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Avionics Engineer
Accepting applicationsEthereal Exploration Guild · Greater Bengaluru Area
Full-Time Associate CadenceFPGARFRTLVHDL
Posted
21h ago
Category
Design
Experience
Associate
Country
India
About the Guild
Founded in 2022, Ethereal Exploration Guild (The Guild) is building the World’s First Fully Reusable Medium-Lift Launch Vehicle/Rocket, Razor Crest Mk-1(RCM1).
Based in India, the team has a combined flight heritage of over 75 launches from the PSLV and GSLV fleets, and more than 300 years of collective experience in the space industry. The Guild is also developing a 700,000 sq ft facility dedicated to Upper Stage Engine Testing, which is going to be India’s largest privately developed Engine Testing Facility.
The Guild has also built and manufactured India’s First Reusable Rocket Engine.
We are looking for a self-motivated individual to join the Hands of the Guild as an Avionics Hardware Engineer.
Please apply to the job using the link provided below:
https://zfrmz.in/qkDYvqV9G5xPfewyiHYU
Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
Job-Type: On-site, Monday - Saturday
Role Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Avionics Hardware Engineer with over 3 years of hands-on experience in aerospace, launch vehicle, or other high-reliability embedded systems to join our avionics team. The engineer will be responsible for the architecture, design, development, integration, verification, qualification, and lifecycle management of flight and ground avionics hardware, spanning FPGA-based digital systems, high-speed and mixed-signal electronics, multilayer PCB design, power and signal integrity, embedded computing platforms, communication interfaces, RF/telemetry systems, and antenna subsystems.
The role requires strong hands-on expertise in taking complex avionics hardware from system requirements and architecture through detailed design, schematic capture, PCB development, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, environmental testing, qualification, and production readiness. The engineer will work closely with embedded software, FPGA, GNC, propulsion, systems engineering, and test teams to develop robust, reliable, and fault-tolerant hardware capable of operating under demanding aerospace environments, with a strong focus on design integrity, hardware-software integration, electromagnetic compatibility, signal and power integrity, manufacturability, testability, and long-term operational reliability.
Core Responsibilities:
Design, implement, integrate, and verify FPGA-based digital systems using VHDL/Verilog for avionics applications, including high-speed data acquisition, telemetry processing, command and data handling, sensor interfaces, actuator interfaces, timing systems, and deterministic real-time control logic.
Architect and develop high-reliability multilayer PCBs for flight and ground avionics, covering system partitioning, schematic capture, component selection, power architecture, PCB stack-up definition, controlled impedance, placement, routing constraints, and design reviews.
Design and integrate high-speed digital, analog, mixed-signal, and power electronics for custom avionics platforms, ensuring robust interfaces between processors, FPGAs, sensors, communication systems, and external vehicle subsystems.
Design, simulate, integrate, and validate RF systems for telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C), including transmitters, receivers, transceivers, power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, filters, couplers, switches, impedance matching networks, and RF front ends.
Design, select, and integrate vehicle antenna systems including patch, helical, blade, and conformal antennas for telemetry and GNSS applications. Perform RF link-budget analysis, antenna coverage assessment, radiation-pattern evaluation, polarization analysis, and vehicle-level antenna placement studies.
Perform signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC), thermal, and electrical stress analysis, ensuring reliable operation across demanding aerospace environments.
Apply appropriate component derating, worst-case circuit analysis, fault analysis, and reliability engineering practices to ensure hardware meets required performance and reliability objectives.
Design hardware for operation through demanding environments including launch vibration, mechanical shock, pyro shock, thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, acoustic loads, and electromagnetic environments, as applicable to the system.
Lead board bring-up, hardware integration, debugging, characterization, and performance validation using oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, vector network analysers (VNAs), logic analysers, protocol analysers, electronic loads, and other laboratory instrumentation.
Develop FPGA RTL verification environments and testbenches, execute functional and corner-case verification, support synthesis and implementation, perform static timing analysis and timing closure, and implement robust design practices for fault tolerance and reliable operation.
Develop and execute hardware verification, qualification, and acceptance test plans, including functional testing, environmental testing, thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, random vibration, mechanical shock, pyro shock, EMI/EMC, and RF performance testing, in accordance with applicable aerospace standards and program requirements.
Support hardware-software integration and system-level verification, working closely with embedded software and FPGA teams to validate interfaces, timing, data paths, communication protocols, boot and initialization sequences, and end-to-end system performance.
Define and validate electrical interfaces, power distribution, grounding, shielding, signal routing, harnessing, and connector architectures for flight and ground test systems.
