Senior High-Speed Board Architect — Hybrid, DoD-Clearance

Mercury Systems; Cypress (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead board-level hardware design for mission-critical embedded computing and rugged aerospace applications. You will architect advanced circuits, high-speed digital boards, and secure processing solutions for environments across air, land, sea, and space.

You will drive engineering standards, support proposals with cost/schedule estimates, and collaborate across sites to deliver reliable, high-reliability electronics while ensuring

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (Master's preferred).
• Typically requires 6+ years of electrical engineering experience in board-level hardware design from concept through production.
• Experience designing complex embedded digital hardware with high-speed interfaces, memory technologies, and next-generation interconnects.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity.
• The ability to obtain a DoD Secret Clearance. U.S. Citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead board-level design and development of complex digital circuits and modules from concept through production.
• Architect advanced electrical circuit board solutions involving secure processing, storage, networking, FPGAs, high-speed interfaces, and extreme environment electronics.
• Develop high-speed digital board designs including 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+, and advanced interconnects.
• Establish engineering best practices, board design guidelines, and quality-focused processes that promote proactive verification.
• Support proposal development with technical architecting, cost/schedule estimates, and BOE.
• Drive board manufacturability (DFM/DFA/DFT) and collaborate with manufacturing on build issues.

Skills

Board-level hardware design

Signal integrity

High-speed digital design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's preferred

Tools

Cadence DEHDL/Concept

Cadence Allegro

DOORS

JAMA

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Mercury Systems is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to lead board-level hardware design for mission-critical embedded computing and rugged aerospace applications. You will architect advanced circuits, high-speed digital boards, and secure processing solutions for environments across air, land, sea, and space.

You will drive engineering standards, support proposals with cost/schedule estimates, and collaborate across sites to deliver reliable, high-reliability electronics while ensuring