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Location: This role is based onsite at our Louisville, CO office.  Travel: Up to 10%, domestic or international. Job ID: 578 About Capella Capella, an IonQ company, spans national security, advanced sensing, and next-generation compute to deliver secure, mission-ready intelligence. Capella’s culture is built on collaboration, rigorous engineering, and a shared commitment to delivering solutions that strengthen global stability and security. Team members work side-by-side with some of the most innovative minds in space systems, quantum-enabled technologies, and mission-critical operations. Capella values curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to tackle hard problems with precision and creativity. Capella welcomes and encourages applicants whose perspectives are historically underrepresented in technology, national security, and aerospace. No prior space experience is required. Diverse viewpoints strengthen Capella’s ability to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for partners worldwide. The Role As a Staff Electrical Hardware Design Engineer, you will take ownership of full-cycle PCBA designs, from early concept to flight readiness. You will work cross-functionally with RF, mechanical, software, FPGA/SoC, and operations teams to bring high-reliability, space-ready electronics to orbit. You will guide the Electrical Engineering team on special topics and present across disciplines to help facilitate ideas, product readiness, and conduct reviews. Responsibilities Own the full electrical design lifecycle for complex spaceflight hardware: Concept of operations, requirements engineering, schematic capture, layout, bring-up, test, and manufacturing handoff  Develop robust analog/digital designs for mission-critical systems under environmental and performance constraints  Organize collaborative cross disciplinary design reviews sharing feedback and shaping solutions with a team of experienced engineers  Provide critical input to schedule planning, hardware requirements, and process improvements  Lead board-level bring-up and debugging, integrating firmware/software/FPGA with embedded systems  Define test plans and verification strategies that meet flight readiness requirements  Play a key role in scaling up our manufacturing facility bringing hardware from prototype to low-volume production  Collaborate across teams- mechanical, RF, software, FPGA/SoC, and systems to ensure seamless integration  Mentor early-career engineers contributing to internal process improvements and elevating the overall quality of the team  Engage with external vendors and CMs, ensuring delivery quality, resolving DFM/DFT issues, and ensuring on-time delivery  Drive failure analysis and root-cause investigations across flight or test anomalies What Success Looks Like   You consistently deliver flight-quality hardware on schedule with minimal oversight  You proactively identify and articulate system-level risks and drive mitigations early  You communicate across hardware/software and cross-functional gaps with confidence and clarity  You make thoughtful trade-offs in constrained environments and justify them with data  You show curiosity about advanced areas like architecture optimization or radiation mitigation, even if they’re outside your scope for now  You exhibit advanced, wide-ranging experience in electrical engineering, using in-depth professional knowledge  You get things done, align with stakeholders, and document concisely   Qualifications   Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field  8+ years of experience designing and debugging PCBAs  Proficiency in Altium Designer (or similar ECAD tools)  Hands-on experience with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, etc.)  Solid