Principal Electrical Engineer

Description

SAIC has an opening for a Principal 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.

Job Description:

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.

Typical Duties:

• 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 prototype 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

Education Requirements:

• BS in Electrical / Computer Engineering plus a minimum of nine (9) years of experience; Additional six (6) years’ experience can be considered in lieu of degree (per contract vehicle).

Clearance Requirements:

• Must already have a DoD SECRET clearance or be able to obtain interim DoD SECRET clearance prior to first day of employment; US Citizenship required. Current SECRET clearance is preferred.

Required Experience:

• Knowledge and practical experience in one or more of the following areas:

• 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/EMI (MIL-STD-461)

• High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP/EMP) survivability

• Familiar with MLRS, THAAD and/or PATRIOT PAC-3

• 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.

• Experience with military radar systems, electronic countermeasures, weapon fire control systems, systems integration, and/or Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) highly desirable.

REQNUMBER: 2617811

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