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About the job

A very small space-technology startup that plans to run AI inference on satellites is hiring its first dedicated electrical engineer. Candidates from fresh graduates to engineers with a decade or more of experience are welcome, and the position includes ownership of the computer that will fly on the company’s first demonstration spacecraft.

Responsibilities

Take full ownership of the onboard flight computer destined for the first demonstration satellite, which is the top priority for your first three months

Breadboard, power up and troubleshoot hardware at the Los Angeles lab, working side by side with the engineering lead

Work with contract server manufacturers on the electronics and computing hardware of the larger production satellite

Influence high-speed interconnect decisions, with NVLink and SerDes among the options, and assess photonic and optical links

Write firmware and payload platform software as the need arises

What you bring

Hands-on electrical engineering across custom board design: schematics, high-speed PCB layout, bring-up and fault isolation

Grounding in high-speed digital design plus signal and power integrity

At least a year in a venture-backed, high-growth startup where you built things from zero

A degree in electrical or computer engineering, or equivalent experience

Bonus points for space or radiation-tolerant hardware, chip-level work on GPUs or SoCs, optical networking, or time spent working with contract manufacturers

C/C++ and Python for firmware and tooling

On-site in Los Angeles, five days a week. Unable to sponsor or transfer visas.