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Electronics Engineer

SAIC

Hanahan, SCJob$80–120K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$80–120K/yr
Location
Hanahan, SC
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Secret clearance

Job overview

SAIC is seeking an Electronics Engineer to work at a customer site in North Charleston, South Carolina. The role develops power distribution architectures and PCB designs for distributed maritime sensors, integrates renewable energy and subsystem power controls, and supports sensing, communication, and edge processing. Candidates need a bachelor's degree and five years of experience, or four additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Microcontroller ProgrammingSystem Status MonitoringControl SystemsC++MicroPythonCircuitPythonPythonDC Power DistributionIoTLow-SWaP SensorsRenewable Energy IntegrationMarine ConnectorsElectrical Systems in Corrosive EnvironmentsSystem-Level Electrical ArchitectureRF PrinciplesUARTI2CRS232RS485USBEthernetPCB DesignPower Toggling

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience5 Years Experience or 9 Years Without DegreeAbility to Obtain Secret Clearance

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking an Electronics Engineer for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.

Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):

  • Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors

  • Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD)

  • Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence

  • Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems

  • Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience; four (4) years additional in lieu of degree

  • Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components (C++, microPython, circuitPython, standard Python)

  • Development of DC power distribution architectures

  • IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems

Required Clearance:

  • No clearance required to start, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance

Desired Skills:

  • Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance

  • Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments

  • Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight

  • Knowledge of standard RF principles

  • Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols (desired)

  • PCB design for DC power distribution.in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618727

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 10,432 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–120K/yr
  • South Carolina median$100–160K/yr69 salary ranges
  • US median$108–169K/yr6,750 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $100K, is 21% below the South Carolina median midpoint ($126K) — in the lowest quarter of Electrical Engineer salary ranges in South Carolina.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 120 open Electrical Engineer jobs in South Carolina and 10,432 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in South Carolina
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (8,712 postings).
Education
6,887 of the 10,432 open Electrical Engineer jobs (66%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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