# Spacecraft Electronics Engineer

EraDrive builds autonomy software and hardware that let spacecraft see, decide, and act with minimal human control. Our spacecraft self-driving software has been demonstrated in orbit on NASA's Starling mission, and we are growing it into a hardware product family covering alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), rendezvous, in-orbit inspection, and space domain awareness. The Role You will own the electrical design of Era-Node, EraDrive's spacecraft autonomy payload, from architecture and detailed design through implementation, qualification, integration, and delivery. Your scope includes payload power, custom boards, communication and timing interfaces, cabling and connectors, and ground electrical test infrastructure. This is a hands-on role: you will design circuits, bring up boards, troubleshoot hardware, and work with internal engineering teams, suppliers, and the host spacecraft team to deliver reliable flight units. What You Will Do Define Era-Node's electrical architecture, requirements, power budgets, and interface control documentation, coordinating connections among cameras, processors, clocks, the host spacecraft, and the ground support equipment. Design

- **Id**: 3979259
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/eradrive-spacecraft-electronics-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T17:50:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:13:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3884
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Avionics & Flight Control

## Company

- **Id**: 3784512
- **Name**: EraDrive
- **Domain**: eradrive.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/eradrive2025san-franciscousaactive>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Embedded C** — Optional: no
- **SpaceWire** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T19:13:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T21:04:13Z

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