Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, security, and advanced electronics company. The Principal Electrical Engineer will support EO/IR seeker and precision munitions products as part of a hardware team, translating system requirements into architectures and complex PCB designs. The role also involves prototyping, design verification, documentation, mentoring, and managing work within schedule and budget constraints.
Responsibilities
- Translate system requirements into successful system architectures and complex printed board assembly designs
- Create board schematic and layouts using Cadence Allegro System Capture
- Perform trade studies and prototyping to down select critical components, develop optimized electronic architectural solutions (SWAP), verify complex custom circuit blocks of an overarching system
- Document design verification tests and design review documentation
- Actively participate in knowledge-sharing culture via mentoring
- Work within schedule and budget constraints and elevate concerns if challenges arise
Skills
- Clearance Level – Must be able to obtain for position: Secret
- Travel Percentage: <10%
- U.S. Citizenship Required: Yes
- U.S. Person Required: Yes
- * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
- * Minimum of four years of relevant experience in related industry (i.e. defense, electronics) or two years with a Master's Degree
- * Solid understanding of fundamentals of digital, analog, power, and mixed-signal electronics and interface/communication standards such as UART, SPI, QSPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, PCIe
- * PCB/CCA design experience, with an emphasis on DFA and DFM optimization, for complex rigid and rigid-flex mixed-signal HDI PCBs
- * Proficient at testing and troubleshooting analog, digital, and power supply-based circuits in a lab setting using oscilloscopes, bench supplies, vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, arbitrary waveform generators, function generators, logic analyzers
- * Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, RF Engineering, or equivalent
- * Familiarity designing with FPGAs, System-On-Chips (SoC), and/or CPLDs using VHDL and/or Verilog
- * Familiarity designing and writing embedded SW for microcontroller-based systems and modules
- * Knowledge of system level EMI mitigation techniques along with proper grounding/shielding architecture
- * Experience with high-speed mixed signal HDI PCB design, constraints management, and proper routing for interfaces with lane rates exceeding 1Gbps
- * Hands-on experience with high voltage testing with an emphasis on measurement safety
- * Experience with low noise, wide bandwidth, low power, Analog Front-End systems
- * Understanding of SPICE simulators and simulation methods, preferably using LTSpice, TINA, PSpice
- * Experience with the following PCB and CCA design features: micro-via and blind/buried vias, stacked micro-vias, via-in-pad and via fill/cap processes, controlled impedances, backdrilling, high pin count / fine-pitch BGAs, Chip-on-Board (COB), QFNs/DFNs, LGAs, and other advanced IC package types
- * Familiarity with phase/gain margin stability analysis and other small signal analysis techniques, as it applies to analog circuit design and switch-mode power supply design
- * Familiarity with Signal Integrity and Power Integrity, as it applies to proper layout techniques
- * Active DoD Security Clearance – Secret
- Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 6 years work experience or equivalent experience
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