Drimva

Astranis

Senior Harness Design Engineer

$135K–$235K

San Francisco +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2023

Location
San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Experience
7+ years of harness design, including 2 to 3 years at the system level.
Education
Degree in electrical, mechatronics, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on harness design experience.
Visa sponsorship
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

About the job

Owns spacecraft wire-harness design from electrical architecture and schematic capture through manufacturing release, integration, and reliability improvements.

What you'll do

  • Design harness architecture, perform electrical analysis, and create drawings and production documentation using the Zuken E3 suite.
  • Define routing, grounding, shielding, protection, and harness installation approaches across low-voltage, high-voltage, and RF interconnects.
  • Support prototype and on-vehicle testing, collaborate with manufacturing and suppliers, and lead root-cause analysis and design improvements.

What they ask for

  • Degree in electrical, mechatronics, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on harness design experience.
  • 7+ years of harness design experience, including 2 to 3 years at the system level owning vehicle-wide harness architecture.
  • Zuken E3 proficiency, including hands-on command of E3.cable, E3.smallcable, and E3.HarnessBuilder.
  • Strong electrical fundamentals, IPC/WHMA-A-620 (Class 3) and NASA workmanship standards fluency, harness documentation skills, hands-on electrical test equipment experience, and working space-environment and mechanical-routing knowledge.

Nice to have

  • Zuken E3.database librarian experience.
  • Spacecraft charging, high-voltage space design, RF harnesses, test and verification, or 3D CAD proficiency in CATIA Electrical, SolidWorks, or 3DEXPERIENCE.

Pay

$135,000 — $235,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Zuken E3, E3.cable, E3.smallcable, E3.HarnessBuilder, Cirris, digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, CATIA Electrical

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