Electrical Engineer – Embedded Systems / Flight Control Hardware
About The Position
Peraton Labs is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and develop embedded electronic systems supporting unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms for critical national security missions. The role spans circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems, with an emphasis on rapidly prototyping and maturing integrated hardware capabilities. The engineer provides hands-on support from system architecture and component selection through schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing. The position collaborates with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers to integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms. This role is 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.
- Support engineering from system architecture and component selection through 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.
- Rapidly prototype and mature integrated hardware capabilities.
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
