Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

Mercury Systems; Andover (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury Systems in Andover, MA is seeking a Senior Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer to own complex embedded digital and RF-like systems from concept to production. You will lead with strategic direction, mentoring engineers and shaping ruggedized solutions for extreme environments across air, land, sea, and space.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of experience in electrical board design, rad-tolerant hardware, and experience with high-speed interfaces and FPGA-based architectures.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Typically 10+ years of electrical board design experience.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces and signal integrity.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Rad-hard/rad-tolerant hardware experience is a plus.

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.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Signal integrity

High-speed interfaces

System architecture

Technical leadership

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cadence tools

Allegro

Mentor

DOORS/JAMA/JIRA/Confluence

Job description

Job Summary:

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 handson, take ownership of endtoend technical work, and shape the next generation of defense and aerospace products. You'll lead innovation and deliver highreliability, missioncritical 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

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+)
• Experience designing advanced network architectures (Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell)

DoD/Aero, Rugged, & Secure Systems

• VPX/VITA standards (3U/6U), COM Express
• 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

** We are also hiring at the Principal Electrical Engineer level. See job id #26-377. **

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.

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