Staff Electrical Engineer - RPU Unit Lead
Job Description
🚀 We’re hiring: Staff Electrical Engineer – RPU Unit Lead | Austin, TX
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I’m looking to connect with experienced Electrical Engineers and Hardware Technical Leads with backgrounds in software-defined radios, digital electronics, and space hardware for a technical leadership opportunity in Austin.
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This is a hands-on Unit Lead / Responsible Engineer role focused on advanced Reconfigurable Processing Units (RPUs) — complex VPX-based electronics incorporating SDRs, single-board computers, power modules, RF front ends, modems, and software.
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You’ll take technical ownership of the complete product, leading it from architecture and design through integration, qualification, production, and flight readiness.
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🛰️ What you’ll be responsible for:
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• Leading end-to-end development of complex RPU / VPX-based electronics systems
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• Owning architecture, design, prototyping, integration, test and flight readiness
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• Coordinating teams across RF, digital, power, mechanical, thermal, software and systems engineering
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• Developing payload control schemes, internal data interfaces and command & telemetry architecture
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• Supporting firmware/software integration and embedded hardware/software interactions
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• Leading environmental qualification including TVAC, vibration, shock and EMC
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• Owning requirements, ICDs, test plans, verification matrices and design reviews
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• Driving root cause analysis, anomaly resolution and technical risk mitigation
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• Transitioning flight hardware into scalable production
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• Acting as a key technical interface with customers, program leadership and spacecraft teams
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🔧 What we’re looking for:
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• 8+ years of electronics hardware development experience
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• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field
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• Hands-on experience with technologies such as software-defined radios (SDRs)
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• Experience leading or mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams
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• Strong systems engineering and requirements flowdown knowledge
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• Experience with verification/validation and configuration management
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• Strong technical, project leadership and communication skills
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Experience with VPX hardware, payload control systems, digital interfaces, command & data handling, DSP, beamforming, embedded firmware, flight qualification, or radiation-tolerant electronics would be particularly valuable.
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Previous experience as a Responsible Engineer, Technical Lead, IPT Lead, or Chief Engineer on flight hardware would also be highly relevant.
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📍 Austin, Texas
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🏢 Full-time | On-site
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🛰️ Space Electronics / Reconfigurable Processing Units
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This is a strong opportunity for someone who wants to combine hands-on electronics expertise with full product ownership and multidisciplinary technical leadership.
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Due to U.S. space technology export regulations, candidates must meet the applicable U.S. export-control eligibility requirements for the position.
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If your background includes SDRs, VPX, digital hardware, space electronics, payload systems, embedded systems, or flight hardware development, I’d love to hear from you.
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📩 Message me directly or send across your resume for more information.
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