Senior Electronics Engineer – High-Reliability Space Hardware (m/f/d)

Your mission

What You Will Do

• Assess existing electronic architectures and designs with regard to requirements, robustness, failure behaviour, testability, and future qualification needs.
• Identify technical risks and recommend practical design improvements.
• Develop and review mixed-signal and power electronics, including sensor interfaces, power distribution, protection circuits, monitoring, and actuator or valve drivers.
• Translate system requirements into hardware requirements, interface definitions, design assumptions, and verification objectives.
• Perform circuit and subsystem analyses such as worst-case analysis, derating assessment, and electrical stress analysis.
• Perform electronics-related FMEA/FMECA activities and provide technical input to system-level failure and reliability analyses.
• Plan and execute structured hardware bring-up, debugging, robustness testing, and fault-injection testing.
• Prepare EMI/EMC pre-compliance and formal test activities, including test objectives, configurations, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
• Select components with consideration for electrical performance, availability, lifetime, derating, failure behaviour, and future qualification constraints.
• Define electrical PCB layout constraints and review layouts for grounding, return paths, EMC, power integrity, signal integrity, and testability.
• Document important requirements, design decisions, analyses, and verification results.
• Work closely with junior electronics engineers as well as software, control, mechanical, test, and system engineers.

Your profile

• A degree in electrical engineering or a comparable technical background.
• Several years of hands-on experience developing and testing electronic hardware.
• Experience with complete electronic subsystems rather than only individual circuit blocks.
• Experience in a high-reliability, mission-critical, or safety-relevant environment such as aerospace, automotive, medical, railway, industrial safety, or space.
• Strong schematic design and circuit analysis skills in mixed-signal or power electronics.
• A solid understanding of component tolerances, temperature effects, electrical stress, protection concepts, and electronic failure behaviour.
• Practical laboratory experience with hardware bring-up, debugging, and structured testing.
• The ability to work from requirements through design and analysis to verification.
• Strong written and spoken English.

• Practical experience with one or more of the following:
• EMI/EMC design and test preparation
• FMEA, DFMEA, or FMECA
• Worst-case circuit analysis
• Derating or electrical stress analysis
• Requirements-based verification
• Fault-injection or robustness testing
• Design reviews in a regulated or structured development environment

Nice to Have

• Experience with space hardware, ECSS, EEE components, environmental testing, or qualification planning.
• Experience with sensor electronics, solenoids, valves, motors, DC/DC conversion, or power distribution.
• Experience with Altium Designer or a comparable ECAD environment.
• Experience with SPICE-based simulation.
• Familiarity with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for analysis and test automation.
• Experience supporting or mentoring less experienced engineers.

We offer

• Meaningful technical responsibility for hardware used in real space systems.
• The opportunity to mature existing prototypes into robust, qualification-ready designs.
• Close collaboration across electronics, software, control, mechanics, test, and systems engineering.
• The opportunity to influence our electronics development, verification, and review processes as the team grows.
• Permanent full-time position with flexible working hours and 30 days of annual leave.
• Bike leasing, EGYM Wellpass, Deutschlandticket subsidy, professional development opportunities, company events, and complimentary beverages.