Controls Hardware Specialist

Controls Hardware Specialist

Requirements

• Associate degree with 7+ years of experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Controls, Systems)
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Controls, Systems) with 5+ years’ experience
• Master’s degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Controls, Systems), with 3+ years’ experience
• JD/PhD
• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a high-level security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other systems teams and customers to fully capture and synthesize requirements for electrical components and hardware.
• Architect, design, develop electrical hardware products through testing, diagnosing, and inspection throughout the entirety of the product lifecycle.
• Lead a team of engineers with cross-functional skills to ensure all sub-system program objectives/deliverables are met including accountability for Schedule, Cost, Quality and Compliance.
• Ensure project risks (technical, cost, supply chain and timescale) are identified, managed (including integration of risk activities in the project plan) and escalated in accordance with the risk management plan.
• Compile functional descriptions, design assurance, and test results into reports sufficient for certifying authorities and other customer deliverables.
• Design for functional safety and security, preferably within the aerospace industry.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent systems thinking aptitude: the ability to understand complex system boundaries, interactions, and interdependencies across multiple abstraction and aggregation layers throughout the system’s entire lifecycle.
• Ability to analyze and translate high level requirements into a validated designs for electronic hardware systems and components.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (i.e., verbal, written, and presentation) for both expert and non-expert audiences.
• Experience with customer interactions and successful capture of externally funded programs that facilitate trade studies, research and technology development, and system architecture design as applicable to embedded control systems.
• Proficiency in the design and development of low voltage electronics ranging from analog circuit design/analysis, operational amplifier circuit, circuit tolerance analysis, Familiarity with programmable logic devices such as FPGAs, VHDL/Verilog development, debug, and functional verification.
• Skill and understanding of safety critical control systems (DAL A-C), high integrity control solutions, the interaction between security and safety, aerospace certification & qualification standards and their application for electronics is highly desirable, including but not limited to standards such as RTCA / DO (Aerospace) and applicable Mil-STDs with basic knowledge of US Export Control regulations applicable to these components.