Flight Safety Electronics Engineer – Missile Range Systems

Leidos; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Defense Electrical Systems Department seeks an Electronics Safety Systems Engineer to design, develop, and qualify high-reliability safety electronics for missile range and autonomous flight safety applications. You will define requirements and flow down to component level, ensuring compliance with RCC 319 and related safety standards.

This role involves collaboration with systems, software, and hardware engineers, as well as range operations teams, to deliver fail-safe electronics and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent from ABET-accredited institution; 4+ years of experience; Master’s degree adds 2+ years experience.
• Strong experience in safety-critical or high-reliability electronics design and/or testing and validation; ability to interpret/review electrical schematics and mechanical drawings; experience integrating firing safety electronics and initiators.
• Solid understanding of grounding, isolation, shielding, bonding, ESD, EMI protection techniques.
• Experience with range safety standards, RCC 319 and related requirements.
• Familiarity with analog circuit function, filtering, sensing, and A/D interfaces; familiarity with standard electrical test equipment.
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced team environment; U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of system level design/qualification for an autonomous flight safety system; provide design requirement guidance to component design engineers; conduct design reviews with stakeholders.
• Develop Flight Safety System design and validation requirements in compliance with RCC 319 and other safety standards.
• Review design and development of safety-critical electronics including firing sets, initiator safety circuits, power filtering, interlocks, and reliable stimulus sensing systems.
• Review Flight Safety System component designs and test procedures against requirements; consider high reliability analog circuits, filters, protection circuits, sensing circuits, A/D interfaces, and fail-safe architectures.
• Apply RCC 319 and related range safety standards throughout design, analysis, and verification; support environmental/qualification tests (thermal cycling, shock, vibration, etc.).
• Work in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary development environment with evolving priorities and tight schedules.

Skills

Safety-critical electronics design

Electrical schematics interpretation

RCC 319 familiarity

Grounding/EMI/ESD protection

Team collaboration

Security clearance suitability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering (ABET-accredited)

Master's degree in Electrical/Engineering (preferred)

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Function generators

Job description

Leidos Defense Electrical Systems Department seeks an Electronics Safety Systems Engineer to design, develop, and qualify high-reliability safety electronics for missile range and autonomous flight safety applications. You will define requirements and flow down to component level, ensuring compliance with RCC 319 and related safety standards.

This role involves collaboration with systems, software, and hardware engineers, as well as range operations teams, to deliver fail-safe electronics and