Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Competitive salary
Health insurance
Opportunity for advancement
Paid time off
Training & development
Vision insurance
Title: Electrical Engineer, Senior
Details:
FLSA: Full-Time, Regular Salary, Non-Exempt
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 0900hrs – 1700hrs
Location: On-Site, Aberdeen, MD
Supervisory: Yes
Position Summary: The Senior Electrical Engineer will play a critical role in designing cutting-edge tactical power systems that empower the U.S. military, ensuring mission success through innovation, reliability, and compliance with military standards. This role offers the chance to work on advanced technologies, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and gain hands-on experience with military-grade systems and compliance standards. The Senior Engineer leads the concept phase, design activities, reviews and reports the design’s progress without much supervision. Assignments are broad in nature, requiring appreciable initiative, originality, ingenuity and excellent problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate will have excellent analysis skills, advanced electrical engineering experience and a great understanding of power electronics and battery designs.
Key Roles/Duties:
Take full accountability for electrical system design, from concept through production, ensuring quality, reliability, and adherence to military specifications
Must take ownership of the electrical design for the project with very little supervision. This includes doing the complete electrical design, creating schematics, conducting layouts, Design for Manufacturing (DFM) with the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) supplier, and bill of materials (BOM) generation
Perform worst-case circuit analysis on paper and do circuit simulations
Perform de-ratings for the entire electrical design
Design and document robust hardware architecture and structure suitable for use in high reliability embedded applications
Lead electrical hardware component selection/optimization for microcontrollers and battery/charger management devices
Provide necessary sustaining support to existing products and work in a cross-functional team environment to assure electrical system-level integration and design for manufacturability
Conduct comprehensive Electrical design failure mode and effects analysis (DFMEAs) to ensure designs exceed customer and regulatory requirements
Construct prototypes; evaluate and document their performance; identify possible improvements
Explore new and existing circuit designs and methods to solve design challenges
Maintain an awareness of customer requirements and complaints to identify areas that may need development or improvement
Prepare technical reports
Establish a culture of learning, openness, and accountability
Perform any additional related duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of bachelor’s in electrical engineering with more than five (5) years of experience in electronics manufacturing in the consumer, telecom, automotive, and/or military industries
Must be able to perform electrical layouts as well as schematic capture
Must have a solid understanding of digital and analog circuitry
A strong understanding of direct current (DC) power electronics
Experience with electrical computer-aided design (CAD) modeling systems (i.e. Altium, Orcad)
Strong quantitative, design, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products
As we are an International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) facility, we hire only U. S. persons who are defined as U. S. citizens or green card holders
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's in electrical engineering with more than five (5) years of experience in electronics manufacturing in the consumer, telecom, automotive, and/or military industries
Battery design experience is highly preferred
Familiarity with Military Standard (MIL-STD) 461, electromagnetic interference/compatibility (EMI/EMC) testing, and battery design
Experience with Altium
Previous Department of Defense (DoD) experience
Travel:
Up to ten (10) percent (%) Continental United States (CONUS) travel
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a background check and/or security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information: No clearance required, but preferred