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Lead Electrical Engineer – Advanced Radar System
| Company | Leidos |
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| Location | Huntsville, AL, USA |
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| Salary | $104650 – $189175 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited institution with 8+ years of experience or 6+ years with MS degree
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading cross-functional, technical teams
- 5+ years of experience in hardware system design and test from architecture through implementation
- Basic understanding of radar systems or at minimum sensor system operations
- Experience leading and conducting Technical Design Reviews and presenting technical reports and materials to customer teams
- Strong understanding of Electrical power distribution, signal cables, coax cables, fiber connectivity, industrial sensors, and rack electronics
- Ability to interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, and system block diagrams
- Proven understanding of fundamental circuits and circuit components
- Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently
- Demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a multidisciplinary team environment and mentoring & guiding team members
- Possess a secret clearance, or have the ability to obtain a secret clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead team of engineers developing electronics for a first of its kind Radar system
- Serve as a technical liaison with customer representatives
- Brief technical aspects of system design, integration, or test plans and activities to customers and other external stakeholders at formal program reviews
- Act as a control account manager for Electrical engineering team, managing cost and schedule to the program plan
- Manage an execution plan for the team and provide weekly status reporting to the internal and external management teams
- Manage development, test, and demonstration of all electronics elements on emerging VHF radar panel capability
- Lead the team responsible for overall system power, distribution, cabling, and sensors
- Manage the electronics design for the overall transmit receive group
- Manage overall engineering resource support for two production teams
- Manage the development and deployment of an overarching automated electronics ATP suite to the production teams
- Support Electrical system integration
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters degree in Electrical Engineering
- Strong understanding of Electronics including PCBA development, high speed digital design, RF design, high power amplifiers, RF cascade development, MIL-STD-461 EMI qualification and analysis, and radar system phase noise
- Experience with leading small to mid-sized technical teams
- Electrical design for military hardware or aerospace systems
