Principal Electrical Engineer

Mercury Systems • Huntsville, AL

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Mercury Systems IPS Data Processing business unit is developing sophisticated
mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments.
We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical
oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical
lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as
well as still making individual technical contributions on the team. The
candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and
direction to the hardware design team.

This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing
and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product
Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.

Mercury Systems is the ideal company to grow your electrical engineering career
at if you are looking to make an impact, grow your technical toolbox both in
breath and in depth, while being exposed to many opportunities to problem solve
that you won't get at much larger organizations where you are siloed and have a
narrower "swim lane".

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (master’s preferred)
• Ideally 8+ years electrical/hardware engineering design experience
• Schematics and PCB design experience
• Experience using hardware engineering design tools, such as Cadence Concept, Cadence Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, SPICE, HyperLynx, Mentor Graphics Valydate
• Expert knowledge in the use of digital test equipment such as spectrum analyzer and high-speed oscilloscopes.
• Experience with design documentation and interpreting customer requirements
• Experience multi-tasking on multiple projects
• Experience leading projects
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance in the future. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Nice To Haves

• An active DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience with airborne electronic hardware certification process
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as FPGA, PCIe, SATA, I2C, ARINC 429, Ethernet
• Experience with military test standards, such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704
• Experience with Video input and output processing
• Experience working on proposals and schedule/cost estimates
• Working knowledge of VITA design standards (VITA 42, 46, 62, 65)

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering team to design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules or systems to meet requirements.
• Lead engineering efforts to support production to resolve manufacturing issues or field failure investigation.
• Create engineering design guidelines, work instructions and checklists for design consistency and process improvement to reduce future development costs.
• Lead efforts to improve design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA) and design for test (DFT).
• Provide technical leadership for new and on-going projects.
• Act as technical liaison with Manufacturing, Operations and Program Management.
• Provide technical expertise and experience to assist Program Managers and Technical Project Managers to develop cost estimates and integrated master schedule to ensure they are clearly defined.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees