CesiumAstro
Senior Staff Component Engineer
Melbourne, FL · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 12 years of relevant prior experience as a component engineer.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Leads EEE component selection, qualification, verification, supplier evaluation, and failure analysis for aerospace and commercial space products.
What you'll do
- Define customer testing and qualification requirements; lead high-reliability EEE parts selection, qualification, standardization, and performance verification.
- Develop component roadmaps and parts plans, evaluate standards compliance, and support aerospace programs and product upgrades.
- Review screening and test data, investigate component risks and obsolescence, and coordinate with engineering, reliability, quality, and suppliers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Knowledge of component selection, qualification, screening, and derating for military and aerospace.
- Familiarity with managing new part requests, part objects, and attributes in a Product Lifecycle Management System.
- Direct experience with parts plans and screening and qualification for high-volume satellite constellations.
Nice to have
- Technical leadership mentoring component engineers and educating designers.
- Familiarity with reliability analyses, radiation effects, tin whisker mitigation, or EEE component manufacturing.
Tools
EEE-INST-002, AEC, TOR, JEDEC, Product Lifecycle Management System, FMECA, WCA, FPGAs
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