Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

Mercury Systems; Andover (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Health, life & disability insurance

Company-paid holidays & time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development & wellness

Job summary

Mercury Systems is seeking a Senior Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer to drive end-to-end hardware design for rugged, mission-critical systems. You will lead embedded digital hardware, high-speed interfaces, and advanced FPGA solutions across air, land, sea, and space environments.

You will mentor teams, influence architecture decisions, and own design verification from concept through production. DoD/Aero, space rad-hard/tolerant experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required.
• 10+ years of relevant electrical board design experience.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces, memory technologies and next generation interconnects.
• Experience with signal integrity.
• US Citizenship required.
• Space DoD/rugged/space electronics exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership for complex digital hardware programs from concept through production.
• Architect advanced electrical circuit solutions involving secure processing and high-speed interfaces.
• Develop high-speed digital design including 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, design guidelines, and process improvements.
• Execute development and verification of complex circuits, modules, and systems.
• Advise senior leadership on technical risks, cost, schedule, and strategic direction.

Skills

Strategic technical leadership

High-speed digital design

Signal integrity

Mentor engineering teams

Embedded digital hardware design

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence Schematic Capture

Cadence Allegro

Mentor Graphics

DOORS

JAMA

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Mercury Systems is offering a Senior Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer a fulfilling career where you will be able to see the direct impact of your designs in deployed systems with true end-to-end ownership, operating in a smaller, highly technical team. You’re not just implementing requirements; you’re shaping ruggedized solutions that must perform in the real world under extreme conditions. Engineers here directly influence architecture, design decisions and system-level tradeoffs across the systems. You will lead and mentor engineering teams developing mission-critical embedded computing, high-speed digital systems, advanced FPGA solutions, secure processing and rugged electronics supporting operations across air, land, sea, and space.

Step into a role where you can remain deeply hands‑on, take ownership of end‑to‑end technical work, and shape the next generation of defense and aerospace products. You’ll lead innovation and deliver high‑reliability, mission‑critical solutions from day one. The ideal candidate will have a background in space electronics including Rad-Tolerant and Rad-Hard.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide strategic technical leadership and execution for complex digital hardware programs from concept through production
• Architect advanced electrical circuit solutions involving secure processing, storage, networking, FPGAs, high-speed interfaces, and extreme environment electronics
• Develop advanced high-speed digital design including 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+, and modern interconnects
• Contribute to engineering best practices, design guidelines, and process improvements that scale across the organization
• Execute the development and verification of highly complex circuits, modules, and systems
• Advise senior leadership on technical risks, cost, schedule, and strategic direction

Required Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Typically requires 10+ years relevant electrical board design including complex embedded digital hardware from concept through production
• Experience with high-speed and high-performance interfaces, memory technologies, and next generation interconnects
• Experience with signal integrity
• US Citizenship is required.
• This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with any of the following is valuable but not required:

Digital & High-Speed Technologies

• Intel or other advanced CPU architectures (Xeon-D, Cascade Lake, Granite Rapids)
• Advanced FPGA technologies (AMD/Xilinx Versal, Intel/Altera Agilex)
• High-speed interfaces (400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+)

DoD/Aero, Rugged, & Secure Systems

• MIL-STD development in rugged environments
• Space electronics or radiation tolerant components
• Rad-hard and Rad-tolerant electronics experience

Tools & Analysis

• Cadence Schematic Capture tools or equivalent
• Cadence Allegro or equivalent CAD/SI tools
• Mentor Valydate or schematic integrity tools
• Reliability/stress analysis (FMECA, derating)
• Requirements and workflow tools (DOORS, JAMA, JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience supporting proposals, cost/schedule estimates, and BOE development

Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Salary Range for this position

• $115,700.00 - $208,300.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
• $129,600.00 - $233,300.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
• $136,500.00 - $245,800.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ,

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• the role and related responsibilities;
• education, training, skills and certifications;
• internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;
• geographic location; and
• alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);
• health, life and disability insurance;
• company-paid holidays and time off;
• discounted employee stock purchase plan;
• tuition reimbursement; and
• access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including LinkedIn Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

Our Culture

We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

To find out more about Why Mercury?, or visit the Mercury Community or find answers to general questions at Mercury FAQs