Aerospace Electrical Systems Architect

Bascom Hunter; Baton Rouge, Northern (LA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bascom Hunter seeks a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer to lead definition, integration, and verification of aerospace electrical systems for defense applications in Baton Rouge. You will own system architecture, allocate requirements, and coordinate cross‑functional teams to support design reviews and production readiness.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and interface with suppliers to ensure robust electrical solutions for 28 VDC and 270 VDC aircraft power,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant electrical systems engineering, subsystem development, or system integration.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned electrical system deliverables and drive risk resolution.
• Coordinate interfaces across electrical, mechanical, hardware, FPGA, and software; resolve conflicting requirements and integration dependencies.
• Develop engineering task estimates, track technical progress, and communicate impacts to program cost and schedule.
• Conduct trade studies addressing performance, size, weight, power, cost, reliability, and component availability.
• Provide technical direction to suppliers and manufacturing partners, and mentor less experienced engineers through design reviews and troubleshooting.
• Lead electrical content for internal and customer preliminary design, critical design, and test readiness reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR).
• Define system boundaries, functional architectures, and the allocation of functions among control electronics, motor drives, power distribution, sensors, and actuators.
• Develop electrical block diagrams and interconnection schematics; review subsystem designs for compatibility with system requirements and interfaces.
• Collaborate with FPGA and software engineers to develop operating modes, startup and shutdown sequences, built-in test, fault reporting, and degraded operation strategies.
• Define and own electrical architectures for 28 VDC and 270 VDC aircraft power, including distribution, conversion, load interfaces, and protection coordination.
• Translate customer and system requirements into measurable subsystem requirements; maintain traceability, verification methods, and technical compliance status.
• Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) defining power characteristics, signal levels, pin assignments, communications, timing, and fault behavior.
• Develop electrical load and power budgets, voltage-drop and margin analyses, and assessments of inrush, transients, power interruptions, and operating limits.
• Define electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS) architecture, including harness topology, wire sizing, connector selection, signal segregation, and shielding; review drawings with harness designers.
• Allocate electrical spacing, insulation, derating, and thermal requirements across subsystems, accounting for voltage, temperature, and altitude.
• Apply program-specific wiring and workmanship requirements, including AS50881 and IPC/WHMA-A-620 where applicable.
• Own the system grounding, bonding, shielding, and EMI/EMC strategy; coordinate filtering and protection requirements across electronics, harnesses, and enclosures.
• Develop integration and verification plans, compliance matrices, test configurations, representative loads, and pass/fail criteria; coordinate subsystem DVT with system verification.
• Contribute electrical inputs to failure modes and effects analyses (FMEA/FMECA), assess fault propagation across subsystem boundaries, and track mitigation actions.
• Lead hands-on system integration and troubleshooting; isolate power, signal, communications, timing, and control issues across hardware and software interfaces.

Skills

Electrical systems engineering

Requirements development

Interface definition

System verification

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Altium Designer

LabVIEW

SolidWorks Electrical

Job description

Bascom Hunter seeks a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer to lead definition, integration, and verification of aerospace electrical systems for defense applications in Baton Rouge. You will own system architecture, allocate requirements, and coordinate cross‑functional teams to support design reviews and production readiness.

In this role you will mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and interface with suppliers to ensure robust electrical solutions for 28 VDC and 270 VDC aircraft power,