Demo

Principal Electrical Design Engineer

Mercury Systems
Torrance, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/5/2025

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 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 
  • An Active DoD Secret Clearance


Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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:
  • 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."

 

See job ID #: 25-489, #25-496, #25-483, #25-430 (EE III)


Careers Page Link: https://www.mrcy.com/careers


Salary.com Estimation for Principal Electrical Design Engineer in Torrance, CA
$116,157 to $138,618
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Principal Electrical Design Engineer?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Principal Electrical Design Engineer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$90,267 - $107,792
Income Estimation: 
$125,799 - $152,617
Income Estimation: 
$110,220 - $132,692
Income Estimation: 
$111,195 - $140,107
Income Estimation: 
$126,558 - $144,904
Income Estimation: 
$110,220 - $132,692
Income Estimation: 
$151,084 - $181,738
Income Estimation: 
$133,507 - $160,824
Income Estimation: 
$136,663 - $175,160
Income Estimation: 
$157,953 - $182,694
Income Estimation: 
$133,507 - $160,824
Income Estimation: 
$188,927 - $229,849
Income Estimation: 
$163,041 - $197,583
Income Estimation: 
$171,178 - $212,692
Income Estimation: 
$188,211 - $213,397
Income Estimation: 
$157,897 - $195,622
Income Estimation: 
$192,036 - $238,554
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Mercury Systems

Mercury Systems
Hired Organization Address Torrance, CA Full Time
Mercury Systems is looking for the world’s best and brightest emerging talent. If you want to tell people WHY you do wha...
Mercury Systems
Hired Organization Address Hudson, NH Full Time
Back Electro-Mechanical Assembler #25-201 Hudson, New Hampshire, United States Apply X Facebook LinkedIn Email Copy Job ...
Mercury Systems
Hired Organization Address Andover, MA Full Time
Back 3d Hardware Electrical Engineer II #25-478 Andover, Massachusetts, United States Apply X Facebook LinkedIn Email Co...
Mercury Systems
Hired Organization Address Phoenix, AZ Full Time
Mercury Systems is seeking the best and brightest talent to help us bring cutting edge technology to mission critical ae...

Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Principal Electrical Design Engineer jobs in the Torrance, CA area that may be a better fit.

Principal Mechanical Design Engineer

Honeywell, Torrance, CA

Electrical Design Engineer - P2S

Legence Therma LLC, Long Beach, CA

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!