
Description
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 C5ISR Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.
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 military vehicles.
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 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:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering and ten (10) years of related experience; four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree
Required Clearance:
- Must have an active Secret clearance; US Citizenship required
Required Skills:
- 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 (MIL-STD-461)
- High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) survivability
- Proficient using MS Office suite, MS Visio, and DE tools. Excellent communication skills and mechanical aptitude
- Experience with military communications capabilities, vehicles, and tactical radios is highly desirable
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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