Lead Electrical Engineer - Up to 20K Sign-on Bonus

Textron•Hunt Valley, MD

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About The Position

Textron Systems is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer for its Sea Systems business area to develop solutions for unmanned surface vehicle programs. Current areas of focus include autonomous control, advanced payload integration, vision systems, and other emerging technologies that enhance unmanned surface vehicle capabilities. The role involves designing, simulating, constructing, and field-testing autonomous surface vehicles and subsystems. The engineer performs conceptual design, engineering analysis, detailed subsystem electrical design, integration, testing, manufacturing support, and field support. The position may be an individual-contributor or team-lead role within a multifunctional team working on applied research and development as well as established programs. The engineer will design integrated electrical and communications systems for vehicles, support concept development and production, prepare formal engineering documents, contribute to proposals, and brief management and customers on plans and progress. The role also supports technologies and products that serve national defense missions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in electrical engineering, electro-mechanical engineering, or a related field, with 9 or more years of experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of design documentation.
Effective presentation skills.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Visio.
Design and integration experience in some or all of the following: military and/or commercial vehicle systems, control systems, power distribution and conversion systems, and safety systems.
Proven record of innovation and problem solving in cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with Systems Engineering and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation and testing.
Design and integration experience in some or all of the following: cable design; hardware safety and risk analysis; RF link budgets; EMI/EMC, grounding, and environmental control; hardware environmental and electromagnetic qualification to military standards; HALT and ESS testing; GPS and RF communications integration; AC and DC power, motors, motor controllers, and brakes; Ethernet and networking, RS232/422, and CAN bus; lithium batteries; power converters; fault tree development and criticality analysis; programming and algorithm development; and test equipment such as electronic load banks, power supplies, signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, digital multimeters, and isolation meters.
Hands-on experience troubleshooting electrical cabling and digital communications.
Eligible to obtain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Wired Ethernet and network configuration experience.

Responsibilities

Perform detailed design of integrated electrical and communications systems on vehicles.
Perform engineering analysis, integration, and testing.
Contribute to concept development on internal cross-functional design teams, including prototyping and production support.
Prepare formal engineering documentation, including drawings, presentations, specifications, and customer design presentations.
Support proposal activity by providing input to cost estimates and risk assessments.
May lead a design team.
Produce technical white papers and brief management and customers on planning and progress.
Prepare or manage design change documentation through Engineering Change Notices and Engineering Change Proposals.
Provide manufacturing and field support.