What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer (aerospace/medical devices) position at ALTEN Technology USA?
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000 experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000 engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Summary
As a member of our electrical team, you will work in multi-disciplinary project teams to architect and develop systems for a wide variety of markets including consumer products, medical devices, space systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and industrial controls. You may occasionally support the sales team as we bid and quote on incoming work and leverage. You’ll have the opportunity to showcase your talents as you integrate yourself into our project teams, working closely with other disciplines as well as senior electrical team members. On these teams you will at times work closely with a senior staff member and at other times work autonomously to deliver electronics designs and products.
How You Will Spend Your Time
Design Work
You’ll spend most of your time working to design hardware architectures, power budgets, electrical block diagrams, schematics and PCBs. You’ll get your hands dirty and own your designs from start to finish, involving other team members as appropriate to ensure that our designs are successful. This includes layout, bring-up and debug, documentation and verification. You’ll participate in design reviews on a regular basis. This will occasionally include travel to customer sites for project kickoffs or deliveries.
Sales Support
You may occasionally work with our account managers and project managers to bid and scope projects with our customers, including visiting customer sites to discuss our capabilities.
Who You Are
You’re several years into your career and have demonstrated a knack for picking up new skills and technologies quickly and efficiently. You engage in learning and taking on new challenges. You love to own your designs from cradle to grave. As a result, you are deeply invested in making sure that your work meets the expectations of peers and customers. You have outstanding attention to detail. You adapt well to changing circumstances.
Above all, people refer to you as an outstanding team member that they enjoy working with.
Minimum Qualifications
Duration: 2-3 months
Salary Range: $90K-$115K
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000 engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Summary
As a member of our electrical team, you will work in multi-disciplinary project teams to architect and develop systems for a wide variety of markets including consumer products, medical devices, space systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and industrial controls. You may occasionally support the sales team as we bid and quote on incoming work and leverage. You’ll have the opportunity to showcase your talents as you integrate yourself into our project teams, working closely with other disciplines as well as senior electrical team members. On these teams you will at times work closely with a senior staff member and at other times work autonomously to deliver electronics designs and products.
How You Will Spend Your Time
Design Work
You’ll spend most of your time working to design hardware architectures, power budgets, electrical block diagrams, schematics and PCBs. You’ll get your hands dirty and own your designs from start to finish, involving other team members as appropriate to ensure that our designs are successful. This includes layout, bring-up and debug, documentation and verification. You’ll participate in design reviews on a regular basis. This will occasionally include travel to customer sites for project kickoffs or deliveries.
Sales Support
You may occasionally work with our account managers and project managers to bid and scope projects with our customers, including visiting customer sites to discuss our capabilities.
Who You Are
You’re several years into your career and have demonstrated a knack for picking up new skills and technologies quickly and efficiently. You engage in learning and taking on new challenges. You love to own your designs from cradle to grave. As a result, you are deeply invested in making sure that your work meets the expectations of peers and customers. You have outstanding attention to detail. You adapt well to changing circumstances.
Above all, people refer to you as an outstanding team member that they enjoy working with.
Minimum Qualifications
- Design and layout experience including several of the following:
- Microcontrollers, processors and FPGAs in embedded systems
- Controlled impedance for high-speed channel design or RF technologies (10GbE, 802.11, SerDes, PCIe)
- Communications interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-485, USB, SDIO, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, LVDS, etc.)
- DC/DC converters and topologies
- EMI/EMC and Signal Integrity analysis
- Analog and sensor interface design
- Lab troubleshooting and debug experience of PCB assemblies with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, etc.
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from an accredited technical college or university in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 3 years of experience.
Duration: 2-3 months
Salary Range: $90K-$115K
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.
Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Salary : $90,000 - $115,000