Senior Electronics Design Engineer for Defense Systems

USA Tech Recruit; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 schedule

Relocation assistance

Benefits package

Job summary

USA Tech Recruit in California is seeking a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to lead end-to-end electronic design for precision electro-optical systems in aerospace/defense. You will own from concept through production with hands-on hardware, software, and FPGA collaboration.

The role requires 6+ years with hardware design, experience with Altium/Cadence, embedded C, and ability to obtain US clearance. Onsite schedule 9/80 with relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in EE/Electronics with 6+ years, or graduate degree with 4+ years.
• Strong experience in analog, digital and mixed-signal electronics.
• Hands-on with design tools: Altium, Cadence, OrCAD, PADS, SPICE or Mentor Graphics.
• Experience with microcontroller-based board design, embedded C programming and debugging.
• Experience taking electronics through design, build, integration, test and production.
• Experience with multidisciplinary teams across electrical, optical, mechanical, software, firmware and FPGA.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.
• Experience with electro-optical, imaging, sensing, aerospace or defence systems.
• Experience with stepper motor control circuit design.
• Experience integrating FPGA-based designs with hardware.
• Strong understanding of digital electronics architecture and component availability.
• Experience with version control tools and best practices.
• Existing TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Experience supporting customer-facing technical reviews and proposals.

Responsibilities

• Lead electrical design activities from system requirements through implementation, integration and production release.
• Develop and review schematics, block diagrams, electrical wiring diagrams and circuit designs.
• Lead bench-level integration of hardware with software, firmware and FPGA systems.
• Plan and execute hardware testing, validation activities and design reviews.
• Develop technical trade studies and contribute to project planning, cost and schedule decisions.
• Present circuit designs, analysis, performance budgets and test results to engineering teams and customers.

Skills

Analog/digital/mixed-signal

Embedded C

FPGA/integration

PCB design tools

MCU-based design

System integration

Version control

US Security Clearance

Defense electronics

Electro-optical sensing

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Electronics Eng

Graduate degree (MS/PhD) optional

Tools

Altium

Cadence

OrCAD

PADS

SPICE

Job description

USA Tech Recruit in California is seeking a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to lead end-to-end electronic design for precision electro-optical systems in aerospace/defense. You will own from concept through production with hands-on hardware, software, and FPGA collaboration.

The role requires 6+ years with hardware design, experience with Altium/Cadence, embedded C, and ability to obtain US clearance. Onsite schedule 9/80 with relocation assistance.