, analog, or RF design and analysis, including analyses such as Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Worst Case Analysis (WCA), Electronic Parts Stress Analysis (PSA), Single-Events Effects Analysis (SEEA)
- Prior experience with electrical schematic entry and printed circuit board layout tools such as PSpice, LTSpice, and/or Altium Designer, and version control software such as Subversion (SVN).
- Use of computer aided engineering tools, including MathWorks/MATLAB, etc.
- Prior experience in test of power supply and conditioning systems.
- Prior experience with bonding and grounding.
- Prior experience with circuit design of analog PCB, digital PCB, and power PCB.
- Prior experience with data acquisition systems (especially National Instruments) and LabVIEW code development.
- Hands-on experience in the design, build, and test of embedded systems.
- Prior experience with circuit simulation tools such as PSpice, OrCAD, Multisim, etc.
- Experience with hardware and VHDL-based development for Space applications.
- Knowledge with Linux application/embedded code development.
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system and programming in C/C++ and Python.
- Experience in the hardware design of embedded systems (microcontrollers, FPGAs, sensor interfaces, I2C/SPI buses, UARTS, etc.).
- Prior experience with design and testing cable harnesses, design and testing of analog instrumentation systems design and testing of stepper and brushless DC-DC control circuits, and design and testing of power supply and conditioning systems.
- Experience with test hardware such as oscilloscopes, multi-meters, logic analyzers, function generators, electronic load banks, power supplies, power analyzers.
- Prior experience in design and test of analog instrumentation systems.
- Project based experience designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting power distribution electronics, battery systems, and other electrical hardware (requirements definition, system modeling and simulation; circuit analysis; PCB design, fabrication, and assembly; harness design and fabrication; requirements verification).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers designing and building world-class, NASA space-flight hardware.
- This position is located onsite with possible hybrid work arrangement.
- This position offers a 9/80 schedule, every other Friday off.
- This position may require some travel.
- Must have experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
- All of Bastion's employees must be team players.
- Able to communicate effectively, verbally and in written form, with internal and external customers.
- Able to follow company programs, processes, procedures, practices, requirements, goals, and objectives.
- Must have a strong work ethic and must be safety culture oriented.
- Must be organized with good time management skills.
- Generally, an office environment, but can involve inside or outside work depending on the task.
- Work may involve sitting or standing for extended periods (90% of the time).
- May require lifting and carrying up to 25 lbs. (5% of the time).
- Regular attendance in accordance with an established work schedule is critical.
- Ability to work outside normal schedule and adjust schedule to meet peak periods and surge requirements.