Electrical Engineer

Trak Tecom Corporation; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Trak Tecom Corporation, based in Florida, seeks an Electrical Engineer to lead analog and digital hardware development for aerospace and defense applications. You will own research, design, prototyping, verification, and sustainment across modules, subsystems, and boards.

U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a Government security clearance; 5–10 years of hands-on experience is expected, with a BSEE degree and proficiency in PSPICE and VHDL.

Qualifications

• The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and strong hands-on hardware experience.
• Expertise in analog and digital hardware development with lifecycle involvement.
• Citizenship and security clearance requirements apply for government-related work.

Responsibilities

• Have technical responsibility for analog and digital hardware within our products, including hardware description in firmware.
• Participate in the full product lifecycle for aerospace/defense modules and systems.
• Collaborate in an IPT with program management, quality, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Perform research, architecture trades, circuit analysis, PCB design, prototyping, verification, and sustainment.

Skills

Analog and digital hardware

ADC/DAC hardware implementation

RS-232/422/485 interfaces

Multi-layer PCBs

PSPICE simulations

VHDL hardware description

DC-DC power conversion

EMI and transient protection

MCUs and PLDs

Education

BSEE

Tools

PSPICE

VHDL

Job description

Description

TRAK TECOM designs, builds, and delivers advanced RF electronic solutions and antenna systems for mission-critical performance across the aerospace and defense industry.

Our RF microwave and antenna solutions support Electronic Warfare (EW), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Radar, Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), Telemetry, Tracking, Command & Datalink, and Communications helping customers achieve reliability, resilience, and high performance in the harshest operating environments.

We are currently seeking an Electrical Engineer to work in an integrated process team environment, with technical responsibility for all of the following, regarding analog and digital hardware: research, architecture trades, estimating recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analysis, proposals, selection, development, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment. U.S. citizenship required. U.S. Citizenship is required to obtain a Government security clearance.

Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Have technical responsibility for all aspects of the analog and digital hardware within our products, inclusive of hardware description in firmware, exclusive of RF/uW/mmW hardware and embedded and application software
• Participate in the entire product lifecycle for bespoke electronics modules, subsystems, and systems for the aerospace and defense market, including for RADAR, EW, SIGINT, comm, and satcom.
• Work in an integrated process team (IPT) environment, along with program management, quality, manufacturing, supply chain, and other engineering disciplines
• Perform all of the following activities for analog and digital hardware: research, architecture trades, estimate recurring and non-recurring hardware and activities, analyze circuits, write technical proposals, select integrated circuits, design printed circuit boards, prototyping, verification, customer support, manufacturing support, and sustainment.

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expertise with component-level design, analysis, prototyping, and verification of highly complex analog and digital circuitry
• Experience with hardware implementation of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion
• Experience with signaling interfaces such as RS-232/422/485, TTL, LVTTL, CMOS, LVCMOS, LVDS, SERDES
• Experience with schematic creation and layout of multi-layer mixed signal printed circuit boards (PCBs)
• Proficiency with component-level simulation tools such as PSPICE
• Proficiency with a hardware description language, preferably VHDL
• Experience with EMI filtering and transient voltage protection
• Experience selecting components and designing solutions for DC-to-DC power conversion and linear voltage regulation
• Experience selecting interface signaling components, line receivers and drivers, microcontrollers, and PLDs

Experience:

5 to 10 years of progressively increasing experience and responsibility for analogue and digital hardware development

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (BSEE)

Travel:

Up to 10 % required or as business needs require, predominately within continental U.S.

Security:

U.S. citizenship required. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a government security clearance.