OVERVIEW
Axiom Space is a human space exploration company, building era-defining space infrastructure and delivering technology-driven solutions that will empower civilization to transcend Earth. Beginning with Axiom Station, successor to the International Space Station, the company is pioneering a next-generation orbital settlement that will foster groundbreaking innovation and research in microgravity and drive the global space economy of tomorrow. Today, guided by the vision of leading humanity's expansion off planet, Axiom Space is the principal provider of commercial human spaceflight services and developer of advanced spacesuits for the Moon and beyond. For more information about Axiom Space, visit www.axiomspace.com .
Axiom Space fosters a work environment inclusive of all perspectives. We are the pioneers of commercial space, leading the transformation of low-Earth orbit into a global space marketplace. Our mission-driven team is seeking a bold and dynamic Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference Engineer Principal (Lv 5) who is fueled by high accountability, execution horsepower, and driven to understand our world, science/technology, and life itself, for the benefit of all on Earth and beyond.
POSITION SUMMARY
Since Axiom Space is a very complex work environment, we are looking for a resilient, high-energy Electromagnetic Compatibility and Interference Engineer to own the electromagnetic behavior of the station: what the hardware is allowed to emit, what it has to survive, how that is tailored from the governing standards into something a supplier can actually build to, and how it gets verified.
The Axiom Space Station is a multi-element pressurized vehicle with high voltage switching power conversion, deployable solar arrays, radio frequency communication systems, crew equipment, and payloads from customers we do not control, all sharing one structure and one harness environment. The person in this seat writes and owns the EMC control and verification plan, tailors MIL-STD-461H against MSFC-SPEC-521D, MSFC-STD-3790, and SSP 30237 into the program requirement set, flows those requirements into procurement specifications and interface control documents, approves supplier test plans, witnesses testing, and dispositions what happens when hardware fails.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Own the EMC control and verification plan: applicable standards, tailoring rationale, order of precedence, limits, applicability matrices, and the verification approach for each requirement
Tailor conducted and radiated emission and susceptibility requirements from MIL-STD-461H, MSFC-SPEC-521D, MSFC-STD-3790, and SSP 30237 to the vehicle, and defend the tailoring to the customer rather than inheriting limits that over specify the hardware and the cost
Flow EMC requirements into equipment procurement specifications, statements of work, and interface control documents, with the test method, the limit, the applicability, and the data deliverable stated unambiguously
Define and control the electromagnetic environment: internal and external radio frequency environment, hull shielding effectiveness, alternating current and static magnetic field limits, and the margin policy between the environment and equipment susceptibility levels
Review and approve supplier EMC test plans and procedures, review test reports against the data presentation requirements, witness safety critical and high-risk testing, and qualify test facilities including chamber attenuation, ambient characterization, and instrument calibration status
Own EMC test failure disposition: investigation, root cause, retest scope, fixes, and the standard for what constitutes an acceptable waiver, and carry the waiver and deviation process with the customer
Own cable and wiring electromagnetic practice: cable classification, routing and separation rules, shielding and shield termination methods, twisting, and overbraid and overshield termination, and enforce it through harness…