Senior Electrical Engineer – Defense Systems (Remote/Onsite)

Grimm Co; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Invariant Corporation in Huntsville is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to own the electrical architecture across defense programs from concept to fielded configuration. The role requires 6+ years in electrical engineering, including system integration, verification testing, and rugged cable/harness design, with collaboration across systems, mechanical, software, and quality teams.

Applicants should have a bachelor's in electrical engineering and be eligible for security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 6+ years in electrical engineering roles.
• Proficiency with NFPA 70/NEC, MIL specs, and detailed documentation of cables.

Responsibilities

• Develop and control the program’s top-level electrical design approach, including power architecture, interconnect strategy, grounding/bonding, signal integrity, interfaces.
• Lead electro‑mechanical integration, and subsystem electrical allocations.
• Oversee the design, development, and testing of PCBs and FPGA‑based systems ensuring project milestones are met on time and within budget
• Partner closely with systems, mechanical, software, test, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure the electrical design is aligned to packaging, thermal, timing, controls, ordnance interface, and mission performance constraints.
• Participate in failure analysis, root cause determination, and corrective actions.
• Design and review cable and harness assemblies for use in military systems, including shielding, grounding, and connector selection.
• Support and optimize engineering processes, procedures, and best practices to ensure consistent quality and reliability.
• Drive development of electrical requirements, interface definitions, schematics, cable/harness designs, ICDs, and design standards.
• Act as a key advisor on electronic design and system integration challenges.
• Familiarity with lab test environment and equipment such as DMMs, oscilloscopes, function/pulse generators, power supplies and spectrum analyzers.

Skills

Electrical engineering

System integration

Verification testing

Circuit design

Cable & harness design

FPGA design

Altium

AutoCAD

Documentation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

AutoCAD

MS Office

EDMS

Job description

Invariant Corporation in Huntsville is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to own the electrical architecture across defense programs from concept to fielded configuration. The role requires 6+ years in electrical engineering, including system integration, verification testing, and rugged cable/harness design, with collaboration across systems, mechanical, software, and quality teams.

Applicants should have a bachelor's in electrical engineering and be eligible for security clearance.