Role: Electrical Quality Engineer

Employment Type: Full Time

Educational Qualification: BE/BTech in Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Work Experience: 3-5 years of experience in Design QA, Electrical QA, Testing, or Validation roles.

Role Description:
As a key member of Pixxel’s Quality Assurance team, the Quality Engineer is responsible for

ensuring that processes, systems, and components meet rigorous quality standards across the

satellite lifecycle. The role focuses on embedding reliability, compliance, and quality discipline into

design, manufacturing, integration, and testing activities.

The candidate will drive product quality throughout development, including supplier management,

manufacturing oversight, integration, testing, and flight hardware acceptance. This position

requires close collaboration with design, manufacturing, AIT, supply chain, and program teams to

ensure quality requirements are met and space hardware is delivered successfully.

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Responsibilities & Duties:

1. Plan and execute quality assurance of incoming materials and in-process inspections

during satellite Assembly, Integration & Testing (AIT).

2. Review and approve manufacturing, inspection, integration, test documentation, and

traceability documentation.

3. Ensure compliance with project, customer, and industry quality requirements.

4. Participate in subsystem and spacecraft-level integration and test campaigns.

5. Lead nonconformance investigations and drive corrective and preventive actions

(CAPA). Perform RCA for hardware failures and quality issues.

6. Support FMEA/FMECA, reliability assessments, and risk management activities.

7. Review qualification, acceptance, and environmental test results.

8. Ensure proper configuration control and product traceability throughout the hardware

9. lifecycle.

10. Support customer audits, internal audits, and quality reviews.

11. Work closely with engineering teams to improve product reliability and manufacturability.
    
    

Desirable Skills & Certifications:

• Experience working on satellite or space hardware programs.

• Hands-on exposure to AOCS hardware such as Reaction Wheels, Magnetorquers, Star Trackers, Sun Sensors, IMUs, or GNSS receivers.

• Experience with environmental testing including vibration, thermal vacuum (TVAC), shock, and EMI/EMC testing.

• Awareness on supplier and vendor quality activities, including audits, inspections, and corrective actions.

• Knowledge of EEE components, derating, reliability, and space qualification processes.

• Experience participating in design reviews and hardware acceptance reviews.

Candidate Acumen:
Strong understanding of electrical quality assurance processes, including inspection, testing, root cause analysis, and adherence to quality standards across electronic and electrical assemblies. Demonstrates a structured approach to problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous process improvement in manufacturing or aerospace hardware environments.

Benefits:
Health insurance coverage
Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
Relocation assistance
Professional Mental Wellness services
Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company and spacecraft manufacturer redefining Earth observation with hyperspectral imaging. The company’s first three commercial hyperspectral satellites—Fireflies—deliver imagery at 5-meter resolution and 135+ spectral bands, providing 50x richer detail than traditional Earth observation systems and unlocking insights across agriculture, climate, energy, environment, and more.

Once fully deployed, Pixxel’s constellation of 18-24 satellites will capture imagery across up to 250 bands in VNIR and SWIR ranges, with a 40 km swath and daily global revisit capability. Pixxel’s most unique strength is its full-stack approach, integrating every layer of the value chain from satellite hardware and manufacturing to AI-powered analytics.

Pixxel’s satellite constellation is complemented by Aurora, its in-house Earth Observation Studio that simplifies satellite imagery analysis and democratises remote sensing for all. Designed to make hyperspectral data more accessible, Aurora by Pixxel combines high-frequency imagery with AI-powered tools to generate actionable insights, even for users without technical backgrounds. The third pillar of Pixxel’s ecosystem is its in-house satellite manufacturing capability. Beyond building its own spacecraft, Pixxel also provides satellite systems and subsystems to other organisations. This dual capacity sets it apart in a sector where most companies focus on either payload design or data operations, but not both.

Pixxel’s team is young but deeply mission-aligned, with a culture rooted in curiosity, speed, and long-term thinking. As the company grows its constellation and expands Aurora, the focus remains on making space-based insights practical, scalable, and genuinely helpful so that the health of the planet becomes measurable and action becomes possible.

Pixxel was the only Indian startup selected for the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles and has been recognised in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Via Satellite’s Top Innovators list.

For more information, see ourCareers page or follow Pixxel onLinkedIn andX/Twitter.

Culture

Pixxel is an organization where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day.

Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritise well-being and growth in all aspects of life

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