Mid Level Electrical Design Engineer

Leidos • Huntsville, AL

5d • $87,100 - $157,450

About The Position

Leidos Defense is seeking an Electrical Design Engineer to join its Huntsville team. The engineer owns electrical designs from initial block diagrams through working prototypes and production-ready documentation. The work includes selecting off-the-shelf components, designing custom circuits when needed, building and testing hardware, and working across power, RF, controls, and analog and digital design. The engineer collaborates with project teams on a broad range of products and applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a STEM discipline from an ABET-accredited school and 4 or more years of directly applicable experience, or a master’s degree and 2 or more years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated design work in a CAD package similar to SolidWorks and SolidWorks Electrical.
• Strong understanding of electrical system-level design.
• Ability to design for rapid prototyping and fabrication in a dynamic environment.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and hold a Final Secret clearance, or be eligible to obtain and maintain one.
• Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the Huntsville, Alabama area.

Nice To Haves

• Side projects such as custom PCBs, RF experiments, robotics, power supplies, or test fixtures, with examples available to share.
• Comfort using a soldering iron and oscilloscope as well as a CAD station.
• Experience designing power, data, and RF systems, including three-phase, split-phase, and DC power.
• Ability to read and draw electrical schematics and cable diagrams, and knowledge of fiber-optic communications.
• Experience with KiCAD, Mentor DxDesigner, Altium, OrCAD, or similar tools, as well as 2D/3D CAD tools such as SolidWorks, SolidWorks Electrical, AutoCAD, or Visio.
• Basic mechanical knowledge to work effectively with mechanical designers.
• Ability to document designs, assist with Technical Data Packages (TDPs), and support production and test.
• Active Secret clearance or higher.

Responsibilities

• Own designs end to end, including requirements, architecture, schematics, prototyping, testing, and release.
• Solve complex electrical problems using off-the-shelf parts or custom solutions.
• Work across power distribution, RF design, logic and controls, and custom analog and digital circuits.
• Build, bring up, debug, and rapidly iterate prototypes.
• Test using VNAs, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, multimeters, and laboratory power supplies and loads.
• Create block diagrams for top-level systems and lower-level subassemblies.
• Document and release designs using KiCAD, SolidWorks Electrical, Visio, or similar tools.
• Collaborate with project teams on a broad range of products and applications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level