Work closely with software, FPGA, GNC, mechanical, propulsion, systems engineering, and test teams to define electrical interfaces and resolve complex hardware integration issues across avionics and vehicle systems.
Develop and maintain controlled hardware documentation, including system schematics, PCB layouts, bills of materials (BOMs), electrical interface control documents (ICDs), design specifications, verification procedures, test plans, qualification reports, and acceptance test reports.
Maintain rigorous configuration control, design traceability, revision management, and engineering change processes throughout the hardware development and qualification lifecycle.
Support engine and vehicle ground testing, integrated system tests, and critical test campaigns, providing hardware integration, real-time troubleshooting, anomaly investigation, failure analysis, and post-test assessment.
Perform root-cause analysis of hardware failures, intermittent faults, signal integrity issues, RF anomalies, power system failures, and hardware-software integration problems, driving corrective actions through verified resolution.
Contribute to the development of reusable and scalable avionics hardware architectures, with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, testability, manufacturability, modularity, and long-term platform reuse.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Avionics, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
3+ years of hands-on experience in avionics, embedded electronics, FPGA, or hardware design.
Strong experience in FPGA development using VHDL/Verilog and relevant vendor toolchains.
Hands-on experience with multilayer PCB design using Altium, Cadence, Xpedition, or equivalent.
Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, EMC/EMI and high-speed interfaces.
Experience with board bring-up, hardware debugging, integration and characterization. Proficiency with oscilloscopes, signal generators, electronic loads and other electronic test equipment.
Ability to develop schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, ICDs and hardware test documentation.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
Ability to work efficiently with FPGA, software, GNC, propulsion, mechanical, systems and test teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Avionics, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering or related field.
Experience in launch vehicles, spacecraft, defense or other high-reliability aerospace systems.
Experience with RF systems, VNA, spectrum analyzers, S-parameters, impedance matching and antenna integration.
Knowledge of WCCA, FMEA, component derating and hardware reliability practices.
Experience with vibration, shock, thermal, TVAC and EMI/EMC qualification testing.
Experience with hardware-in-loop, qualification and acceptance testing.
Familiarity with aerospace configuration management, design reviews and hardware qualification processes.
Experience developing mission-critical or safety-critical hardware.
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Founded in 2022, Ethereal Exploration Guild (The Guild) is building the World’s First Fully Reusable Medium-Lift Launch Vehicle/Rocket, Razor Crest Mk-1(RCM1).
Based in India, the team has a combined flight heritage of over 75 launches from the PSLV and GSLV fleets, and more than 300 years of collective experience in the space industry. The Guild is also developing a 700,000 sq ft facility dedicated to Upper Stage Engine Testing, which is going to be India’s largest privately developed Engine Testing Facility.
The Guild has also built and manufactured India’s First Reusable Rocket Engine.
We are looking for a self-motivated individual to join the Hands of the Guild as an Avionics Hardware Engineer.
Please apply to the job using the link provided below:
https://zfrmz.in/qkDYvqV9G5xPfewyiHYU
Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
Job-Type: On-site, Monday - Saturday
Role Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Avionics Hardware Engineer with over 3 years of hands-on experience in aerospace, launch vehicle, or other high-reliability embedded systems to join our avionics team. The engineer will be responsible for the architecture, design, development, integration, verification, qualification, and lifecycle management of flight and ground avionics hardware, spanning FPGA-based digital systems, high-speed and mixed-signal electronics, multilayer PCB design, power and signal integrity, embedded computing platforms, communication interfaces, RF/telemetry systems, and antenna subsystems.
The role requires strong hands-on expertise in taking complex avionics hardware from system requirements and architecture through detailed design, schematic capture, PCB development, prototyping, hardware bring-up, debugging, environmental testing, qualification, and production readiness. The engineer will work closely with embedded software, FPGA, GNC, propulsion, systems engineering, and test teams to develop robust, reliable, and fault-tolerant hardware capable of operating under demanding aerospace environments, with a strong focus on design integrity, hardware-software integration, electromagnetic compatibility, signal and power integrity, manufacturability, testability, and long-term operational reliability.
Core Responsibilities:
Design, implement, integrate, and verify FPGA-based digital systems using VHDL/Verilog for avionics applications, including high-speed data acquisition, telemetry processing, command and data handling, sensor interfaces, actuator interfaces, timing systems, and deterministic real-time control logic.
