Senior Electrical Engineer

7 days ago


La Jolla, California, United States Leidos Full time
Job Summary

Leidos is seeking a highly skilled Electrical Engineer to support the design, development, and implementation of space-based sensors for our customers. As an Electrical Engineer, you will work closely with a team of engineers to design, develop, and implement capabilities for sensors used in space.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and develop high-speed printed circuit boards for system-on-chip (SoC) applications.
  • Work closely with the Lead HW Engineer, FPGA/Firmware Engineers, Signal Processing Engineers, and Software Engineers to convey sensor design architectural details, software message interactions process flows, software architectural design layout, hardware placement design, and firmware control interfaces.
  • Provide technical guidance and subcontractor oversight throughout the PDB development process, including supervising design, layout, procurement, assembly, fabrication, and test.
  • Resolve complex issues related to approaches, requirements, specifications, and design.
  • Interface with technical management and execution of engineering activities, including requirements analysis, implementation planning, integration and test, documentation, deployment, and system assessment.
  • Design and integrate high-speed circuit boards to support a diverse array of FPGA applications.
  • Perform trade studies for part and architecture decisions.
  • Develop hardware specifications.
  • Size FPGAs, and/or SoCs for signal processing algorithm implementation.
  • Develop FPGA firmware.
  • Work closely with a team of software, firmware, and systems engineers to ensure Leidos' PCBs meet product requirements.
  • Attend regular customer meetings and lead technical discussions/program reviews to support federal government customers.
  • Perform integration and test activities, including developing tools and techniques for testing and verification.
  • Create product documentation and technical reports, including system requirements specifications, interface control documents, hardware description documents, test reports, and design reviews.
Requirements
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or M.S. degree with 2+ years of prior relevant experience.
  • Experience with digital hardware design, PCB technology, and RF components, including ASICs, FPGAs, data converters.
  • Experience with PCB design and layout, along with associated tools and CAD packages.
  • Experience with FPGA design, Altera, and/or Xilinx VHDL.
  • Knowledgeable of high-speed communication bus design and layout techniques, such as USB, PCIe, XFI.
  • Experience working on a cross-functional team (PCB layout, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and quality engineering) to facilitate the design process.
  • Experience developing FPGA firmware and embedded test software.
  • Experience developing test plans, executing validation and test procedures, evaluating test results, performing analysis, and writing technical reports.
  • Knowledge of various hardware and debugging equipment, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers.
  • Experience with embedded signal processing algorithms, simulations, models, and/or software for deployment on complex SoCs.
  • Able to obtain a secret security clearance with the ability to ascertain a Top Secret Clearance.
  • 10% travel to customer/subcontractor sites as required.
Preferred Qualifications
  • A preferred candidate would also possess sound knowledge of space concepts, as well as a good understanding of algorithm implementation and hardware/software implementation.
  • Space-based influences (e.g., curvature of the earth, clutter, etc.) as it impacts sensor accuracies.
  • Space-based sensor accuracies (e.g., Stare, Bias errors, Line of Sight errors, 3D localization accuracies, etc).
  • Masters' degree or higher in Electrical/Computer Engineering.
  • Strong understanding fundamentals with modeling and simulation and/or algorithm development.
  • Programming experience in C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, Python, or MATLAB.
  • Background in FPGA/SoC security, including anti-tamper, secure boot.


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