Hardware and Software High Availability Engineer – Aerospace & Mission-Critical Systems
Summary
Designs and validates fault-tolerant hardware and embedded systems for aerospace and defense, ensuring reliability under extreme conditions like radiation, thermal stress, and vibration.
- Design robust hardware architectures for aerospace and mission-critical applications.
- Select reliable electronic components considering environmental and radiation factors.
- Perform component trade studies and apply derating methodologies.
- Develop fault-tolerant hardware solutions with fault detection and recovery mechanisms.
- Support PCB design reviews for power, signal integrity, and manufacturability.
- Design hardware for extreme environmental conditions, including thermal management solutions.
- Analyze and verify hardware performance under shock, vibration, and thermal cycling.
- Define radiation requirements and select radiation-tolerant components.
- Perform radiation effects analysis and develop Radiation Hardness Assurance processes.
- Support environmental qualification testing and failure investigations.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Aerospace Engineering.
- Experience in high-reliability hardware and embedded systems design.
- Knowledge of aerospace, defense, or mission-critical systems.
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering and component selection.
- Proficiency in thermal management and environmental qualification.
- Experience with radiation effects and mitigation techniques.
- Familiarity with EMC/EMI engineering and reliability analysis.
- Ability to perform fault-tolerant architecture design.
- Understanding of embedded software fault management.
- Experience with environmental testing and lifecycle management.