Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BAE Systems provides defense, aerospace, security, advanced electronics, and information technology products and services. The Principal Backplane Design Engineer will support the development, integration, testing, and production transition of complex electronic backplanes while providing electrical engineering support, driving defect resolution, and mentoring engineers.
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
- Clearance Level – Must be able to obtain for position: Secret
- U.S. Citizenship Required: Yes
- U.S. Person Required: Yes
- The successful candidate must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally within the hardware organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions
- Must be able to exercise discretion and independent judgment in technical areas
- 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
- Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience
- 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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