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Join Airbus CRISA as a Hardware Design Engineer in Tres Cantos, Madrid area, on a permanent, full-time basis. Contribute to exciting space business projects including Launchers, Earth Exploration, and Space Exploration by developing and designing electronic units for flight and ground equipment.

Requirements

  • Education: Master degree level (or equivalent) in engineering or science discipline.
  • Experience: Proven experience in the development of Power, Analog, or Digital electronics functions and using advanced laboratory instrumentation.
  • Languages: Mid-level in both written and spoken English and Spanish.
  • Technical Skills: Knowledge of design tools such as Mentor, LTSpice, Matlab, and SIMetrix-SIMPLIS, along with a sound mathematical basis for electronic design analysis.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Electronic Design: Develop complete electronic equipment from requirements analysis to final delivery, ensuring architecture, simulation, and robustness.
  • Testing and Characterization: Conduct laboratory and prototype testing, define board test procedures, and characterize the design.
  • Cross-functional Support: Support Technical, Test, Radiation, Packaging, and PCB CAD teams to ensure compliance, radiation resistance, and thermal/mechanical robustness.
  • Documentation and Review: Document designs and support project managers and technical managers during major project reviews and non-conformance resolutions.
  • Potential transition routes: People from electronics technician, systems engineer, or embedded software engineer roles may bring relevant hardware and simulation skills, alongside meeting the engineering degree and language requirements.

Job description

Job Description:

Several positions of Hardware Design Engineer are now open in Airbus CRISA (Airbus Defense & Space) in Tres Cantos (Madrid area) for different Space business: Launchers, Earth Exploration (Copernicus), Space Exploration (Artemis), Commercial (Telecommunications Satellites). This is an opportunity to join a diverse and dynamic Technical Team focused on:

• Shape the future based on innovation of our products, new technologies and way of working,
• State of the art product consolidation,
• Continuous Performance improvement.

Definitely, we are moved by our passion to make it fly!

In accordance with the proven Candidate skills, she/he will be part of Power, Analog or Digital team and will report/be supported by the relevant Skill Manager.

Functionally, the Candidate is also part of the Project, with the main mission of developing/designing electronic units for flight and ground equipment to achieve the unit delivery in accordance with project schedule, cost and quality requirements. In a day-to-day basis, she/he will report to Project Manager.

Within each project, the tasks are coordinated by a Technical Responsible in charge of direct reporting to the Project Manager.

The Engineer’s tasks comprise the complete development of an electronic equipment: from the analysis of the requirements to the final delivery of the flight model once accepted. The successful applicant will be in charge of the following tasks:

• Support to the Technical and Test Managers for the analysis of project requirements.
• Architecture analysis at electronic function or module level.
• Detailed electronics design based on electrical simulations at function level.
• Assure of the robustness of the design by means of: part stress analysis, worst case analysis, failure modes and criticality analysis, power budget analysis and Double Insulation requirements compliance.
• In case of fligth design, to support to Radiation Team to assure the design robustness within the radiation space environment including Single Events Effects (SEE).
• Documentation of the design.
• Laboratory and prototype testing.
• Assure the mechanical and thermal design robustness by supporting the Packaging Team.
• Support to PCB CAD team during the design of the PCB by the reviewing of the PCB layout.
• Board test procedures definition.
• Support to the Technical Manager in the main project reviews (Requirement Review, Preliminary and Architecture Review, Critical Design Review...)
• Characterization of the design.
• Support to Test Team for the acceptance of flight equipment, ensuring a close monitoring of any change, evolution or discrepancy from the agreed baseline in the characterization phase.
• Support to the Technical Manager in the resolution of boards NCRs (Non-conformance) raised during qualification or acceptance test campaign.

Apply now
Airbus

Hardware Design Engineer

Madrid, Tres Cantos

Background and skills set required

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
• Educated to Master degree level (or equivalent) in engineering or science discipline.
• Proven experience in the development of any of the following functions: Power, Analog or Digital electronics.
• Proven experience using advanced laboratory instrumentation.
• Good knowledge of design methodologies for space application and tools (Mentor, LTSPice, Matlab, SIMetrix-SIMPLIS).
• Sound mathematical basis for its application to the electronic design analysis.
• English and Spanish must be at least mid-level, both written and spoken.
• Good communication and reporting skills.
• Strong team working and cooperation spirit.
• Independent and accurate way of working.

Other recommended skills are:

• Digital mindset (automation of tasks, scripting, use of digital design tools and simulators).
• Knowledge of space environment constraints.
• To be familiar with Agile methodologies.
• For Candidates with skills on Power & Analog electronics: experience on designs using digital control techniques.
• For Candidates with skills on Digital electronics: experience on designs based on hardware-software interfaces.
• Fast prototyping techniques.
• Happy to learn and teach others.

Feel like you can't tick some boxes above? If you have most of the skills and experience that we're looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Computadoras, Redes e Ingeniería, SA

Contract Type:
Permanent

Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Elec.Electron.&Electromag,Optics&Optron.

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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