Senior Electrical Engineer - Digital Hardware

Power the future of space at Star Catcher

Star Catcher is building the first energy grid in space to power the orbital economy.

Today’s spacecraft must generate all of their own power, which caps what they can do and how long they can operate. 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.

Be an early member of a team building an entirely new energy infrastructure at scale to power the next frontier.

Star 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead 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.

• Lead 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.

• Perform 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.

• Perform worst-case circuit analysis (WCA) across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) corners to validate design robustness for high-reliability, space-flight hardware.

• Select and qualify radiation-tolerant digital hardware components, including evaluating component tolerances and environmental impacts to ensure adequate design margin.

• Define 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.

• Support architecture trade studies and conceptual digital hardware solutions for compute and backplane systems as mission requirements evolve, including in support of new program pursuits.

• Support risk reduction and mitigation activities related to part obsolescence, cost, producibility, and long-lead materials.