Electrical Engineer

Saic • Middletown, RI

13d • Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking an organized and motivated Electrical Engineer to support a fast-paced work environment with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division in Middleton, RI. You will be part of a collaborative team of engineers and support technicians working to bring a variety of electrical designs from the early concept stage all the way through fabrication. The local Middletown office supports automated test equipment design, printed circuit board design (PCB), cable design, and acoustic system design. Support can vary from Research & Development to Production Support. Our team is integral in developing present and future leading edge USN weapons systems capabilities. You will need broad engineering skillsets, well-developed work habits, and an eagerness and enthusiasm for solving engineering challenges. Your work will include the design, documentation and testing of a complex Automated Test Equipment (ATE).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and two (2) years of experience.
• Experience in engineering design, analysis, and testing.
• Electronic design in the area of test equipment, power electronics, amplifiers, filtering, signal conditioning, and/or high-speed digital.
• Schematic entry in a schematic capture software.
• Experience contributing to engineering documentation for a technical data package.
• Ability to read and understand basic electrical and mechanical drawings.
• Hands-on troubleshooting using test equipment to help isolate problems and ability to generate solutions.
• Must be able to initially obtain an Interim Secret Clearance and then obtain and hold an Active Secret Clearance for the duration of work on the contract.

Nice To Haves

• PCB design with Mentor Graphics PADS Layout, Cadence OrCAD PCB Designer, Altium, or Eagle.
• Experience with MATLAB, data manipulation, processing, and visualization.
• FPGA experience using Vivado for Xilinx hardware (FPGAs, SOCs, MPSOCs etc.) or Quartus for Intel products in Verilog and VHDL.
• Developing and executing test plans for electronic subsystems.
• Experience with soldering and debugging circuits as well as basic use with mechanical tools.
• Hands-on lab experience using oscilloscopes, function generators, power supplies, spectrum analyzers, impedance analyzer, HI-POT testers, etc.
• Familiarity with System Engineering concepts.
• Experience with marine hardware including ROVs, UUVs, sonar, arrays, and transducers.
• Familiarity with National Instruments products including PXI, LabView, or CVI.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans for new designs and document your results.
• Design and document systems and circuits in Altium.
• Work in an interdisciplinary collaborative environment with other groups of engineers, logisticians, technicians, and draftsman to ensure the design meets requirements.
• Review specifications, requirements, schematics, bill of materials, mechanical drawings, and test plans created by senior engineering for accuracy.
• Create/Review well documented notes of design changes to maintain version control of drawings.
• Troubleshoot both large scale systems and individual system components or a larger scale system.

What This Job Offers

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