Electrical Engineer – Embedded Systems / Flight Control Hardware

Peraton • Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Peraton Labs is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and develop embedded electronic systems for unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms supporting national security missions. The position involves hands-on engineering from system architecture and component selection through schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing. The engineer will work with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers to integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms. The role requires working on site five days per week at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 2 years of experience, or a Master’s degree and 0 years of experience.
• Experience designing and developing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design, component selection, PCB development, and hardware bring-up.
• Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, or SoCs and associated peripheral circuitry.
• Experience developing or integrating flight control hardware, avionics, robotics, or other real-time embedded systems.
• Working knowledge of embedded interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, or similar.
• Experience developing, modifying, or debugging embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other laboratory equipment.
• Ability to integrate sensors, communications devices, and other peripherals into embedded platforms.
• U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

• Experience developing hardware for UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace platforms.
• Experience with flight controllers, IMUs, GNSS receivers, ESCs, servos, motor control, or related avionics.
• Experience integrating cameras, image sensors, video processing hardware, or electro-optical systems.
• Familiarity with camera interfaces such as MIPI CSI, USB, Ethernet, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS environments, or bare-metal firmware development.
• Familiarity with STM32, NXP, TI, Microchip, NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi Compute Module, or similar embedded platforms.
• Experience with power distribution, battery-powered systems, DC/DC conversion, and power integrity.
• Experience with PCB layout considerations for mixed-signal, high-speed digital, or compact embedded systems.
• Familiarity with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, or similar flight control and robotics ecosystems.
• Experience rapidly prototyping and integrating custom embedded hardware into operational or test platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop embedded electronic systems for unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms.
• Provide engineering support across system architecture, component selection, schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing.
• Integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms.
• Collaborate with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers.
• Troubleshoot hardware and firmware using laboratory equipment.
• Integrate sensors, communications devices, and other peripherals into embedded platforms.

What This Job Offers

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