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Overview

SAIC has an opening for a Principal Electrical Engineer as part of a team providing hardware and software development solutions to the US Army C5ISR Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Job Description

Use your analytical engineering skills to identify and manage electrical/electronic requirements and translate those requirements into system architecture, hardware and firmware designs for military vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Perform power budget analysis for fixed and mounted computing environment systems
• Perform circuit design, analysis, simulation and component selection for high availability, high reliability and low Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) environments
• Direct design verification testing (DVT) of new electronic designs
• Generate and review documentation for a Technical Data Package (TDP) associated with the design, development, unit test, and integration of hardware/firmware components
• Assess technical and integration risks and identify mitigations
• Review test plans and procedures
• Review and adjudicate Deficiency Reports
• Review relevant milestone contract deliverables and provide recommendations across the life cycle of a development effort
• Participate in internal peer reviews and formal customer design reviews
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering and ten (10) years of related experience; four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree

Required Clearance:

• Must have an active Secret clearance; US Citizenship required

Required Skills:

• Knowledge and practical experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Embedded microcontroller hardware/firmware design and development
• FPGA firmware design, development, verification
• High speed digital design (e.g. LVDS, GigE, DDR3/DDR4)
• Analog design for data acquisition systems
• Switch mode power supply design
• Motor control
• EMC (MIL-STD-461)
• High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) survivability
• Proficient using MS Office suite, MS Visio, and DE tools. Excellent communication skills and mechanical aptitude
• Experience with military communications capabilities, vehicles, and tactical radios is highly desirable

Salary - Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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