Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems is hiring for a Principal Backplane Design Engineer. This role will be supporting engineering development, integration, test and transition to production efforts on complex electronic backplanes and will provide electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team.
Responsibilities
- Design of complex high speed digital circuit card assemblies and backplanes
- Support test and troubleshooting modules and sub-assemblies of digital modules
- Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause
- Generate and implement improvements in product and test design and methodologies to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput
- Generate and review the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Engineering Change Orders, and other documentation
- Interface with customers and suppliers as required
- Support Root Cause and Corrective Action activities
- Mentor peers and more junior engineers in areas of expertise
Skills
- High speed digital design of circuit card assemblies and high speed backplanes
- Experience with the design, build, integration and/or test of complex electronic systems
- Able to research and apply electrical engineering principles and theories to solve electrical engineering problems
- Motivated self-starter with leadership skills and ability to effectively work in a team environment
- Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability
- Ability to close on discrete tasking in a timely manner and lead others to closure - Own the Design
- Experience presenting technical information to program teams and/or customers
- Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills
- Active Secret Clearance
- Industrial temperature or better digital circuit card and backplane design
- FPGA based circuit card design
- PCIe, Ethernet, SERDES
- Cadence CAD based schematic capture and simulation
- Able to direct layout and routing rules
- Team player
- Demonstrated design success - meet difficult design requirements
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