light Electronics Designer

Vimotek is a space company, part of the Arctic Business incubator, recently named on Ny Teknik’s 33 List as one of Sweden’s most promising technology startups, working to de-risk spacecraft proximity operations, accelerate time-to-orbit and enable scaling of in-orbit services.

The company equips space companies’ engineering and operations teams with leading dual-use solutions for in-space automation within two closely associated and complementary domains:

• Digital Twins of Spacecraft for Missions Simulation and Validation

• AI-Driven Sensing, Perception and Control

What you’ll build?

You will play a key role in developing Vimotek’s NavCam perception units – a sensor and compute platform that fuses cameras, LiDAR, and AI-driven processing to deliver actionable navigation data for spacecraft.

This is not a paper-architecture role. You will be designing real hardware, iterating on prototypes and seeing your designs move toward flight-ready systems for our customers.

Your role

As Flight Electronics Designer, you will contribute to system architecture and own sub-system level development, working closely with the team of system, software, perception and AIT engineers to bring them to life. You will:

• Work on the electronics architecture for sensing and computing space systems

• Calculate and simulate your designs

• Make trade-off analysis to find optimal solutions

• Design, breadboard, prototype, and test high-reliability flight electronics

• Collaborate with suppliers on component selection

• Help shape engineering practices and mentor junior engineers as the team grows

Skills and Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Solid experience designing electronics for robust or safety-critical systems (space, automotive, aerospace, robotics, or defence)

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in electronics system architecture, simulation and design

• Experience on PCB simulation and design, including HDI multilayer and rigid-flex

• Comfort working end-to-end: concept → schematic → layout → bring-up → test → dispatch to manufacturing

• At least basic programming and scripting skills in C, C++, Python and MATLAB for prototyping, embedded development, and data analysis

• Experience with MCU, MPU and FPGA-based systems development

• Hands-on design experience with a broad range of components and subsystems, high-speed digital and analog signal chains, communication interfaces (e.g., LVDS, CAN, Ethernet)

• You enjoy ownership and autonomy

• You thrive in a startup environment with fast iteration and evolving requirements

• You balance technical depth with pragmatism – you know when “good enough” is right

• You collaborate well across disciplines and enjoy building things that actually ship (and fly)

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Familiarity with radiation environment, reliability standards, derating practices, and qualification processes

• Extensive simulation and testing experience

Additional Information

• The company’s primary language is English, proficiency in additional languages is a plus

• Right to work in Sweden required (EU/EEA citizenship, permanent residence, or valid Swedish work permit). No visa sponsorship

• Location: Stockholm / Luleå, on-site work required

Join Vimotek

Join Vimotek and our exciting mission to develop the solutions that will enable industrialization of space – let’s do great things together!