Principal Electrical Engineer at Mercury Systems

Job Summary:

Mercury Systems IPS Data Processing business unit is developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments. We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as well as still making individual technical contributions on the team. The candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team.

This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering team to design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules or systems to meet requirements
• Lead engineering efforts to support production to resolve manufacturing issues or field failure investigation
• Create engineering design guidelines, work instructions and checklists for design consistency and process improvement to reduce future development cost
• Lead efforts to improve design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA) and design for test (DFT)
• Provide technical leadership for new and on-going projects
• Act as technical liaison with Manufacturing, Operations and Program Management
• Provide technical expertise and experience to assist Program Managers and Technical Project Managers to develop cost estimate and integrated master schedule to ensure they are clearly defined

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (Master’s preferred)
• Ideally 6+ years electrical/hardware engineering experience
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces such as PCIe, SATA, I2C, ARINC 429, Ethernet
• Experience with military test standards, such as MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-704
• Experience with airborne electronic hardware certification process.
• Experience using hardware engineering design tools, such as Cadence Concept, Cadence Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, SPICE, HyperLynx, Mentor Graphics Valydate
• Expert knowledge in the use of digital test equipment such as spectrum analyzer and high-speed oscilloscopes.
• Experience with design documentation and interpreting customer requirements
• Experience multi-tasking on multiple projects
• Experience leading projects 

Preferred Qualifications:

• An active DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience with Video input and output processing
• Experience in Power Design
• Experience working on proposals and schedule/cost estimates
• Experience with Intel CPU design
• Working knowledge of VITA design standards (VITA 42, 46, 62, 65)

Locations:

• This position is hybrid and can be located at one of the following Mercury Systems Locations:
• Cypress, CA
• Torrance, CA
• Enjoy every other Friday off with our 9/80 work schedule!

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."

Salary Transparency: Full-Time Equivalent Annual Salary Range:  $95,200 - $199,900 for a Principal Hardware Engineer in Torrance and Cypress, CA. The disclosed salary range is a general guideline for Mercury team members employed at the job level at the location listed above and does not include overtime for eligible hourly employees.