Senior Electrical Engineer

Everforth ECS; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA. The role focuses on high-performance RF systems for radar and Flight Termination System, requiring collaboration with RF, Mechanical, and Software engineers to derive solutions and verify performance.

The successful candidate will design hardware and firmware, perform verification testing, and mentor juniors while preparing documentation and test reports. A DoD clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of experience or Master's with 5+ years experience.
• Experience with schematic capture and layout of complex mixed-signal designs.
• HDI layout experience and understanding of high-density layouts.
• 5+ years hardware development experience using FPGAs, microprocessors and high-speed digital circuits in embedded designs.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-461F and related electrical/electronic system standards.
• Experience generating Basis of Estimates (BOE) for scope and pricing.
• Experience producing technical content from concept to completion (test procedures, reports, analyses, manuals, and design reviews).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Work on high-performance RF systems for Radar and Flight Termination System (FTS).
• Collaborate with RF, Mechanical, and Software engineers to derive solutions and verify designs.
• Perform verification testing, troubleshoot issues, and conduct hands-on hardware and firmware development.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical content creation and design reviews.
• Support estimating, planning, and customer-facing activities.

Skills

Schematic capture

HDI layout

RF systems

FPGAs

MIL-STD-461F

BOE/Scope & Pricing

technical writing

mentoring

security clearance

team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Altium

MATLAB

SPICE/PSPICE

Keysight

Vivado/Quartus

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA. Note: Contingent upon award.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will work on high performance RF systems used for Radar and Flight Termination System (FTS). Based on system requirements, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary engineering team of RF Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Software Engineers, to derive solutions, perform verification testing, and troubleshoot any issues. A successful candidate will solve complex problems and complete hardware and firmware designs and perform hands on testing.

Required Skills

• Bachelor'sdegreein Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience, oraMaster'sdegreein Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering,with 5+ years related experience.
• Experience with Schematic Capture and Layout of complex mixed signal designs.
• HDI Layout experience understanding the complexities and tradeoffs of complex high-density layouts.
• +5 years hardware development experience using FPGAs, microprocessors, high speed digital circuits in embedded designs.
• In depthknowledge of engineering standards, theories, concepts, and techniques relevant to electrical and electronic systemsbuilt to MIL-STD-461F and above.
• Experience generating Basis of Estimates (BOE) to generate Scope and Pricing for new work.
• Experiencedevelopingand publishingtechnical contentfrom concept tocompletion, including test procedures, test reports, engineering analyses, white papers, operations/user manuals, and design review materials,in collaboration withengineers, technicians, and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong teamplayer with theability to work independently andcollaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers to complete tasks.
• Ability to obtain andmaintaina US Government DoD Security Clearance.

Desired Skills

• Proficiencyin electronic circuit analysis and design applications,such as:
  • Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
  • MATLAB
  • SPICE/PSPICE
  • KeysightPathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave OfficeorAnsys HFSS
  • ModelSim, Vivado, Vitis or Quartus
• Experience inRadioFrequency(RF)circuitmodeling, analysis anddesignand/orDigital SignalProcessing(DSP).
• 5+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL and/or Verilog.
  • Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with designing/debugging high speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
• Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq UltraScape+ RFSoCs.
• PCB designexperience,includingmixed-signal circuitry.
• Experience with antennatheory,designandmeasurement techniques.
• FamiliaritywithDesignforManufacturability(DFM) andDesignforTest(DFT).
• Courseworkordirectexperiencewithradar systems,including:
  • Radar system designandanalysis
  • Radar signalprocessing andsimulation
• UnderstandingofbasicRF andmicrowaveengineering principles,including:
  • Transmission lines andmatchingnetworks
  • Filter design and analysis
  • Harmonic balance and non-linear effects
  • Cascaded noise figureand signal-to-noise analyses
  • Radio Frequency/ElectromagneticInterference (RFI/EMI)effects and mitigation techniques
  • Time- and frequency-domainrelationships and analysis techniques
• ActiveUS GovernmentDoD Secret Security Clearanceor higher.

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ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

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