What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer position at Peraton Labs?
About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
The successful candidate will possess the ability to work semi-independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to analyze and design electronics and electrical systems. Additionally, developing embedded devices and modules to power, generate, and receive signals for prototypes and field-deployable systems is a critical component of this job. The ability to read, comprehend and generate professional quality design documentation is a required capability for this position.
Job Purpose
This position will support the design, development, testing and operational phases of projects
undertaken at PERATON Labs, the research and development arm of PERATON corporation. This position requires the successful candidate to work closely with a diverse team of engineering, scientific and technical staff to develop novel solutions in support of such projects.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
Qualifications
Required Education and Work Experience
The successful candidate has diversified knowledge of principles and practices in engineering.
A degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering is required with the following experience levels:
Required Skills/Attributes
Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
The successful candidate will possess the ability to work semi-independently in a small multi-disciplinary team utilizing their experience to analyze and design electronics and electrical systems. Additionally, developing embedded devices and modules to power, generate, and receive signals for prototypes and field-deployable systems is a critical component of this job. The ability to read, comprehend and generate professional quality design documentation is a required capability for this position.
Job Purpose
This position will support the design, development, testing and operational phases of projects
undertaken at PERATON Labs, the research and development arm of PERATON corporation. This position requires the successful candidate to work closely with a diverse team of engineering, scientific and technical staff to develop novel solutions in support of such projects.
Duties and Responsibilities Include:
- Designing, developing, and testing of experimental and production systems.
- Providing engineering oversight of junior technical staff when appropriate.
- Providing hands-on work to test electronics, diagnose failures and render repairs if needed.
- Developing and reviewing technical documentation packages including schematics, wiring diagrams, drawings, and test plans.
- Designing and supporting the development of embedded computing and signal processing designs, interfaces.
- Providing expertise in analyzing analog and digital circuitry with both documented and undocumented designs.
- Preparing design review material such as presentations, reports, simulation results, analysis and other key communicable components for both internal and external design reviews.
Qualifications
Required Education and Work Experience
The successful candidate has diversified knowledge of principles and practices in engineering.
A degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering is required with the following experience levels:
- BS with 5 or more years of experience.
- MS with 3 or more years of experience.
- PhD with 0 or more years of experience.
Required Skills/Attributes
- Experienced in generating and reading State Machine, Logic, Flow, and Interconnection Diagrams.
- Experience with Schematic and PCB layout tools such as KiCad.
- Experience with simulation software (e.g., spice).
- Skilled in electrical circuit testing and analysis including prototyping sub-systems as required to produce a viable design.
- Experience creating electrical sub-systems and prototypes for field deployable systems using fully customized designs, or adapter modules to connect to existing equipment.
- Familiarity with lab/bench hardware such as oscilloscopes, power supplies (AC and DC), waveform generators and spectrum analyzers.
- Ability to communicate designs through presentations and comfortable presenting material for review to a wide audience.
- Familiar with C, C , Python, or MATLAB Simulink for automating data collection and analysis.
- Experience working with analog data acquisition and signal conditioning techniques.
- Experience with designing and troubleshooting cabling and interconnectivity.
- Proficient in writing technical documentation in MS word and PowerPoint.
- Ability to be onsite five days a week when required.
- Ability to obtain Secret clearance.
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Experience with mechanical or optical engineering.
- Experience with in-depth analysis of electrical systems for reverse engineering.
- Experience with using version control and configuration management.
Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Salary : $112,000 - $179,000