--- title: 'Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Array Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-electrical-design-engineer-array-labs-redwood-city-x4gbmr4my9f2' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Array Labs - **Company:** Array Labs - **Location:** Redwood City, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$170k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-02-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/arraylabs.io/f48243df-d173-4574-bd4c-c76606c78001 ## Job description 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 Senior Electrical Design Engineer, you will design and validate the digital and mixed-signal electronics that support Array’s radar payloads and satellite platforms. Your work will include high-speed digital interfaces, precision clocking and timing distribution, power regulation and control circuits, system monitoring and telemetry hardware, and fault-tolerant satellite avionics. You will take hardware through design, prototyping, bring-up, and qualification, working closely with RF, antenna, mechanical, and systems engineers. The hardware you develop will directly affect system performance, power efficiency, stability, and overall reliability on orbit. 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: - B.S. in Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 4-7 years of relevant experience - Experience in electronics design, 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 and Experience: - Master’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field - Hands-on experience with full-life cycle hardware development (concept to production) in consumer electronics, power electronics, communications, automotive, aerospace, and/or robotics - Background in high-speed board design, simulation, and validation techniques including PCB stack-up, fabrication considerations, layout constraints, component selection, and measurement - Background in electromagnetic theory and RF fundamentals such as S-parameters, transmission lines, and broadband impedance matching - Hands-on experience designing high-performance platforms including compute (SoCs, FPGAs, MCUs), storage (DDR, SSDs), high-speed interfaces (PCIe, SPI, JESD204B), RF components (PAs, LNAs, switches) - Proficiency with schematic capture and design using CAD tools such as Altium Designer (preferred); experience with Allegro and/or OrCAD is a plus - Experience with EMC requirements and EMI mitigation techniques - Experience with signal and power integrity simulation and measurement - Experience with EM and thermal simulation of printed circuit boards - Experience with analysis and simulation tools such as LTspice, ADS, and/or Microwave Office - Experience with data analysis and programming in MATLAB or Python - Hands-on experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes and network analyzers ITAR Requirements To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State ## Equal Opportunity Employer Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status We will conduct interviews via Google Meet; the typical process takes around 2-4 weeks to complete from start to finish. Hiring and Compensation Strategy Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple: 1. find uncommonly good people 2. pay them uncommonly well You can anticipate competitive pay, with high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation. Why Join Array Labs? Array Labs is launching a constellation of satellites to create the first high-resolution, real-time, three-dimensional model of Earth. Our next-generation satellite technology will offer image quality 60x greater than traditional techniques, profoundly expanding humanity’s ability to understand and respond to events on a global scale. In forging an affordable, accessible, accurate representation of Earth, our work has the potential to transform the face of dozens of fields, including autonomy, telecommunications, disaster relief, gaming, climate science, defense and construction. ## 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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