--- title: 'Board Design Engineer at Array Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/board-design-engineer-array-labs-redwood-city-tjsn01g91xft' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Board Design Engineer at Array Labs - **Company:** Array Labs - **Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$250k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/arraylabs.io/4d6509f1-6d38-4bdd-b0ad-613b2fb72d4c ## Job description ## About Us Array Labs builds advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world. We’re launching a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create a high-resolution 3D map of the Earth – updated in real time – enabling faster, smarter decision-making for government and commercial organizations supporting disaster response, infrastructure resilience, and mission-critical geopolitical intelligence. We design and build our satellites end-to-end, producing the world’s most advanced earth observation satellites. Our fleet will deliver unprecedented levels of accuracy, coverage, and responsiveness to power critical insights precisely where they’re needed most. ## About the Job As a Board Design Engineer, you will design, lay out, and validate the printed circuit assemblies that power Array’s radar payloads and on-orbit processing systems. Your work will span high-density digital and mixed-signal designs, power regulation modules, RF-interfaces, and compute hardware operating under the constraints of small satellite platforms. You will take boards from schematic through layout, manufacturing, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, digital, mechanical, and systems engineers. The boards you develop will directly influence Array’s signal integrity, processing throughput, thermal behavior, and overall radar system capability. As part of our quickly growing engineering team, you will play a critical role in the design of the world’s most advanced radar satellite constellation—one that will significantly improve humanity’s ability to rapidly and comprehensively understand our changing planet. ## Responsibilities Develop advanced electronic platforms, from architecture to manufacturing Work closely with software, firmware, RF, antenna, digital, and mechanical design engineers to design and validate state-of-the-art spacecraft electronics Create requirements, perform system trades, select components, capture schematics, design complex electronic assemblies and manage manufacturing Lead prototyping, hardware bring-up, debug, manufacturing, and test campaigns. Rapidly iterate on and improve electronic designs based on laboratory, environmental and on-orbit testing ## Basic Qualifications ## Experience in board design and layout Experience in electronics manufacture, bring-up, and test Excellent teamwork and communication skills Learns new concepts rapidly, completely, and in a self-directed manner High levels of self-motivation and personal accountability Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under significant time constraints ## Preferred Skills & Experience ## About Array Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Array Labs builds and operates swarms of radar satellites to create a real‑time, high‑resolution 3D map of the Earth. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A‑II, total funding $56.5 M) [cbinsights.com] - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA [linkedin.com] - **Founded**: 2021 [cbinsights.com] - **Founders**: Andrew Peterson (CEO) and Jose Isaac Robledo [ycombinator.com] ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Defense and Space Manufacturing, Earth Observation, Aerospace [linkedin.com] - **Target customers**: Government (defence, intelligence, disaster response), commercial (autonomous vehicles, agriculture, insurance, infrastructure) [arraylabs.io] - **Mission**: “Build advanced radar systems to help humanity understand and respond to changes across the physical world” [arraylabs.io] ## Products & Services - **Radar Satellite Constellation**: End‑to‑end design, manufacture and operation of a coordinated fleet of small satellites that use distributed radar to produce high‑resolution, real‑time 3D imagery of the Earth. The approach improves image quality by more than 60× over conventional techniques. [ycombinator.com] ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed. - **Key Metric**: $56.5 M total funding (includes a $21 M strategic round anchored by Mitsubishi Electric in July 2026) [linkedin.com, cbinsights.com] - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Mitsubishi Electric, Catapult Ventures, KOMPAS VC, Vest, Y Combinator, Seraphim Space, Great Wave Ventures. Partners include Maxar, Umbra, Raytheon, John Deere. [linkedin.com, prunderground.com] - **Growth Signals**: 36 employees (monthly headcount growth +10.9 %), 31 active job postings, recent contracts with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy (Office of Naval Research), named a John Deere 2025 Startup Collaborator. [linkedin.com] ## Competitive Advantages - **Distributed radar swarms** that achieve 60× better image quality than conventional satellites – a significant technical moat. [ycombinator.com] - **Full vertical integration**: satellites are designed, built, and operated in‑house, allowing rapid iteration and cost control. [arraylabs.io] - **Strong government & prime‑partner relationships** (Raytheon, Mitsubishi Electric, Maxar), providing credibility and route‑to‑market in defence and intelligence. [linkedin.com] ## Strategic Focus - **Expand constellation** and deliver real‑time 3D mapping to defence and commercial customers, with a particular focus on the Asia‑Pacific market via the Mitsubishi Electric partnership for airborne moving target indication (AMTI). [linkedin.com] - **Deepen partnerships** with data distributors (Maxar) and prime contractors (Raytheon) to accelerate product rollout and revenue. [prunderground.com] ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Employee‑centric” environment built on trust, respect, and opportunity; described as collaborative, curious, and pushing boundaries. [arraylabs.io] - **Work Model**: Offices in Redwood City (HQ), Palo Alto, and San Francisco; likely in‑office / hybrid given the hardware‑focused roles. [linkedin.com] - **Engineering Culture**: Hands‑on roles across RF, antenna, embedded software, radar algorithms, and satellite design. Small team (~36) offers outsized impact in a high‑growth, well‑funded startup. [jobs.lever.co] - **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but competitive compensation, equity, and the chance to work on cutting‑edge space technology with government and industry leaders. ## Sources 1. [arraylabs.io/about](https://www.arraylabs.io/about) 2. [jobs.lever.co/arraylabs.io](https://jobs.lever.co/arraylabs.io) 3. [linkedin.com/company/array-labs](https://linkedin.com/company/array-labs) 4. [cbinsights.com/company/array-labs](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/array-labs) 5. 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