Electrical Engineer – Advanced Embedded & Electronic Systems

Job Description: Electrical Engineer – Advanced Embedded & Electronic Systems

An active Top Secret clearance is required and the role is 100% onsite.

Must‑Have Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering — Required

Core Technical Experience

(Minimum 5 years each)

• Circuit Architectures and Algorithms
• Device Layout
• Analog Electronics
• Digital Electronics
• Power Electronics
• Electronic Test Equipment
• General Electronics Expertise (Analog + Digital)
• New Circuit Characterization & Qualification
• New Circuit Debug
• Radiation‑Hardened Electronics
• Reconfigurable Circuits

Software

• SPICE — 5 years

Systems / Tools

• Circuit board design using Mentor Graphics Xpedition, DxDesigner, or equivalent — 5 years

Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance — Required

Nice‑to‑Have Skills

Hardware / Embedded

• Real‑Time Embedded Systems (RTOS, VxWorks, Xenomai, Linux)

Programming

• C / C++

Role Overview

The client is seeking a highly experienced Electrical Engineer to support software and electronics development for advanced embedded and electrical systems in high‑reliability aerospace and defense environments.
This role blends real-time embedded software, electrical hardware design, and system integration for mission‑critical prototypes.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to define architecture and derive hardware/software requirements
• Design, simulate, and implement analog, digital, and power circuitry
• Perform schematic capture and PCB layout
• Conduct system trade studies and hardware/software performance benchmarking
• Debug, characterize, and qualify new circuits and embedded systems
• Use lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, signal generators, etc.) for validation and troubleshooting
• Document designs, test results, and system performance

Required Technical Qualifications

• Extensive experience with real‑time embedded systems for hardware control
• Experience integrating embedded software with physical hardware
• Strong background in analog, digital, and power circuit design
• Full hardware lifecycle experience: design → schematic capture → layout → debug → test
• SPICE modeling & circuit simulation expertise
• Experience with Mentor Graphics / Xpedition / DxDesigner or similar tools
• Experience with power electronics and control/conversion systems

Preferred Skills

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded applications
• Experience with RTOS environments (VxWorks, real-time Linux, Xenomai)
• Experience with multi-threaded, interrupt-driven, deterministic systems

Work Environment

• Onsite only (no virtual/remote)
• Due to classified work, candidates must hold an ACTIVE Top Secret clearance
• Interview process:
• Initial technical screening
• Second‑round panel interview (in person for local candidates; virtual for relocation candidates)