Electrical Design Engineer

Electrical Engineer / Designer

Candidate-Facing Job Description

Electrical Design Engineer, Space & Defence Sensor Hardware
Ottawa, ON | Onsite 4 days/week | 6-month contract (extension and conversion potential) |

Our client is an established Canadian space technology company. They’re adding an Electrical Engineer to a small hardware team that builds advanced optical sensing and navigation electronics for space and defence missions. The work is hands-on, from schematic to flight hardware. Strong performers on this contract are in line for a permanent offer.

What you’ll do

• Design and test analog and digital circuit card assemblies for optical sensing, navigation and on-board processing systems
• Take boards from schematic capture through layout support, signal integrity review, bring-up and board-level test
• Design for EMI/EMC compliance from the start and support compliance testing
• Run and document reliability and performance analyses: parts derating, FMECA and worst-case circuit analysis
• Investigate hardware anomalies and failures through to root cause, and document what you find
• Write and maintain design specs, test procedures and test reports under formal configuration control
• Guide less experienced engineers and work closely with the systems, mechanical, software and test teams

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 5 to 8 years of professional EE design experience after graduation (co-op and internships don’t count)
• Proven board-level design and test experience across analog and digital circuits
• Hands-on experience designing for EMI/EMC compliance
• Excellent written and spoken English, and the ability to explain a design clearly and concisely
• Strong technical documentation habits

Nice to have

• Optics or electro-optics experience
• A background in defence, space or medical device electronics
• Radiation analysis and space-grade EEE parts derating standards