Firefly Aerospace
Chief Engineer - Electrical Engineering
Cedar Park, TX · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years; progressive experience in electrical or avionics engineering for complex aerospace systems, including significant technical leadership responsibility.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual 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
Provides technical leadership and architectural direction for electrical and avionics systems across spacecraft and launch vehicle programs, from concept through flight qualification.
What you'll do
- Own electrical and avionics architectures, technical baselines, requirements, and design standards across programs.
- Lead design reviews, trade studies, integration and verification, and resolution of technical risks and anomalies.
- Direct and mentor multidisciplinary engineering teams and support technology roadmaps, proposals, and new business capture.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a closely related field.
- 15+ years of progressive electrical or avionics engineering experience on complex aerospace systems, including significant technical leadership.
- Experience as a technical authority or chief/lead engineer on flight hardware programs, owning architecture and design integrity through development, integration, test, and flight.
- Strong technical depth in spacecraft/launch vehicle power systems, avionics/data handling, harnessing, EEE parts selection and derating, radiation effects, requirements management, and space environmental qualification.
Nice to have
- Master’s Degree or Ph.D.
- Experience with modular avionics architectures, board-level design, FPGA/ASIC development, harness design and analysis, or on-orbit operations.
Tools
SpaceWire, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet, FPGA/ASIC, PCB
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