Electronic Design Engineer, Senior/Principal

Job Title: Electronic Design Engineer, Senior / Principal Position Overview: The Electronic Design Engineer, Senior / Principal will utilize in depth knowledge to develop, design, maintain, or improve electrical and photonics components, products, or systems for Commercial, Aerospace Defense and other wireless applications. Will demonstrate conceptual and practical expertise in electronic design challenges and basic knowledge of related disciplines. Key Responsibilities: Requires specialized depth and/or knowledge or expertise in the design, drafting, test, and release of new electronics products, devices, circuits, and/or systems. Products include analog RF fiber optic links, high-speed digital fiber optic transceivers and fiber optic amplifiers. Products utilize microprocessors and firmware. Be responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from kick-off through engineering evaluation and write test and assembly plans and procedures. Acts as a resource to develop team atmosphere together with our transistor designers, our application, and device engineering teams. Initiate prototype builds and manage product characterization. Design evaluation boards and characterization fixtures, direct or perform measurements, and process and present evaluation data against the product development goals. Provide clear status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing test data. Expert in formal stage-gate new product introduction process. Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with other others. Awareness of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market. Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams, acts as resource for colleagues. Work with our Product Engineering group to transfer products to production. Key Competencies Skills required: In depth understanding of a variety of RF/Microwave/mmWave, optical networking circuit architectures. Knowledge of electronics board design (schematics) and writing software/firmware requirements for electronic boards with microprocessors is required. Knowledge of design of modules for VITA OpenVPX and SOSA applications is a major plus. Analyzes best practices to improve product, processes, or services. Strong ability to solve complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions. Fluent with relevant electronics simulation tools, software, and test equipment (spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, power meter, etc.). Fluent in Electro-magnetic and/or Electro-optic simulations, thermal simulation. Experienced with integration and experience designing for high yield and low cost. Strong knowledge of the operation and calibration of industry standard test equipment. Experience with the design of evaluation boards including both electrical and thermal aspects. Familiarity with AutoCAD or other drawing packages is desirable. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Required Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, or similar studies. Advanced degree is highly desirable. Minimum of 10 years of experience in relevant electronics / photonics design engineering. Senior / Principal title will be assigned based on the experience of the candidate. Due to ITAR regulations, only candidates who are U.S. Persons ((U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position. Must be able to obtain a security clearance. The Salary Range for this position is $98,000-$170,000.