Ready to take your career stratospheric?
AALTO is a global leader in the stratosphere. We design, manufacture and offer Earth observation and connectivity services using our record-breaking Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) solar-electric unmanned aircraft, capable of staying in the stratosphere for days, weeks, and months at a time.
Powered entirely by the sun, Zephyr operates above 60,000 feet, high above conventional air traffic. As a new layer in Earth observation and connectivity ecosystems, Zephyr is positioned between satellites and more conventional terrestrial assets – filling in the operational gap between the two layers, while remaining a complementary solution capable of working in a system of systems.
Services delivered with Zephyr can empower government and commercial customers with capabilities to see and sense or connect from the stratosphere – making a meaningful impact on the ground, from the skies.
Join #TeamAALTO as we create this new, up-and-coming frontier, and be a part of a highly-skilled, innovative and passionate group of people working together to make sure “the future is stratospheric.”

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a design Engineer to work with us at our design and production site in Farnborough. Here you would be working in a small team developing RF and datalink avionics modules utilised on our high-altitude Zephyr aircraft.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of analogue and digital electronic circuit design principles
• Experience of RF systems (link budgets, antennas, transmitters/receivers etc.)
• Able to take a unit design from requirements through detailed design and system trade-offs to prototyping and batch production, testing and system integration
• Able to perform trade-off analyses of candidate solutions to best meet system requirements
• Use of electronic CAD packages (schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation etc.)
• Experience of electronic component selection in accordance with requirements

• Executing full lifecycle analogue and digital circuit design for harsh thermal and radiation environments
• Managing and supporting the design and development of datalinks (Satcom, GNSS)
• Coordinating unit testing of Avionics modules from component to systems level
• Managing non-conformances throughout the design lifecycle
• Capturing lessons learnt and identifying improvements to designs and processes
• Tracking design changes through a formal change process