Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Description

SAIC has an opening for a Senior Electrical Engineer as part of a team providing hardware and software development solutions to the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL.

Position Overview:

Use your analytical engineering skills to identify and manage electrical/electronic requirements and translate those requirements into system architecture, hardware and firmware designs for special purpose military weapon systems at the Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) level.

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform power budget analysis for fixed and mounted computing environment systems
• Perform circuit design, analysis, simulation and component selection for high availability, high reliability and low Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) environments
• Direct design verification testing (DVT) of new electronic designs
• Generate and review documentation for a Technical Data Package (TDP) associated with the design, development, unit test, and integration of hardware/firmware components
• Assess technical and integration risks and identify mitigations
• Review test plans and procedures
• Review and adjudicate Deficiency Reports
• Review relevant milestone contract deliverables and provide recommendations across the life cycle of a development effort
• Participate in internal peer reviews and formal customer design reviews
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

Required Education:

Bachelors with nine (9) years of relevant experience; four (4) years of experience accepted in lieu of degree.

Ideal candidate will have a degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering.

Required Clearance:

Must have an interim secret clearance prior to start of employment with the ability to obtain and maintain Secret Clearance; US Citizenship required.

Required Experience:

• Embedded microcontroller hardware/firmware design and development
• FPGA firmware design, development, verification
• High speed digital design (e.g. LVDS, GigE, DDR3/DDR4)
• Analog design for data acquisition systems
• Switch mode power supply design
• Motor control
• EMC (MIL-STD-461)
• High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) survivability
• Proficient using MS Office suite, MS Visio, schematic capture program such as Altium Designer, circuit simulation program such as PSpice. Excellent communication skills and mechanical aptitude

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

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