Electrical Engineer

CACI; Florham Park (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI in Florham Park, New Jersey, is seeking a skilled Electrical Engineer to design, develop, and evaluate electronic hardware including FPGA-based solutions for complex electronic equipment.

You will work across analog and digital circuits, develop firmware for embedded processors, and collaborate with engineers to deliver robust hardware and firmware. A Top Secret clearance is required to start and travel is up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Ability to interpret schematics and PCB layouts for analog/digital circuits.
• Experience with FPGA design and embedded C/C++ for processors.
• Familiarity with lab benchtop equipment and instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Characterize electronic systems and document schematics, PCB layouts, and HDL diagrams.
• Analyze analog and mixed-signal circuits; measure gain, bandwidth, noise, and linearity.
• Work with SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, and Ethernet; implement interfaces in HDL or firmware.
• Develop FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog and perform timing closure and verification.
• Develop embedded firmware, device drivers, and hardware abstraction layers.
• Characterize RF and analog signals and support RF processing in FPGA when needed.
• Encode/decode RF modulation types and contribute to DSP implementations.
• Prepare technical reports and briefings with characterization data and analyses.

Skills

FPGA development

Embedded C/C++

VHDL/Verilog

Schematic interpretation

Firmware debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum analyzers

Logic analyzers

Power supplies

Job description

Job Title: Electrical Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

The Opportunity:

Responsible for designing, developing, modifying, and evaluating electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, printed circuit boards, and FPGA-based solutions for electronic equipment, hardware systems, and electrical engineering applications. Duties may include designing FPGA logic using VHDL/Verilog, developing firmware for soft-core and embedded processors, analyzing analog and digital circuits on equipment and printed circuit boards to establish operating data, conducting experimental tests and evaluating results, as well as selecting FPGA devices, components and equipment based on analysis of specifications, performance requirements, and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Characterize and document electronic systems: Research circuit components, printed circuit boards, FPGA architectures, and embedded systems; create detailed schematics, PCB layouts, HDL block diagrams, and firmware documentation; perform laboratory environment time and frequency domain tests and measurements to understand analog and digital circuit functions, FPGA logic behavior, and device operational purpose.
• Analyze analog and mixed-signal circuits: Evaluate analog signal conditioning, power supply circuits, amplifiers, filters, ADC/DAC interfaces, and analog-to-digital conversion stages; measure and characterize analog performance parameters such as gain, bandwidth, noise, and linearity.
• Analyze communication bus protocols: Work with various digital communication protocols like SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, and Ethernet to understand data flow within devices and across printed circuit boards; implement and debug protocol interfaces in FPGA fabric and embedded firmware.
• Design and implement FPGA solutions: Develop digital logic designs using VHDL/Verilog for signal processing, control systems, and custom interfaces; perform synthesis, place-and-route, and timing closure; conduct simulation and verification of FPGA designs for PCB integration, including interfaces to analog circuitry.
• Develop embedded firmware: Write and optimize firmware for soft-core processors and other embedded processors; develop bare-metal code, device drivers, and hardware abstraction layers for analog sensors and mixed-signal peripherals; debug firmware using JTAG and other tools.
• Characterize RF and analog signals: Measure and analyze radio frequency (RF) and analog signals from electronic devices and printed circuit boards to identify physical layer characteristics such as basic modulation schemes, operating frequencies, occupied bandwidths, transmission power, signal integrity, and analog performance metrics; support implementation of RF processing algorithms in FPGA when applicable.
• Encode and decode modulation: Support the analysis, encoding, and decoding of different RF modulation types to extract data and understand signal encoding; contribute to the development of digital signal processing implementations for modulation and demodulation.
• Contribute to technical reports: Integrate device characterization data, analog and digital circuit analysis, PCB analysis, FPGA design documentation, firmware architecture descriptions, and analysis summaries into coherent and comprehensive reports and briefings.
• Research emerging technologies: Stay current with new electronic technologies, analog and mixed-signal design techniques, printed circuit board design techniques, FPGA devices, embedded processors, development tools, and analytical techniques.
• Collaborate with experts: Work alongside skilled engineers and subject matter experts to tackle challenging problems in analog and digital hardware design, printed circuit board analysis, FPGA implementation, and firmware development to find innovative solutions.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Proficiency in interpreting and understanding electronic schematics, printed circuit board layouts, FPGA block diagrams, and firmware architectures for both analog and digital circuits.
• Solid understanding of electronic components and their functions, with an emphasis on analyzing analog and digital electronic circuits, printed circuit boards, and digital logic designs.
• Experience with laboratory benchtop equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, signal generators, multimeters, and power supplies.
• Experience with VHDL or Verilog programming for FPGA development.
• Experience with embedded programming in C/C++ for microcontrollers or processors.
• Experience with communication bus protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, and Ethernet, including implementation in HDL or firmware.
• Capable of wr