Sr. Avionics Engineer

Company Overview

You’ll join Fortastra’s Engineering Division, responsible for the design, development, and test of flight systems across our autonomous spacecraft portfolio. The avionics function owns the electrical and computing backbone of the vehicle - flight computers, sensor interfaces, power distribution, and communications that enable autonomous operations in complex orbital environments.

The Role

Fortastra is seeking a Sr. Avionics Engineer to design and deliver spacecraft avionics hardware and embedded systems through the full product lifecycle from concept and architecture, through PCB design and bring-up, to integration on flight hardware. This is a hands-on design engineering role for an Electrical Engineer who enjoys owning boards and systems end-to-end rather than specializing narrowly in analysis or test.

You will architect avionics subsystems, design PCBs, select components, and bring up hardware in the lab. While spacecraft experience is ideal, we are also open to candidates from automotive EVs, robotics, and defense who have strong EE design backgrounds and have shipped mission-critical hardware.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of avionics hardware: concept, architecture, schematic capture, PCB layout review, bring-up, integr