May 2024 – Aug 2024 · Marlborough, MA · redwirespace.com ↗
Redwire Space
Hardware & Embedded Software Engineering Intern
Owned the end-to-end design of a new Quad Sun Sensor product line for LEO satellites — electrical design, embedded software, and validation — achieving first-spin hardware success.
- unit cost reduction
- ~70%
- hardware success
- 1st spin
- sensor accuracy
- +250%
What I did
- Designed low-cost, highly scalable analog and digital Quad Sun Sensor (QSS) circuits for LEO satellites, cutting unit cost ~70% versus the existing product line while preserving flight performance.
- Achieved first-spin hardware success by owning the full design cycle: schematic capture, layout, embedded firmware, and hardware validation.
- Developed Python/C++ calibration algorithms and mathematical models converting quadrant photodiode response into precise sun angles, improving effective sensor accuracy by 250%.
- Authored space-grade engineering documentation — part stress, reliability, derating, and thermal analyses — to flight-program standards.
Analog Circuit Design · Embedded C/C++ · Python · Space-Grade Design · Sensor Calibration