Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Description

Are you an Electrical Engineer looking to support an exciting Navy mission in our new state-of-the-art labs? Are you seeking long term career growth and a company that values work life balance?

Job Summary: SAIC is seeking an organized and motivated Electrical Engineer who will effectively support a fast-paced work environment with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division in Middleton, RI. You will be part of a collaborative team of engineers and support technicians working to bring a variety of electrical designs from the early concept stage all the way through fabrication.  

This opportunity allows for optimum work-life balance on schedule and work location, along with future growth.

Location: Work is performed both on site and allows for remote/work at home. The on-site work is at 28 Jacome Way, Middletown, RI, and/or the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport.

Work Schedules: Flexible work schedule options are also available. If desired, engineers may partake in SAIC’s 9/80 schedule to have every other Friday off or a 4/10 schedule if desired.

Growth: Our management team is focused on enabling our engineers to succeed and achieve long term career goals and promoting leaders from within our programs. We have multiple long term programs within the local area, and are continuously pursuing similar expansions in the future.

More on the role: Our team is integral in developing present and future leading edge USN weapons systems capabilities. You will need broad engineering skillsets, well-developed work habits, and an eagerness and enthusiasm for solving engineering challenges.  Your projects will include the design, documentation and testing of a wide array of electrical and electronic systems in the areas of undersea defensive systems, torpedo test equipment, Automated Test Equipment (ATE), sonar electronics, analog, digital, and system design and other evolving tasking. 

Job Duties:

• You will design and test electronic systems for embedded underwater applications, custom data acquisition systems, and automated test hardware for land-based testing of naval systems.  
• You will develop and execute test plans for new designs and document your results.  
• You will design and document systems and circuits in OrCAD, Eagle, or Visio
• You will have powerful computer, software, and test equipment resources at your disposal to allow you to be effective and efficient in your job.  
• Candidates must demonstrate a history of excelling at multiple concurrent challenges and an eagerness and aptitude for learning new things.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more related experience.
• 4+ years of engineering design, analysis, and testing.
• Electronic design in the area of test equipment, power electronics, amplifiers, filtering, signal conditioning, and/or high-speed digital.  Schematic entry using OrCAD Capture or Eagle.
• Experience creating technical data package quality drawings for electronic systems.

Clearance:

• Must be able to initially obtain an Interim Secret Clearance and then obtain and hold an Active Secret Clearance for the duration of work on the contract.

Desired:

• Ability to interact directly with customers to extract requirements, generate a plan and report status.
• PCB design with Mentor Graphics PADS Layout, Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer, Altium, or Eagle.
• Experience with MATLAB, data manipulation, processing, and visualization.
• FPGA experience using Vivado for Xilinx hardware (FPGAs, SOCs, MPSOCs etc.) or Quartus for Intel products.
• Developing and executing test plans for electronic subsystems.
• Experience with soldering and debugging circuits.
• Hands on lab experience using oscilloscopes, function generators, network analyzers etc.
• Familiarity with System Engineering concepts.
• Experience with marine hardware including ROVs, UUVs, sonar, arrays, and transducers.
• Familiarity with National Instruments products including PXI, LabView, or CVI

Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator solving our nation's modernization and readiness challenges. Our offerings across defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets include high-end solutions in engineering, IT, and mission outcomes. We integrate the best components from our portfolio with our partner's ecosystem to deliver innovative and effective solutions. We are 25,500 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, VA, SAIC has annual revenues of nearly $7.1 billion. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer empowering people no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.  We strive to create a diverse, inclusive and respectful work culture that values all.