Cimarron is seeking a Senior Avionics Hardware Design Engineer to support our partnership with a commercial aerospace company at their rocket production facility in Briggs, TX. In this role you will leverage your applicable experience and expertise to develop electrical components for launch vehicles and spacecraft systems. In this role, you will be responsible for developing the designs, defining requirements, and actively participating in integration, testing and qualification activities throughout the hardware development cycle. You will be part of the avionics team and will work closely with a variety of teams across the company in a fast paced, exciting environment.

Through this partnership, Cimarron supplies skilled technical talent in support of our customer's advanced launch and space systems. This customer designs and builds small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles for government and commercial missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Together, our teams leverage advanced carbon composite structures, patented propulsion technologies, and common components across platforms to move fast, improve reliability, and deliver payloads at a lower cost.

Key Duties:

Develop new features and functionality as part of the design team for our common avionics platform used across launch vehicles and spacecraft applications.
Participate in technical trade studies, requirement capture, conceptual and detail design activities for new and existing designs.
Create and own schematic capture and PCB layout activities, rapid prototyping, EEE component selection, and execute electrical simulations and analyses to support flight, qualification, and test lab PCB assemblies.
Work with experts across teams and departments (systems, mechanical, software, test engineering) to develop tightly integrated, high-performance hardware.
Understand and implement aerospace guidelines for development and design of electronic assemblies.

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

Due to facility security requirements, only U.S. citizens or permanent residents are eligible for consideration at this time.
5+ years of PCB design, hardware systems design, and/or integration experience.
Skilled in schematic capture and digital, analog, and power circuit PCB layout.
Competent at end-to-end definition, requirement generation, block-diagram design, component selection and circuit simulations.
Strong electrical troubleshooting experience with the ability to drive problems to root-cause and closure.
Experience with the usage of test equipment to verify component and circuit function.
Excellent organizational skills, and experience working with vendors.
Ability to work well with others, be proactive, and execute with minimal guidance.
Bachelor of Science (BS) in electrical engineering or equivalent.

Desired Skills, Experience, and Education:

Experience developing and testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software.
Experience with spacecraft avionics systems design, development, production, test, and operations.
Experience using Altium (or similar tools) to design complex aerospace boards.
Experience in the V-model design methodology.
Understanding of design for space radiation environments and its effects on electronic components.
Experience working with a variety of sensor types and their associated analog and digital interfaces.
Familiar with NASA GEVS or SMC-016 environmental testing.

Business Profile:

Cimarron is a global solutions company with a strategic partnering approach to satisfying customer-driven requirements. We ensure customer success with a modern approach and experienced leadership. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Cimarron is fueled by highly skilled employees, developing new innovative technologies, and delivering superior products and services. We believe in recognizing employees' worth by offering competitive salaries and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) contributions, educational reimbursement, and much more. From company communication through Company-wide information meetings led by our President and CEO, to an Awards program designed to recognize our amazing employees and their accomplishments, you will not only feel like you are a part of a team, you will be a valued member of the Cimarron family. Cimarron is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Resumes should list employment dates in month/year format (e.g., January 2020 – March 2024) for each position to meet customer and contract documentation requirements.