Senior Electrical Engineer

Title: Senior Electrical Engineer

Segment: Voyager - Corporate

Location: Middleburg

Job Type: Full Time - Onsite

Relocation Eligible: No

Company Description: Voyager is an innovative defense, national security and space technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.

Position Description: Voyager Technologies is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer. They are responsible for designing, testing, integrating, and operating spaceflight avionics and electrical hardware and supporting space services. This senior role plays a crucial part in advancing hardware on various space-based programs, ensuring the reliability and performance of electrical systems for space applications.

Responsibilities:

Design & Development

• Lead the design and development of space-qualified electronics, including power supplies, power distribution systems, command and data handling systems, electromagnetic filters, sensors, integrated flight computers, electrical cables, harnesses, and other digital and analog circuits.
• Oversee PCB design, including schematic drawing layout and routing, symbol and footprint creation, and generation of fabrication files and assembly drawings.
• Author technical documents such as assembly instructions, test procedures, interface requirements, and test and analysis reports.

Testing

• Utilize digital multi-meters, oscilloscopes, waveform/function generators, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, simulators, power switches, electronic load banks, break-out-boxes, and associated test and measurement equipment to conduct electrical development and troubleshooting when needed.
• Perform and/or oversee qualification and acceptance testing on batteries, capacitors, containment vessels, and other safety-critical flight hardware.
• Review payload designs and provide feedback to payload developers to ensure compatibility and compliance with Voyager Space Exploration and NASA requirements.

Reporting

• Support proposal efforts by providing solutions for proposal challenges, documenting technical approaches, and contributing to cost and schedule estimates.
• Deliver regular status reports and updates to Engineering management and Program/Project managers.
• Maintain inventory and traceability controls for electrical components, sub-components, systems, lab tools, test equipment, and electrical systems.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Exhibits company Values and Behaviors and holds project and mission managers accountable to same.
• Responsible for traveling up to 30%, both foreign & domestic, to launch sites, customer facilities, and NASA/Government centers.
• Responsible for working a flexible schedule to support launch & integration operations (to include weekends and/or holidays).
• Prioritize workload to ensure timely development, testing, and delivery of flight and non-flight (ground system) hardware.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines, Quality Assurance, Flight Operations, Systems Verifications, and Safety throughout the development, manufacturing, inspection, testing, and qualification process for hardware.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience:

Required

• 4-7 years of experience in electrical design and development.
• Experience in designing, testing, and integrating electrical systems for space applications.

Preferred

• Experience in the Space Hardware industry preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field required.
• Master's degree or equivalent preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• The work is sedentary, requiring low levels of physical activity. A candidate should be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• The workplace operates under core working hours between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. However, work schedules may vary based on business needs. If a schedule needs to be changed, managers will notify their employees.
• The work requires close visual acuity to perform activities. A candidate should be able to do the following activities without issue: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes; operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
• The work will require the employee to make repetitive motions and manipulate objects using their arms, hands, and fingers. The employee will be required to express and exchange ideas using spoken instructions accurately, loudly, and quickly. The employee will also need to discriminate sound at normal speaking levels without correction and can receive detailed information through oral communications.

Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Innovation
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving
• Detailed Oriented
• Computer Literacy
• Math

Application Deadline: August 31, 2025

Please click "Apply" to submit your application.

Voyager offers a comprehensive, total compensation package, which includes competitive salary, a discretionary annual bonus plan, paid time off (PTO), a comprehensive health benefit package, retirement savings, wellness program, and various other benefits. When you join our team, you're not just an employee; you become part of a dynamic community dedicated to innovation and excellence.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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.

Voyager is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.