Lead Principal Engineer - Flexible Hours in Defense Tech

AthenPollo; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AthenPollo seeks a Lead Principal Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to guide system and hardware architectures for DoD-related projects. You will mentor teams, lead design reviews, and drive complex electronic designs across analog/digital/power-electronics interfaces.

Experience in high‑reliability defense systems, software-hardware integration, and IC/PCB development is essential. Extensive troubleshooting, testing, and collaboration with multi-discipline teams are expected.

Qualifications

• Expert level experience in electrical/electronic architecture.
• Expert level experience with FPGAs.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and evaluate system and hardware architectures for complex electronic systems.
• Provide technical leadership for circuit design, modeling, simulation, integration, and verification.
• Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, cybersecurity, producibility, and lifecycle objectives.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews, assessments, and investigations.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies; perform root-cause analyses.

Skills

Electrical/Electronic architecture

FPGAs

Tools

Siemens EDA/Mentor Graphics

OrCAD

PSpice

LTspice

Mathcad

Job description

AthenPollo seeks a Lead Principal Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA to guide system and hardware architectures for DoD-related projects. You will mentor teams, lead design reviews, and drive complex electronic designs across analog/digital/power-electronics interfaces.

Experience in high‑reliability defense systems, software-hardware integration, and IC/PCB development is essential. Extensive troubleshooting, testing, and collaboration with multi-discipline teams are expected.