What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Electrical Engineer – Space Hardware position at EVONA?
Senior Electrical Engineer – Space Hardware
Durham, NC | $130k–$170k Equity | On-site
EVONA are partnered with an early-stage Space start-up developing a new generation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites.
They've proven their core technology, raised their Seed round and are now moving into the next phase: building the flight hardware for their first satellites.
They're still a small team of around 20 people, so this isn't a role where you'll own one circuit on a mature program. They're looking for an Electrical Engineer who can take complex electronics from a blank sheet of paper through schematic, PCB design, build, bring-up and test.
You do not need previous satellite or antenna experience.
We're interested in engineers coming from aerospace, defence, avionics, radar, RF, robotics, autonomous systems or other high-reliability hardware environments who want to apply that experience to spacecraft.
The opportunity
You'll take significant ownership of the electronics that sit behind a novel space-based imaging system, working directly alongside RF, antenna, software and mechanical engineers.
That means getting hands-on across:
- Electrical architecture and component selection
- Schematic capture and complex multilayer PCB design
- Mixed-signal, high-speed digital, power and RF-adjacent electronics
- PCB stack-ups, grounding, impedance control and signal/power integrity
- Prototype builds, board bring-up, debugging and troubleshooting
- EMI/EMC and design for reliability
- Hardware integration and system-level testing
- Taking prototype electronics towards flight-ready hardware
What We're Looking For
- 5 years of hands-on electrical/electronics hardware design
- Proven ownership of multiple PCBs from requirements → schematic → layout → fabrication → bring-up/test
- Strong experience with Altium, Cadence/OrCAD, KiCad or similar
- Experience designing complex multilayer PCBs
- Strong mixed-signal and/or high-speed digital electronics experience
- Hands-on laboratory experience debugging real hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and other electrical test equipment
- Comfortable working across disciplines and independently solving hardware problems
- Experience building hardware where reliability really matters
Experience with spacecraft, avionics, radar, RF electronics, defence systems, FPGAs, SI/PI, EMI/EMC, radiation, environmental qualification or high-reliability electronics would be particularly valuable — but isn't essential.
Why join?
This is an opportunity to move out of a large engineering organisation and into an environment where you genuinely own the hardware you design.
You'll join early enough to influence the electrical architecture, make key design decisions and follow your boards all the way from initial concept through the lab and ultimately into orbit.
As the company grows and builds out its engineering organisation, there is significant scope for your responsibilities to grow with it.
Package
$130,000–$170,000 base equity, benefits and relocation support
Durham, North Carolina | Full-time onsite
Salary : $130,000 - $170,000