What are the responsibilities and job description for the Prin. Electrical Design Engineer position at Mercury Systems?
Job Summary:
Mercury Systems IPS Data Processing business unit is developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments. We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as well as still making individual technical contributions on the team. The candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a world class electrical engineering team that involves in complete hardware development life cycle of new products to bring cutting-edge technology to mission-critical aerospace and defense applications. Your talent will be utilized to bridge commercial innovation with defense-grade security to ensure our warfighters and allies have the technological advantage.
This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering team to design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules or systems to meet requirements
- Lead engineering efforts to support production to resolve manufacturing issues or field failure investigation
- Create engineering design guidelines, work instructions and checklists for design consistency and process improvement to reduce future development cost
- Lead efforts to improve design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA) and design for test (DFT)
- Provide technical leadership for new and on-going projects
- Act as technical liaison with Manufacturing, Operations and Program Management
- Provide technical expertise and experience to assist Program Managers and Technical Project Managers to develop cost estimate and integrated master schedule to ensure they are clearly defined
Required Qualifications:
- BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (Master’s preferred)
- Ideally 6 years electrical/hardware engineering experience
- Experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as FPGA, PCIe, SATA, I2C, ARINC 429, Ethernet
- Experience with military test standards, such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704
- Experience with airborne electronic hardware certification process.
- Experience using hardware engineering design tools, such as Cadence Concept, Cadence Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, SPICE, HyperLynx, Mentor Graphics Valydate
- Expert knowledge in the use of digital test equipment such as spectrum analyzer and high-speed oscilloscopes.
- Experience with design documentation and interpreting customer requirements
- Experience multi-tasking on multiple projects
- Experience leading projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- An active DoD Secret Clearance
- Experience with Video input and output processing
- Experience in Power Design
- Experience working on proposals and schedule/cost estimates
- Experience with Intel CPU design
- Working knowledge of VITA design standards (VITA 42, 46, 62, 65)
Locations:
- This position is hybrid and can be located at one of the following Mercury Systems Locations:
- Phoenix, AZ
- Cypress, CA
- Torrance, CA
- Enjoy every other Friday off with our 9/80 work schedule!
This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government."