Architect and develop high-reliability multilayer PCBs for flight and ground avionics, covering system partitioning, schematic capture, component selection, power architecture, PCB stack-up definition, controlled impedance, placement, routing constraints, and design reviews.
Design and integrate high-speed digital, analog, mixed-signal, and power electronics for custom avionics platforms, ensuring robust interfaces between processors, FPGAs, sensors, communication systems, and external vehicle subsystems.
Design, simulate, integrate, and validate RF systems for telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C), including transmitters, receivers, transceivers, power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, filters, couplers, switches, impedance matching networks, and RF front ends.
Design, select, and integrate vehicle antenna systems including patch, helical, blade, and conformal antennas for telemetry and GNSS applications. Perform RF link-budget analysis, antenna coverage assessment, radiation-pattern evaluation, polarization analysis, and vehicle-level antenna placement studies.
Perform signal integrity (SI), power integrity (PI), electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility (EMI/EMC), thermal, and electrical stress analysis, ensuring reliable operation across demanding aerospace environments.
Apply appropriate component derating, worst-case circuit analysis, fault analysis, and reliability engineering practices to ensure hardware meets required performance and reliability objectives.
Design hardware for operation through demanding environments including launch vibration, mechanical shock, pyro shock, thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, acoustic loads, and electromagnetic environments, as applicable to the system.
Lead board bring-up, hardware integration, debugging, characterization, and performance validation using oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, vector network analysers (VNAs), logic analysers, protocol analysers, electronic loads, and other laboratory instrumentation.
Develop FPGA RTL verification environments and testbenches, execute functional and corner-case verification, support synthesis and implementation, perform static timing analysis and timing closure, and implement robust design practices for fault tolerance and reliable operation.
Develop and execute hardware verification, qualification, and acceptance test plans, including functional testing, environmental testing, thermal cycling, thermal vacuum, random vibration, mechanical shock, pyro shock, EMI/EMC, and RF performance testing, in accordance with applicable aerospace standards and program requirements.
Support hardware-software integration and system-level verification, working closely with embedded software and FPGA teams to validate interfaces, timing, data paths, communication protocols, boot and initialization sequences, and end-to-end system performance.
Define and validate electrical interfaces, power distribution, grounding, shielding, signal routing, harnessing, and connector architectures for flight and ground test systems.
Work closely with software, FPGA, GNC, mechanical, propulsion, systems engineering, and test teams to define electrical interfaces and resolve complex hardware integration issues across avionics and vehicle systems.
Develop and maintain controlled hardware documentation, including system schematics, PCB layouts, bills of materials (BOMs), electrical interface control documents (ICDs), design specifications, verification procedures, test plans, qualification reports, and acceptance test reports.
Maintain rigorous configuration control, design traceability, revision management, and engineering change processes throughout the hardware development and qualification lifecycle.
Support engine and vehicle ground testing, integrated system tests, and critical test campaigns, providing hardware integration, real-time troubleshooting, anomaly investigation, failure analysis, and post-test assessment.
Perform root-cause analysis of hardware failures, intermittent faults, signal integrity issues, RF anomalies, power system failures, and hardware-software integration problems, driving corrective actions through verified resolution.
Contribute to the development of reusable and scalable avionics hardware architectures, with emphasis on reliability, maintainability, testability, manufacturability, modularity, and long-term platform reuse.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Avionics, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.
3+ years of hands-on experience in avionics, embedded electronics, FPGA, or hardware design.
Strong experience in FPGA development using VHDL/Verilog and relevant vendor toolchains.
Hands-on experience with multilayer PCB design using Altium, Cadence, Xpedition, or equivalent.
Strong understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, EMC/EMI and high-speed interfaces.
Experience with board bring-up, hardware debugging, integration and characterization. Proficiency with oscilloscopes, signal generators, electronic loads and other electronic test equipment.
Ability to develop schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, ICDs and hardware test documentation.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
Ability to work efficiently with FPGA, software, GNC, propulsion, mechanical, systems and test teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Avionics, Electronics, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering or related field.
Experience in launch vehicles, spacecraft, defense or other high-reliability aerospace systems.
Experience with RF systems, VNA, spectrum analyzers, S-parameters, impedance matching and antenna integration.
Knowledge of WCCA, FMEA, component derating and hardware reliability practices.
Experience with vibration, shock, thermal, TVAC and EMI/EMC qualification testing.
Experience with hardware-in-loop, qualification and acceptance testing.
Familiarity with aerospace configuration management, design reviews and hardware qualification processes.
Experience developing mission-critical or safety-critical hardware.
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