Electrical Engineer

• Electronic Circuit Design: Design high-speed digital Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs) from requirements and schematic capture through PCB layout, integration, and production.
• Technical Mentoring: Mentor Hardware Engineers on high-speed digital design principles, PCB layout techniques, and hardware development best practices.
• SI/PI Optimization: Ensure robust signal and power integrity (SI/PI) via advanced modeling, simulation, and hardware validation.
• Design Optimization: Champion Design to Cost (DTC), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT) principles to ensure producible, cost-effective, and testable designs.
• Hardware Verification & Test Support: Perform hardware integration and Design Verification Testing (DVT), while providing technical support for Product Qualification Testing, factory production, and formal Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate across Systems, Software, and Mechanical Engineering teams while serving as the primary technical interface to align internal stakeholders, leadership and customers on program objectives.

Principal Electrical Engineer – Hardware

• Work with Mission Systems department leaders to coordinate efforts across portfolios within Strategic Defense Solutions, ensuring a unified approach to meeting business needs.
• Participate in Requirements and Architecture Reviews, Independent Reviews and Non-Advocate Reviews to ensure designs and plans are aligned with requirements and manufacturing feasibility.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership to develop talent that meet the needs of our portfolios and meet our customers’ most challenging commitments.
• Conduct directorate leadership over the entire life cycle including bids, program management, requirements capture, design and implementation, integration, verification, and certification.
• Connect geographically distributed teams to engage talent across sites, work to identify best practices and execute as a seamless organization.
• Travel to SDS HW sites across the organization to engage with talent and connect with teams.
• Identify, develop, track and deploy KPI’s within discipline to foster predictable performance and highlight areas of focus.
• Foster a culture of technical rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement in support of mission-critical delivery.
• Communicate well with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, internal leadership, and customers.
• Strives to spend 25 - 50% of week engaged in programmatic technical tasks and providing leader oversight to program performance.
• Look out to industry for other developing technologies to adopt into our products – Identifying and incorporating AI into our engineering disciplines to achieve execution efficiency.
• Partner with Mission Engineering & Technology HW Discipline Lead to align initiatives within organization.

Associate Director – Electrical Engineering Discipline Lead

• Position primarily focused in Cedar Rapids Area.
• May require driving to additional customer jobsites in a company provided vehicle across the state.
• Available for emergency calls
• Review, interpret and understand electrical one-lines & schematics
• Fully understand customer needs and requirements.
• Provide design services for planned replacement of obsolete equipment
• Determine isolation plans required to service equipment during planned shutdowns.
• Identify assets that require maintenance testing on a rotating schedule
• Outage Management overseeing electrical installation and testing crews
• Ensure that received and installed electrical equipment meets project specifications.
• Develop commissioning procedures for placing new equipment into service.
• May perform simple power system studies including short circuit, arc-flash and protective device coordination.

• ASIC/FPGA/SoPC digital architecture development and design.
• Develop RTL design code and simulation in VHDL, Verilog, and/or SystemVerilog.
• Create UVM constrained random environments using SystemVerilog.
• Create placement and timing constraints.
• Perform synthesis, place and route.
• Perform static timing analysis, linting analysis, LEC, and clock-domain-crossing analysis.
• Requirements capture, decomposition, and traceability.
• Perform ASIC/FPGA/SoPC verification using inspection, analysis, simulation, and test methods.
• Lead the Pursuit, Proposal, Planning and execution of Design and Development Projects for Avionics Complex devices.
• Develop project and program strategies to advance the Complex Hardware discipline and products.
• Ensure alignment to program, product line, and corporate goals while meeting certification requirements up to and including DO-254 DAL A.
• Communicate with a wide variety of individuals including Engineering, Program Management, Internal Leadership, Supply Chain, Operations, Service Centers, and Customers.

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