Electrical Integration Engineer

DESE Research•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

DESE is seeking a collaborative, driven Electrical Integration Engineer to coordinate electrical interfaces and integration activities across multidisciplinary teams, industry partners, and government stakeholders. The engineer will serve as an electrical engineering focal point, bringing together technical teams and supporting successful system integration for advanced defense systems. The role coordinates electrical integration from planning through execution, verification, issue resolution, and closure. It includes facilitating technical discussions and working groups, managing meeting objectives and action items, supporting Interface Control Document (ICD) development and review, helping resolve interface challenges, and supporting interface testing and system integration. The engineer communicates technical findings, integration risks, and proposed solutions to engineering leadership and external stakeholders. DESE has provided technical and engineering solutions in Defense, Energy, Space, and Environment for 44 years. The company describes itself as a small, family-oriented business that offers competitive salaries, profit sharing, and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies on complex problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience supporting electrical engineering design, integration, interface development, or system-level engineering activities.
Ability to coordinate technical tasks and collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams.
Strong professional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to leadership and diverse stakeholders.
Experience supporting technical meetings, design reviews, or engineering working groups.
Ability to independently manage priorities, track action items, and drive technical issues toward resolution.
Working knowledge of fundamental electrical engineering principles, including voltage, current, resistance, impedance, and power distribution.

Nice To Haves

Experience facilitating cross-functional meetings, coordinating technical stakeholders, and driving integration activities to completion.
Experience developing, reviewing, updating, or negotiating Interface Control Documents (ICDs).
Familiarity with connector specifications, pin assignments, signal definitions, voltage tolerances, and current limitations.
Experience using test benches, simulated subsystems, or other verification environments to evaluate electrical interfaces before full system integration.
Understanding of electrical circuits, power supplies, impedance, and general electrical design principles.
Experience across multiple stages of engineering development, including drawings, simulation, bench units, prototypes, production, and testing.
Familiarity with abnormal behavior analysis, Sneak Circuit Analysis, Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), or related engineering evaluation techniques.
Experience working with multiple industry contractors, government entities, or large multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
Experience with complex aerospace, missile defense, or other mission-critical electrical systems.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary electrical engineering focal point, coordinating interface and integration activities across multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders.
Lead technical discussions, interface working groups, and cross-functional meetings; manage objectives, agendas, action items, and follow-up.
Organize assigned tasks, schedules, and technical priorities to support program integration milestones.
Coordinate electrical integration activities from planning through execution, verification, issue resolution, and closure.
Support the development, review, and coordination of Interface Control Documents (ICDs) defining electrical interfaces between systems and subsystems.
Collaborate with engineering teams to identify, evaluate, and resolve electrical interface challenges.
Support electrical interface testing, bench-level verification, and system integration activities.
Communicate technical findings, integration risks, and proposed solutions to engineering leadership, industry contractors, and government stakeholders.