Sr Principle Electrical Engineer

BAE SystemsHuntsville, AL
$136,000 - $231,200Onsite

About The Position

Looking for an exciting career that utilizes your boundless creativity, technical innovation, and leadership skills? “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®” is our mission, and we’re looking for engineers who share our passion in developing first-of-its-kind technologies and equipment to protect our warfighters on all fronts. From our state-of-the-art facility in Huntsville, AL, our Electronic Solutions Hardware Engineering organization welcomes an energetic and motivated Lead Senior Principal Electrical Engineer. This role is an ideal position for a proven leader with diverse technical capabilities that has demonstrated “hands-on” electrical engineering expertise. The selected individual will contribute to the design, development, integration/test, and production of complex systems for military applications. They will work with a multi-discipline team to develop complex products based on IR, RF, and laser technologies. The individual must be a self-starter with development experience working with integrated military electronic hardware and supporting test equipment. The selected individual will be expected to lead electrical/hardware engineering teams through all phases of the product life cycle from conceptual development and detail design through qualification, manufacturing transition and production support.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • 12+ years of experience to include 10+ years of demonstrated experience in product development and support of DoD military electronics equipment
  • Eligible to obtain a DOD Security Clearance
  • Experience defining digital hardware architecture for complex military equipment
  • Solid fundamentals of digital/analog/mixed signal electronics and interface/communication standards
  • Working experience with RF/IR/Laser, receivers, sensors/cameras, and/or related technologies
  • Experience with state-of-the-art electrical engineering development tools
  • Experience with python, C, or programming languages for test execution understanding
  • Strong "hands on" laboratory experience with instrumentation, equipment, and processes
  • Experience with debugging hardware using multimeters, oscilloscopes, digital signal analyzers

Nice To Haves

  • Current experience with Cadence electrical engineering development tools
  • Motivated self-starter and problem solver
  • Leadership capabilities in team environments with good written and verbal communication skills
  • Detail oriented person with good time management skills to be able to prioritize problems/actions in a team environment
  • Experience in designing Power Supply circuits
  • Familiarity with JTAG protocol
  • MATLAB/Simulink tool experience
  • Familiarity with image and signal processing techniques
  • Understanding of complex electronics manufacturing and test methodologies
  • Active DOD security clearance

Responsibilities

  • Developing robust hardware architectures and solutions to meet demanding customer requirements
  • Leveraging their electrical engineering expertise to lead and/or perform circuit and CCA design and analysis, FPGA/CPLD designs/developments (Xilinx, Lattice), technical trade studies, analog/digital/mixed signal interface design, component selection, evaluation of technology insertion/upgrades, as well as laboratory test and troubleshooting
  • Planning work products
  • Managing subcontract developments to supporting product builds & integration efforts

Benefits

  • health, dental, and vision insurance
  • health savings accounts
  • a 401(k) savings plan
  • disability coverage
  • life and accident insurance
  • employee assistance program
  • legal plan
  • discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
  • paid time off
  • paid holidays
  • paid parental leave
  • military leave
  • bereavement leave
  • any applicable federal and state sick leave
  • company recognition program
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