Electrical Engineer

Torch Technologies, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

ESOP participation

401(k) match

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Paid time off

HSA

EAP

Education assistance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Flex spending accounts

Job summary

Torch Technologies, Inc. seeks an Electrical Engineer to develop an Automated Test System. This role involves selecting, integrating, and programming COTS modules, designing signal paths, and documenting the test system design.

Responsibilities include hardware development for automated test systems, software in C#, and creating comprehensive documentation. Work with a team to ensure effective test architectures for UUTs.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.
• Experience programming in C#, including software that interacts with hardware.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate electrical hardware for automated test systems, including interfaces, power, data acquisition, and cabling.
• Perform electrical analysis on signal integrity, grounding, and shielding.
• Develop software in C# to interface with test equipment and hardware.
• Support automated test applications, hardware control, measurement acquisition, and HAL interfaces.
• Collaborate with software and electrical engineers to integrate hardware into the test architecture.
• Manage equipment selection, configuration, and troubleshooting for PXI/PXIe and related hardware.
• Create and maintain technical documentation such as schematics, BOMs, ICDs, and test plans.

Skills

C#

Electrical engineering

Test automation

Hardware-software integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

PXI/PXIe

LabVIEW

NI TestStand

Altium Designer

CAN/Ethernet protocols

Job description

About Torch

Torch Technologies Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country. Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: “Lighting the Pathway of Freedom”. And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Position Overview

Torch Technologies is seeking an Electrical Engineer to develop an Automated Test System. This individual will be responsible for selecting, integrating, and programming COTS modules, designing signal paths, and documenting the design of the test system. This individual will also be involved in understanding the electrical characteristics of Units Under Tests and developing test plans for the UUTs.

As an Electrical Engineer supporting the Automated Test System, duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and integrate electrical hardware for automated test systems, including analog and digital signal interfaces, signal conditioning, power distribution and protection, switching, data acquisition, instrumentation, custom interface circuitry, cable assemblies, harnessing, and UUT interfaces.
• Perform electrical analysis involving signal integrity, grounding, shielding, loading, power, and thermal considerations.
• Develop software in C# to interface with test equipment, instrumentation, hardware devices, and other system components.
• Support development of automated test applications, hardware control, measurement acquisition, communication interfaces, troubleshooting utilities, and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) interfaces.
• Work with software and electrical engineers to integrate electrical hardware into the overall test architecture.
• Select, integrate, configure, and troubleshoot COTS test equipment including PXI/PXIe instrumentation, switching systems, programmable power supplies, data acquisition hardware, signal conditioning modules, and other laboratory or automated test equipment.
• Candidates are not required to have prior PXI experience but should be comfortable applying their electrical engineering and programming experience to learn and integrate new instrumentation and test technologies.
• Develop and maintain electrical and test system documentation including schematics, wiring diagrams, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), Bills of Material (BOMs), pin maps, cable drawings, manufacturing drawings, test plans, and hardware/software interface documentation.
• Support prototype development, hardware bring-up, system integration, verification and validation, fault isolation, root cause analysis, self-test/BIT development, design reviews, technical working groups, and customer briefings.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.
• Demonstrated experience supporting, developing, integrating, or leading electrical engineering projects involving electrical/electronic hardware.
• Experience programming in C#, including experience developing software that interacts with hardware, instrumentation, devices, interfaces, or engineering systems.
• Ability and willingness to work across electrical hardware and software disciplines to develop and integrate automated test solutions.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Experience developing automated test systems or other hardware/software integrated engineering systems.
• Experience communicating with or controlling instrumentation through software using interfaces or protocols such as Ethernet, USB, Serial, GPIB, VISA, SCPI, or similar technologies.
• Experience with PXI/PXIe architectures, modular instrumentation, switching systems, programmable power supplies, data acquisition equipment, or other COTS test equipment.
• Experience with NI TestStand, LabVIEW, or similar automated test software.
• Experience developing test sequences, test procedures, or automated verification applications.
• Experience with UUT testing, troubleshooting, verification, validation, or fault isolation.
• Experience with electrical design tools such as Altium Designer.
• Experience designing or integrating ATE interconnect solutions, Interface Test Adapters (ITAs), Virginia Panel systems, cable assemblies, or custom interface hardware.
• Experience with military or aerospace electrical interfaces and communication protocols such as MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, CAN, RS-422/485, Ethernet, or similar interfaces.
• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, automotive, industrial, laboratory, or other complex electrical/electronic systems.
• Experience applying AI tools to engineering activities, including hardware or software development.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) familiarity.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• ESOP participation
• 401(k) match
• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short-term disability
• long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• Health Saving Accounts
• Health Reimbursement Accounts
• EAP
• education assistance
• paid time off
• holidays

Job Details

Schedule: M-F; 8-5

Work Location: Torch site, Huntsville, Alabama

Travel: 0-10%

Relocation Assistance Available: No

Position Contingent Upon Award of Contract: No

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Torch Technologies, Inc. participates in E-Verify.

Employment at Torch Technologies is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background check.

Company Culture

Torch Technologies is dedicated to providing superior research, development, and engineering services to the Department of Defense. As defense contractors, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country.

From the CEO's desk… When Bill Roark and Don Holder founded Torch in 2002, they knew that employees were the company's greatest asset. They believed that offering employees a stake in the outcome, by making them all owners, was critical to building a successful organization. I share that feeling. Bill and Don's original intent was fully achieved in 2011 when Torch converted to a 100 percent S-Corp ESOP. Since that time, the company has grown over ten-fold and gained national recognition for the success we have demonstrated as an employee-owned company. Today, Torch continues to respect the individual contributions of our employee-owners and to share the rewards of our success.

In addition, we continue to foster an environment of employee recognition, respect, development, and comradery while striving to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We recognize that core to our company is a culture of trust with our employees, customers, business partners, and community. Our management team is committed to continue to earn that trust. This past year, Torch proudly announced that we were Certified Evergreen. A timely achievement for Torch employee-owners as they will celebrate Torch’s 20th anniversary this October, becoming Certified Evergreen signifies that Torch employee-owners can look back on Torch’s past with pride, Torch is also looking forward. Becoming Certified Evergreen means that Torch has committed to finding ways to make 100 percent employee ownership sustainable so that Torch will remain a private company forever. Going forward, Torch will continue to evolve to address market and technology changes in order to become a major provider of cost-effective technical services and solutions to the Warfighter. We are making significant investments into facilities, equipment, business systems, and research to enable us to provide innovations and timely business services to our clients. We feel that always looking to improve our service is key to sustaining customer trust in the future. Likewise, we believe that continuing to share ownership is one of the ways we maintain employee trust and an unparalleled commitment to succeed. Combined, these timeless principles form the basis of the Torch culture. A culture that we are committed to continue and strive to pass on to the next generation of employee-owners as an Evergreen Company.

Thank you for your interest in Torch Technologies.