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But what if they could “plug” into a grid, the way buildings do on Earth? Instead of cables and outlets, Star Catcher is building the technology to wirelessly beam energy to spacecraft’s existing solar panels when and where they need it.\nBe an early member of a team building an entirely new energy infrastructure at scale to power the next frontier.\nStar Catcher Industries, Inc., located in Jacksonville, Florida, has an opportunity for a Senior Electrical Engineer - Digital Hardware to support the development of space-to-space power beaming spacecraft and the Star Catcher Network, its orbital power grid. \nKey Responsibilities\nLead and co-own digital-hardware architecture, detailed design, and development of FPGA/SoC-based boards, backplane interfaces, and compute module integration, from requirements analysis through schematic capture, simulation, manufacturing support, integration, and verification.\nLead high-speed digital PCB design, including multi-Gbps interfaces (e.g., PCIe, SpaceWire, Ethernet), backplane bus architectures, memory and storage interfaces, clock generation and distribution, and data acquisition/control circuits.\nPerform detailed analysis of digital and mixed-signal circuits for timing and margin, signal integrity, power integrity, thermal performance, radiation effects, EMI/EMC, and component derating; use these analyses to drive design decisions and closure at the board and system level.\nPerform worst-case circuit analysis (WCA) across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) corners to validate design robustness for high-reliability, space-flight hardware.\nSelect and qualify radiation-tolerant digital hardware components, including evaluating component tolerances and environmental impacts to ensure adequate design margin.\nDefine hardware-software interfaces and lead board bring-up/debug strategy with embedded software and firmware engineers, using lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, DC power supplies) to validate designs and troubleshoot issues at the component, board, module, and system level.\nSupport architecture trade studies and conceptual digital hardware solutions for compute and backplane systems as mission requirements evolve, including in support of new program pursuits.\nSupport risk reduction and mitigation activities related to part obsolescence, cost, producibility, and long-lead materials.\nMentor mid-level digital hardware engineers and lead technical design reviews as the team grows.\nBasic Qualifications\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nExperience: 10+ years of experience in digital hardware design, FPGA-based systems, or high-speed digital PCB design.\nExperience with backplane-based architectures (e.g., VPX, SpaceVPX, CompactPCI Serial, or similar).\nExperience with FPGA/SoC platforms and associated design toolchains.\nStrong working knowledge of high-speed digital design practices (signal integrity, power integrity, timing closure).\nDemonstrated experience performing timing analysis, SI/PI simulation, and worst-case analysis (WCA) using industry-standard tools (e.g., HyperLynx, Ansys SIwave/HFSS, Cadence, or equivalent).\nExperience with hardware integration, verification, and debug in a lab environment.\nDesired Skills\nExperience with radiation-tolerant digital design practices (TID and SEE mitigation).\nExperience selecting or qualifying compute modules for space-flight applications.\nFamiliarity with spacecraft data bus standards (e.g., SpaceWire, CCSDS, or similar).\nExperience designing, integrating, or analyzing high-speed electrical interfaces and protocols (e.g., multi-Gb Ethernet, PCIe Gen 2/3/4/5).\nExperience with Altium Designer or equivalent EDA/ECAD tools (e.g., Cadence, Siemens Xpedition).\nMATLAB, Python, or similar programming experience for modeling, analysis, or test automation.\nExperience developing part derating and stress analysis reports for high-reliability digital hardware.\nExperience with NASA/DoD life cycle and technical reviews (e.g., SRR, PDR, CDR).\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading technical design reviews.\nHelp us deploy and scale space infrastructure that will drive our utilization of space forward! We offer a highly competitive benefits package including access to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, and paid parental leave, in addition to other benefits.\nStar Catcher is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Star Catcher is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.\nAll offers of employment at Star Catcher are contingent upon results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US.\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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5630,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy & Utilities","Power Grid"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T20:33:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":87,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.866,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/star-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/star-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T23:28:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1771,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1906176},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1906176"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstar-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fstar-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fstar-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/star-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstar-catcher-senior-electrical-engineer-digital-hardware"}]}