About this role
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We are looking for a full-time, experienced electronics engineer with good insights in product development to join our Glasgow team in Scotland.
As we expand and improve our line of satellite sub-system capabilities at AAC Clyde Space, we are looking for creative, driven, and enthusiastic electronics engineer to join our team. You will assist in developing, testing, and deploying our world-class satellite technology.
This opportunity is ideal for someone looking for responsibility and development opportunities of a technical nature in a dynamic, fast paced working environment with exciting projects and challenging schedules. You will be expected to work on projects of different sizes and complexities, ranging from actuator control systems to optical communication devices.
You will have proven experience from regulated industries with the desire to grow your knowledge and expertise, while adding value to our current ways of working. You will be happy to get involved and learn from the project! We also support activities across the AAC Clyde Space group so there is opportunities for cross-site collaboration.
It is an exciting opportunity to be part of projects where your work literally ends up in space!
Key Responsibilities:
1. Design of Analog and Digital electronic systems for space applications. Product lines include laser communication, attitude control systems, reaction wheels, star trackers, sun sensors, magnetometers, magnetorquers
2. Improve current designs and undertake design reviews with the rest of the team
3. Develop and maintain technical design documentation including requirements capture, technical descriptions and user manuals
4. Deliver the company’s projects allocated to budget, schedule, and quality constraints
5. Contribute towards information flow to project teams and other stakeholders
6. Deliver work tasks and assignments in accordance with required standards and compliance requirements
7. Guiding the Test team on how to test, debug and troubleshoot existing and new product designs.
8. Support other engineering teams as required
Skills required:
9. Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent work experience
10. Evident industry experience of applying electronics engineering to products and applications
11. Experience with Analog and Digital electronics, various communication protocols (e.g. CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, USB)
12. Electronics hardware design experience including component selection, circuit design and layout
13. Proven knowledge and experience using schematic capture and PCB design software.
14. Design for Manufacture and Design for Test awareness
15. Hands on diagnosis and debug of new and existing electronic designs
16. Knowledge of Python, C/C++
17. Able to manage time, work within a multicultural team and work independently
18. Ability to meet tight deadlines and progress several projects in parallel
19. Demonstrates the ability to successfully resolve technical issues
20. Demonstrates ownership of problems and works towards finding solutions
21. Competent IT skills including Microsoft software
22. Proficient in English, both verbally and written
Skills desired:
23. Experience in Aerospace and/or CubeSat sector
24. Experience with circuit simulation (SPICE)
25. Experience with Altium Designer
26. Understanding of electronics design for harsh environments (thermal, radiation, vibration)
27. Knowledge of VHDL and/or EMC
28. Experience in working with other engineering fields like optics, mechanics, software
29. Relevant space industry experience
30. Previous experience working with small/medium sized companies
ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE
AAC Clyde Space, a leading New Space company, specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.
Our growing capabilities bring together three divisions:
31. – delivering data from space directly to customers
32. Space missions – turnkey solutions that empower customers to streamline their space missions
33. Horizon Technologies, Orbcomm, OHB Sweden, Intuitive Machines, Orbital Micro Systems, the United States Airforce Academy, UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and NASA.
AAC Clyde Space Group consists of the parent company AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) and subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA. Our main operations are in these five countries, with partner networks in Japan and South Korea.
AAC Clyde Space’s share is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.
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