Senior Electrical Engineer
North Charleston, SCJob$120–160K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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SAIC seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to support the CAC2s program at its customer site in North Charleston, South Carolina. The role focuses on designing, developing, troubleshooting, testing, and supporting electrical systems in service, including modular power distribution, renewable energy integration, power budgeting, and signal and power PCB design. The position requires a bachelor's degree, five years of experience, and U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a highly motivated Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team, supporting the design, development, troubleshooting, testing, and in-service support of the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2s) program for our customer site in North Charleston, SC .
Roles/Responsibilities: (include, but are not limited to)
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Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors
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Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD)
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Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence
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Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems
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Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding
Qualifications
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience
Relevant Background/Experience:
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Development of DC power distribution architectures
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Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components
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Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols
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IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems
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PCB design for DC power distribution.in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design
Desired Skills:
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Power Distribution Design for DC Systems
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PCB Design (Power and Signal)
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Proven development of power control systems for low SWaP architectures to improve or maintain persistence on power source
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Experience with microcontrollers (C++, microPython, circuitPython, standard Python) for interfacing with sensors, relays, etc.
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Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance
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Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments
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Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight
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Knowledge of standard RF principles
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Self-starter who will attack problems and is capable of identifying problems, developing solutions, and troubleshooting systems independently
Clearance:
- Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618406
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$120–160K/yr
- South Carolina median$100–160K/yr69 salary ranges
- US median$108–169K/yr6,750 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 11% above the South Carolina median midpoint ($126K) — in the middle half 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
- CDM Smith14 open
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- 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
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 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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