What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Electrical Engineer position at SAIC?
Job ID: 2612378
Location: Huntsville, AL, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-08
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Electrical Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC has an immediate need for a Senior Electrical Engineer supporting a team providing hardware and software development solutions to the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center S3I located in Huntsville, AL.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile Center Systems Simulation Software & Integration (S3I) Directorate, SAIC develops and integrates advanced technologies during the entire life cycle of fielded Army aviation and missile systems. Representative examples include air and ballistic missile defense, fire support, close combat, manned and unmanned aviation, command, control and communications; interoperability, intelligence/surveillance, and automatic test equipment.
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Qualifications
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Location: Huntsville, AL, US
Date Posted: 2026-05-08
Category: Engineering and Sciences
Subcategory: Electrical Engr
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes - 10% of the time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE
Description
SAIC has an immediate need for a Senior Electrical Engineer supporting a team providing hardware and software development solutions to the CCDC Aviation & Missile Center S3I located in Huntsville, AL.
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Aviation & Missile Center Systems Simulation Software & Integration (S3I) Directorate, SAIC develops and integrates advanced technologies during the entire life cycle of fielded Army aviation and missile systems. Representative examples include air and ballistic missile defense, fire support, close combat, manned and unmanned aviation, command, control and communications; interoperability, intelligence/surveillance, and automatic test equipment.
Duties:
- Identifying and managing electrical/electronic hardware requirements.
- Performing circuit design, analysis, simulation and component selection for high availability, high reliability and low Size, Weight and Power (SWAP) environments.
- Collaborating with PCB Layout and Circuit Card Assembly Teams
- Performing initial checkout and debugging of prototype printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies.
- Generating and Reviewing documentation for a Technical Data Package (TDP) associated with the design, development, unit test, and integration of hardware/firmware components.
- Assessing technical and integration risk and identifying mitigations.
- Witnessing integration and test activities, reviewing test plans and procedures, reviewing and adjudicating Deficiency Reports.
- Reviewing relevant milestone contract deliverables and providing recommendations across the life cycle of development efforts.
Qualifications
Required Education/Experience:
- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering plus a minimum of nine (9) years of experience; six (6) years of experience accepted in lieu of degree.
Required Skills:
- Knowledge and practical experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Embedded microcontroller hardware/firmware design and development
- FPGA firmware design, development, verification
- High speed digital design (e.g. DDR3/DDR4)
- Analog design for data acquisition systems
- Switch mode power supply design
- Motor control
- Design for EMC (MIL-STD-461) and Environmental (MIL-STD-810) compliance
- National Instruments LabView
- Proficient using MS Office suite, MS Visio, schematic capture program such as Altium Designer, circuit simulation program such as PSpice.
- Excellent communication skills and mechanical aptitude.
- Design experience of military radar systems, electronic countermeasures, weapon fire control systems, missile launcher electronic systems and/or missile interface simulators.
Required Clearance:
- Active SECRET Security Clearance.