Electrical Engineer, Weapon Systems

Key Responsibilities

• Full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, and integration with the system.
• Development of fuzing circuitry for missile systems.
• Collaborate with vehicle development teams to design, document, and produce tailored fuzing systems and effectors.
• Develop system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment within the vehicle.
• Provide support and collaborate within other air vehicle subsystem development constraints.
• Vendor surveys and evaluation to support sourcing for system components.
• Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.
• Build up and test system components through lab, ground, and flight tests.
• Low level firmware development for bring-up and test.
• Root cause analysis in support of field operations.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
• Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB.
• Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
• Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, Eagle and others acceptable).
• Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity.
• Test experience including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination.
• Ability to travel as required for testing (surges up to 25%).
• Passion for defending the United States and her allies.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or Robotics.
• Recent graduates are welcome to apply if they bring a technical internship or standout leadership experience from an engineering club (FSAE/EV, UAVs, robotics, avionics, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active U.S. security clearance (DoD Secret or Top-Secret or DOE L or Q).
• 5-10 years’ work experience as an individual contributing engineer, focused on electrical design, analysis, and testing of fuzing and/or ordnance systems.
• Understanding of DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160 and relevant avionics design standards for UAS.
• Familiarity with electrical component suppliers.
• Experience in UAS, missiles, or maritime programs.
• Experience with the DoD Weapons Safety Boards.
• Experience designing and scaling production of components at volume.
• Experience developing or testing complex electrical systems.
• Experience with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-2105.
• Experience with JOTP-052 and JOTP-054.
• Experience with explosive operations and/or handling munitions.