What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2616341-OTHLOC-100000685975249
Location: Hanahan, SC, US
Date Posted: 2026-08-31
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Electrical Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Secret
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC is seeking an Electrical Engineer for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.
Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):
- Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors
- Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD)
- Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence
- Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems
- Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience; four (4) years additional in lieu of degree
- Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components (C , microPython, circuitPython, standard Python)
- Development of DC power distribution architectures
- IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems
Required Clearance:
- No clearance required to start, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance
Desired Skills:
- Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance
- Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments
- Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight
- Knowledge of standard RF principles
- Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols (desired)
- PCB design for DC power distribution.in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design (desired)