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As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.\nSummary\nThe Electrical Engineering Chief Engineer will provide technical leadership for the design, development, integration, and verification of spaceborne electrical and avionics systems. In this role, you will serve as the technical authority for spacecraft electrical architectures across multiple space programs. You will define component and system level electrical requirements, guide multi-disciplinary engineering teams, ensure design integrity through all lifecycle phases, and interface directly with internal leadership to achieve mission and business objectives. As a leader in technology development, you will be responsible for visionary new product development including research and development into emerging technology, prototyping new designs, generating basic software and firmware as needed to create proof of concept, and providing technical oversight to the product design team to develop concepts into flight qualified hardware solutions.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will work closely with the Director of Electrical Engineering, technical leads, Systems Engineering, and Program Management to deliver robust, flight-ready electrical systems.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the technical baseline and architectural direction for electrical and avionics systems across Hardware, Firmware, Harnessing, Launch Vehicle Systems, and Spacecraft Systems.\nDefine and own spacecraft and launch vehicle electrical architectures, including power generation/distribution/storage, command and data handling, communication interfaces, and harnessing.\nEstablish, maintain, and enforce electrical engineering design standards, processes, and best practices.\nLead the development, allocation, and management of system and subsystem electrical requirements, ensuring traceability, verification, and validation.\nLead and chair major design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR) and technical risk assessments; sign off on design maturity and readiness.\nDrive the common modular architecture effort to maximize reuse and commonality across launch vehicles and spacecraft.\nProvide technical direction and oversight to electrical, power, avionics, FPGA/ASIC, firmware, and harness teams; review and approve key design artifacts, analyses, schematics, ICDs, power budgets, and test plans.\nLead trade studies (power architectures, redundancy, component selection, radiation tolerance, derating, thermal/electrical interfaces) to optimize performance, cost, schedule, and risk.\nEnsure compliance with space environmental requirements (radiation, EMI/EMC, thermal, vacuum, launch loads) and guide EEE parts selection, qualification, and derating.\nDefine and guide integration and test strategies, including functional testing, hardware-in-the-loop, environmental qualification (vibration, shock, TVAC, EMI), and system-level verification.\nSupport failure analysis, anomaly resolution, and root-cause/corrective action during development, integration, test, and on-orbit operations.\nCollaborate closely with Systems Engineering, Mechanical, Software, RF, GNC, Mission Assurance, and other disciplines to ensure balanced, integrated vehicle designs.\nSupport department management with product/technology roadmaps, IRAD direction, proposal technical volumes, BOEs, risk assessments, and new business capture.\nMentor and develop engineers at all levels, promoting rigorous engineering practices and a culture of technical excellence.\nContinuously improve internal processes, tools, analysis methods, and design-for-manufacturing/test practices.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.\n15+ years of progressive experience in electrical or avionics engineering for complex aerospace systems (launch vehicles and/or spacecraft), including significant technical leadership responsibility.\nDemonstrated experience as technical authority or chief/lead engineer on flight hardware programs, owning architecture and design integrity through development, integration, test, and flight.\nStrong technical depth in spacecraft/launch vehicle power systems, avionics/data handling (including common buses such as SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet), harnessing, and related disciplines.\nProven experience with EEE parts selection and derating, radiation effects (TID, SEE) and mitigation, requirements management, and space environmental qualification.\nTrack record leading multi-disciplinary teams, conducting trade studies, resolving complex technical issues, and balancing technical performance with cost and schedule constraints.\nExperience taking designs from concept through high TRL / flight qualification, including PCB assemblies, firmware, and system-level integration and test.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare and present complex technical material to engineering teams, leadership, and external customers.\nAbility to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines.\nDesired\nMaster’s Degree or Ph.D. preferred.\nDirect experience with modular avionics architectures and design-for-reuse across multiple vehicle platforms.\nHands-on background in board-level design, FPGA/ASIC development, or harness design and analysis.\nExperience supporting on-orbit operations, anomaly resolution, and post-flight analysis.\nFamiliarity with configuration management, requirements management tools, and technical baseline control in a flight hardware environment.\nPrior experience providing technical content for proposals and supporting new business capture.\nKnowledge of relevant industry standards (MIL-STD, ECSS, NASA, or equivalent) and best practices for space electrical systems.\nAbility and willingness to obtain a security clearance if required.\nFirefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, relocation benefits, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.\nFirefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; 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