Electrical Engineer

Job Description

ECS is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA .

As an Electrical Engineer, you will work on high performance RF systems used for Radar and Flight Termination System (FTS). Based on system requirements, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary engineering team of RF Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Software Engineers, to derive solutions, perform verification testing, and troubleshoot any issues. A successful candidate will solve complex problems and complete hardware and firmware designs and perform hands on testing.

• Analyze customer requirements and derive detailed system, subsystem, and component-level specifications to drive electronic designs.
• Participate in major reviews such as: Systems Requirements Review (SRR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Critical Design Review (CDR), and Test Readiness Review (TRR).
• Develop Electrical Designs at various levels from component-level up to system-level to meet customer requirements and specifications.
• Develop and perform Acceptance Test Procedures (ATPs) for electronic assemblies and systems.
• Develop test scripts for automated testing.
• Integrate Custom and Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and sub-assemblies to create complex RF systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation on design, user manuals/guides, and testing procedures.
• Contribute technology innovation discussions with coworkers and stakeholders to help advance the ECS mission.
• Occasional domestic and international travel (up to 15% of the time, several times a year) to support installations, testing and other project related activities.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering , Computer Engineer, or a related field, with 3-5 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, with 1-3 years related experience.
• Experience performing Schematic Capture and PCB Layout of multi-layer PCBs.
• Experience in digital circuit designs for FPGAs, microcontrollers or processors, and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
• In depth knowledge of engineering standards, theories, concepts, and techniques relevant to electrical and electronic systems.
• Proven experience with circuit design, testing, and troubleshooting for analog and
• Proficient in creating custom test configurations and operating test equipment, such as Signal Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Digital Multi-Meter (DMM), Signal Generators, Network Analyzers (PNAs/VNAs), Power Meters, Frequency Counters, and Logic Analyzers, to support the testing and verification of electronic systems in various applications, including communications, radar, and computing.
• Experience developing and publishing technical content from concept to completion, including test procedures, test reports, engineering analyses, white papers, operations/user manuals, and design review materials, in collaboration with engineers, technicians, and stakeholders.
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government DoD Security Clearance.

Desired Skills

• 3+ years in electronic circuit analysis and design applications, such as:
  • Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
  • SPICE/PSPICE
  • MATLAB
  • Keysight Pathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office or Ansys HFSS
  • ModelSim, Vivado, Vitis or Quartus
• 3+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with designing/debugging high speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
• Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq UltraScape+ RFSoCs.
• Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit modeling, analysis and design and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• Experience with high-speed digital design, including signal integrity and clock domain crossing.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT).
• Coursework or direct experience with radar systems, including:
  • Radar system design and analysis
  • Radar signal processing and simulation
• Understanding of basic RF and microwave engineering principles, including:
  • Transmission lines and matching networks
  • Filter design and analysis
  • Harmonic balance and non-linear effects
  • Cascaded noise figure and signal-to-noise analyses
  • Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Interference (RFI/EMI) effects and mitigation techniques
  • Time- and frequency-domain relationships and analysis techniques
• Active US Government DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.

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ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3300+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.