PROJECT ENGINEER

Bascom Hunter Technologies • O’Fallon, MO

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Bascom Hunter develops custom defense electronics spanning RF systems, resilient satellite and tactical communications, embedded computing, and emerging AI and neuromorphic technologies. The Project Engineer contributes to multidisciplinary aerospace and defense projects, helping solve technical problems and deliver systems from concept through deployment.

Based onsite in O’Fallon, Missouri, this role coordinates engineering execution from requirements through design, integration, testing, and delivery. The Project Engineer works with engineering, program management, manufacturing, procurement, and quality to meet technical, schedule, and cost targets, and serves as a technical point of contact for customers and suppliers. Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation, including criminal history and identity checks. U.S. citizenship is required due to government contract requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 1–3 years of engineering or technical project experience.
• Experience coordinating engineering tasks and solving technical problems across multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong technical communication, organization, and customer-facing skills.
• Ability to interpret requirements, drawings, and test results.
• U.S. citizenship required due to government contract requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting defense or aerospace electronics projects, including customer technical reviews and documentation.
• Familiarity with RF front ends, mixed signal electronics, embedded digital systems, or related electronics hardware.
• Experience with requirements traceability, configuration management, design release, and engineering change control.
• Hands-on experience with hardware integration, verification testing, troubleshooting, and transition to production.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO 9001 quality systems and export control requirements (ITAR/EAR).
• Experience developing engineering estimates and schedules and tracking technical milestones, risks, and action items.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate technical execution of defense electronics projects by translating customer requirements into engineering tasks, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for customers and suppliers, communicate requirements, resolve questions, and support design reviews.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities with manufacturing, procurement, and quality to support design release and production readiness.
• Support proposal development by contributing technical approaches, engineering estimates, schedules, and identification of technical risks.
• Support requirements traceability, configuration control, verification planning, integration, and testing in accordance with project requirements and internal quality procedures.
• Identify and resolve technical risks and issues, and assess design changes for their effects on performance, schedule, cost, and manufacturability.
• Track engineering milestones, action items, and deliverables, and report technical status and resource needs to the Program Manager and engineering leadership.

What This Job Offers

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