Senior Electrical Engineer

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•Dallas, TX

11d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for leading requirements definition, circuit card design, and overseeing project completion on time and within budget. Lead responsibilities include the ability to design and oversee the manufacture of electrical circuits and circuit cards, while interfacing with other functional team members and working with other cross-functional leads representing a wide range of disciplines, including integrated circuit design, test engineering, software engineering, mechanical design, system design, and other functions. The candidate will work directly within the Electrical Engineering CCA team in order to research and develop electrical engineering designs, perform integration, and conduct test activities for infrared sensor systems, as required.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
5+ years of direct Electrical Engineering experience
Basic Microsoft application skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Explorer
Must be diligent, hardworking, and quick to learn
Good interpersonal, organizational and problem solving skills
Good communicator with data analysis, documentation, and presentation skills
Mature, professional, positive, and possess a “can-do” attitude
Detail-oriented
Self-driven with ability to prioritize tasks and to work both in a team and independently
Ability to work well in a team environment and guide others
Experience being lead design engineer and driving new technologies and tools.
Experience with the definition and decomposition of requirements.
U.S. Citizenship required.
This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree
Experience designing circuit card assemblies
Experience with schematic capture tools (Cadence, Mentor, Altium, other)
Strong documentation and communication skills
Experience with integration and test (validation and verification) of circuit card assemblies in new products
Familiar with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, digital multimeters, and similar lab test and debug equipment
Proven capability executing complex designs in a timely manner
Experience with electrical design tools including Cadence Allegro or similar PCB design tools
EO IR Sensor / Video Camera development experience highly preferred
Firmware and Softcore Processor design experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Engineering leadership
Requirements definition and decomposition
Circuit card design including requirements definition, components selection, schematic capture, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, circuit card assembly (CCA) verification testing and troubleshooting/debug, and documentation
Create design review materials and execute detailed design review presentations with technical peers, management, and customers
Design, integration, and test of complex analog and digital circuits including digital signal processing
Verification of system level requirements
Complete assigned tasks on time
Gather and analyze data for data-driven decision making / conduct trade-studies
Provide budget, cost and schedule input for design assignments.
Create/review basis of estimates (BOEs).
Must have good interpersonal skills and have the ability to build a good network
Perform a wide variety of tasks to gain familiarity with the engineering staff, methods, programs and practices