Jobs at Samara Aerospace

• Own PCB Design from circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout through bring up testing.
• Conduct trade studies that balance electrical performance, signal integrity, thermal management, manufacturability, cost, and schedule.

• Perform soldering and rework of cables, connectors, and PCB assemblies in support of prototype and flight hardware builds.
• Perform mechanical assembly of prototype and spaceflight hardware.

• Plan and coordinate the full Hummingbird AIT campaign. This will involve collaborating with each discipline as well as the test engineers at Samara. It will include generating AIT schedules and execution planning.
• Own the requirements database and verification matrix, maintaining traceability from mission re...

• Design, analyze, procure, assemble, and test satellite structures, mechanisms, and solar arrays.
• Identify loads, interface, and functional requirements at the component- and systems-level.

• Dynamics/Kinematics Simulation
• Develop a high fidelity simulation of the spacecraft plant in MuJoCo

• Spacecraft reliability

Observability instrumentation
Designing test systems to expose bugs
Fixing bugs
Introducing/modeling best practice for reliable software

• Observability instrumentation

• Lead architectural R&D efforts for new RF communications and payload subsystems by conducting trade studies and establishing requirements
• Develop and maintain RF system models and simulations, perform end-to-end link budget analysis, noise and linearity cascades, and interference/co-existence assessments to validate system performance margins across operating conditions.