Electrical Designer - Industrial Equipment

Strategic Sight Consulting, LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Sight Consulting LLC in Maryland seeks an Electrical Engineer with expertise in embedded systems and flight-control hardware to design, develop, and integrate embedded electronics for unmanned and autonomous platforms. The role covers system architecture, schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and rigorous testing.

The candidate will collaborate across software, mechanical, and autonomies teams to integrate flight controllers, sensors, cameras, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Experience designing and developing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design, PCB development, and hardware bring-up.
• Experience developing, modifying, or debugging embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other lab equipment.
• Ability to integrate sensors, communications devices, and other peripherals into embedded platforms.
• Experience developing hardware for UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace platforms.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers to integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms.
• Support circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems for unmanned, autonomous platforms.
• Rapidly prototype, integrate, test, and mature embedded hardware capabilities in support of operational and test platforms.

Skills

Embedded systems design

Firmware in C/C++

Hardware bring-up

Schematic design

PCB development

Oscilloscope troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related

Tools

STM32

NXP

TI

Microchip

NVIDIA Jetson

Raspberry Pi Compute Module

Job description

Join our team at Strategic Sight Consulting LLC for an opportunity as an Electrical Engineer - Embedded Systems / Flight Control Hardware. The esteemed candidate will design and develop embedded electronic systems supporting unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms for critical national security missions. Provide hands-on engineering support from system architecture and component selection through schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing.

• Work closely with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers to integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms.


• Support circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems for unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms.


• Rapidly prototype, integrate, test, and mature embedded hardware capabilities in support of operational and test platforms.

Active TS/SCI security clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.


• Experience designing and developing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design, component selection, PCB development, and hardware bring-up.


• Experience developing, modifying, or debugging embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar languages.


• Hands-on experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other laboratory equipment.


• Ability to integrate sensors, communications devices, and other peripherals into embedded platforms.

Experience developing hardware for UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace platforms.

• Experience integrating cameras, image sensors, video processing hardware, or electro-optical systems.


• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS environments, or bare-metal firmware development.


• Familiarity with STM32, NXP, TI, Microchip, NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi Compute Module, or similar embedded platforms.


• Experience with PCB layout considerations for mixed-signal, high-speed digital, or compact embedded systems.


• Experience rapidly prototyping and integrating custom embedded hardware into operational or test platforms.

Strategic Sight Consulting is a business and technology consulting agency providing valuable product and business development strategies for early-stage entrepreneurs and government agencies. We guide entrepreneurs through the product development life cycle for marketplace success and partner with federal organizations to help build their technical vision and global operations.