Staff Electrical Engineer (RPU Unit Lead)

Join CesiumAstro, a fast-paced startup focused on advanced spaceborne payloads. As a Staff Electrical Engineer, you will lead the design, development, integration, test, and flight qualification of our Reconfigurable Processing Unit (RPU) product line. You will be responsible for the technical definition and execution of a new RPU product, coordinating a multidisciplinary technical team, and managing all flight qualification activities. This role requires strong technical knowledge, project management skills, and excellent communication abilities.

• Lead the design, development, integration, test, and flight qualification of advanced spaceborne payloads, specifically focusing on the Reconfigurable Processing Unit (RPU) product line.
• Coordinate and direct a multidisciplinary engineering team to ensure consistent and timely technical execution, holding schedule accountability for the box development.
• Manage all flight qualification activities, including environmental test planning, margin assessment, and final acceptance testing, and own the transition to volume production.

• Leadership experience, including mentoring or leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Strong knowledge of systems engineering practices, requirements flowdown, verification/validation, and configuration management
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 8 years of engineering experience in electronics hardware development
• Hands-on experience with related technologies such as software-defined radios
• Demonstrated understanding of payload control systems, digital interfaces, command & data handling, and embedded hardware/software interactions
• Proven experience executing or overseeing flight qualification and environmental test campaigns (TVAC, vib/shock, EMC, radiation considerations)
• Experience managing hardware/software product development projects
• Experience with radiation-tolerant design
• Experience with high-rate manufacturing, rapid development cycles, and/or NewSpace ecosystems
• Prior role as a Responsible Engineer, Technical Lead, IPT Lead, or Chief Engineer on flight hardware
• Background in digital signal processing, beamforming algorithms, or embedded firmware for payload control
• Experience mentoring less-experienced project engineers and design engineers in associated discipline
• High energy and a “get it done” attitude