External Job Posting Title Electrical Engineer – Embedded Systems / Flight Control Hardware

Peraton; Aberdeen (MD); Presencial; USD 80.000 - 128.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Peraton is seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and develop embedded electronic systems for national security missions at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The role requires on-site work five days a week and a TS clearance with SCI eligibility.

You will work across circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems, coordinating with software, mechanical, and autonomy engineers to mature hardware capabilities.

Formación

• Active Top Secret clearance required with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 2 years of experience; 0 with Master's.
• Experience designing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design and PCB bring-up.
• Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, or SoCs and related circuitry.
• Experience with flight control hardware, avionics, or real-time embedded systems.
• Proficiency with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, or similar interfaces.
• Embedded firmware development in C/C++ or similar languages.
• Ability to troubleshoot hardware and firmware with test equipment.
• US Citizenship

Responsabilidades

• Design and develop embedded electronic systems for national security missions.
• Integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, and cameras into platforms.
• Provide hands-on engineering from schematic design to system testing on site.
• Collaborate with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers.

Conocimientos

Top Secret clearance with SCI

Embedded systems design

C/C++ programming

Hardware bring-up

On-site collaboration

US Citizenship

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Herramientas

Oscilloscope

Logic analyzer

Multimeter

PCB layout software

Descripción del empleo

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

What You'll Get to Do

Peraton Labs is searching for an Electrical Engineer to design and develop embedded electronic systems supporting unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms for critical national security missions. You'll work across circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems to rapidly prototype and mature integrated hardware capabilities.

More About the Role

As an Electrical Engineer, you'll provide hands-on engineering support from system architecture and component selection through schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing. You'll 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. This position requires 5 days a week on site at our Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland location.

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 2 years of experience; 0 years with a Master's degree.
• Experience designing and developing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design, component selection, PCB development, and hardware bring-up.
• Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, or SoCs and associated peripheral circuitry.
• Experience developing or integrating flight control hardware, avionics, robotics, or other real-time embedded systems.
• Working knowledge of embedded interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, or similar.
• 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.
• US Citizenship

Desired Qualifications

• Experience developing hardware for UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace platforms.
• Experience with flight controllers, IMUs, GNSS receivers, ESCs, servos, motor control, or related avionics.
• Experience integrating cameras, image sensors, video processing hardware, or electro-optical systems.
• Familiarity with camera interfaces such as MIPI CSI, USB, Ethernet, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• 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 power distribution, battery-powered systems, DC/DC conversion, and power integrity.
• Experience with PCB layout considerations for mixed-signal, high-speed digital, or compact embedded systems.
• Familiarity with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, or similar flight control and robotics ecosystems.
• Experience rapidly prototyping and integrating custom embedded hardware into operational or test platforms.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed athttps://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.