Mercury Systems is looking for the world's best and brightest emerging talent. If you want to tell people WHY you do what you do, rather than simply WHAT you do, Mercury is calling. Our Purpose, Innovation That Matters, inspires our people in making trusted, secure, mission-critical solutions profoundly more accessible to aerospace and defense. We bridge the gap between commercial technology and defense applications to address the industry's most pressing high-tech needs. Why? To help create a safer, more secure world.

Summary

As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be the lead product hardware designer working as part of a collaborative team to design cutting edge products. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of the hardware system. You will drive hardware decisions during all phases of the product lifecycle and will collaborate with our world class firmware, software, and RF designers to implement final product.

You will be a part of a world-class Engineering Team, a leading provider of dense, rugged, secure microelectronics solutions for next generation defense applications. As a part of our Microwave Business Unit, together we design, develop, and produce high-value radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave subassemblies and components for military and space markets. We are an agile team focused on delivering innovative, high-quality products to our customers on time and on budget.

Location: Oxnard, CA

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineering team to design modular, open-architecture hardware platforms
• Lead component selection process to meet design requirements
• Circuit board design: from schematic capture to layout, test, and documentation
• Develop the functional specifications for data conversion and processing electronics
• Ensure that PCB layout meets design requirements
• Collaborate with PCB layout designers to ensure that performance requirements can be met
• Consult with the Mechanical design team to develop product designs
• Capture system specifications and performance requirements
• Work with customer support team to reproduce and resolve customer issues
• Lead design team in bring-up and test of hardware products
• Develop device verification tests to verify product capabilities and requirements
• Support the execution of verification and validation testing
• Responsible for the release of the engineering design package
• Communicate project status and risks to executive team
• Consult on technical proposals and system design
• Full life cycle product development
• Drive processes for defining and documenting system and subsystem architectures including new features and expanded technical capabilities on the technical roadmap, such as system-on-chip (SoC), flash memory, and high-speed electronics
• Identify and lead improvements and optimizations and sets the standard for architecture maintenance activities
• Provide technical oversight to the implementation team based on defined architecture considering standards such as FACE, MOSA, and HOST
• Sustainment of released products
• End-of-Life (EOL) planning of major components in existing products
• Develop hardware improvements to resolve issues encountered in released products
• Engage in process improvements to resolve issues in design and manufacturing
• Supporting operations with transition of new design to production
• Supporting peer design reviews and process improvements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and minimum of 8 years of electrical engineering experience in design, manufacturing, or sustainment or a Graduate Degree (MS/PhD) and a minimum of 6 years of prior related work experience
• Experienced with complex Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design process
• Familiar with FPGA and Programmable Logic design: from architecture and design to simulation, verification, and validation
• This position requires you to have or are able to obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience as a technical lead or team leader
• Experience with Xilinx and Altera design flows
• Experience with digital hardware design (i.e., MCU, SPI, RS232/485, etc.)
• Skilled at PCB layout analysis and review (Cadence, Allegro)
• Experience using Hardware Engineering Design tools such as Cadence Concept, Cadence Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, SPICE, HyperLynx, Mentor Graphics Valydate
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as SATA, I2C, ARINC 429, RS-422, RS-232
• Experience with military test standards, such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704
• Experience with system level troubleshooting for digital, analog, and power circuits
• Experience with environmental chamber and stress testing
• Experience with scripting and diagnostics
• Experience with requirements traceability tools such as JAMA, DOORS
• Design with Industrial and Military Grade Components and Operating Environments
• Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Cost (DFC)
• Design with Radiation Tolerant Grade Components and Operating Environments
• Knowledgeable on high-speed serial communication design and layout best practices

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• The role and related responsibilities
• Prior work experience
• Education, training, skills and certifications
• Internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles
• Geographic location
• Alignment with market data

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• Bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions)
• Health, life and disability insurance
• Company-paid holidays and time off
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including LinkedIn Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv, and Virgin Pulse

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location).

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

Our Culture

We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

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