Senior Electrical Engineer

deciBel Research has an immediate opening for a Senior Electrical Engineer in Huntsville, AL.

Position Description:

The successful candidate is a subject-matter expert (SME) who will perform cradle-to-grave launch vehicle-centric hardware engineering. This entails being a part of the hardware development for multiple technical baselines and the associated operations planning, design engineering, ground support development, analysis, testing, integration, and launch/retrofit operations planning.

Responsibilities Include:

• Based on specific objectives, perform analysis, electrical design engineering, and/or test of complex designs.
• Perform comprehensive review of internal, external and range requirements to support launch vehicle system level design and vehicle subsystem design
• Perform detailed analyses to support/verify designs and conduct briefings to management and customers
• Lead development, coordination, and execution of test programs required to evaluate the design
• Oversee component supplier design, analysis, manufacture, and test
• Lead troubleshooting efforts and comprehensive failure investigations
• Mentor other engineers from a technical standpoint as well as perform senior peer review
• Collaborate early and often with other engineering disciplines and operations/manufacturing groups
• Defines technical solutions, prepares and presents Electrical Engineering materials for Requirements and Design Reviews; briefs senior leaders
• Studies basic design concepts and criteria for more complex problems
• Applies Electrical Engineering principles to adapt or improve upon heritage features from previous successful designs of a similar nature
• Perform qualification testing, characterization testing, troubleshooting, and test data review of completed designs
• Perform data analysis to identify trends that may indicate out of tolerance or degraded part performance
• Perform testing to characterize off-nominal behavior of components
• Provides inputs into bill of materials (BOMs) and evaluates commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts for compliance
• Actively and effectively participates and contributes in a positive manner while supporting team decisions and goals
• Seeks new sources of information and provides information necessary to meet customer needs
• Disciplined with escalation when required
• Derives requirements through multiple sources of documentation and design meetings
• Evaluate uncertainty and risks associated with requirements and designs
• Participate in impact assessments for both internal projects and procured equipment
• Act with safety as your number one priority through every aspect of the role
• Provides formal peer review of engineering designs or analyses for team members

Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree or higher in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math)

Experience Requirements:

• 14+ years with Bachelor's degree; 12+ years with Master's degree
• Prior experience with the design, test, and/or integration and deployment of electrical components, electrical ground support equipment (EGSE), or subsystems
• Expert level understanding and application of company Electrical Engineering technical standards
• Proven results leading electrical component design solutions from cradle-to-grave
• Broad technical expertise and extensive working knowledge of other related disciplines
• SME level experience completing impact assessments, proven experience developing and delivering senior level briefings include milestone review packages
• Problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource and other project challenges
• Experience mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and electrical system architectures used to meet customer requirements
• Experience with classified test systems or systems subject to cyber security policies and risk management framework (RMF)
• Must be able to meet GWS Firewall requirements
• Ability to travel at least 10%
• Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment full time

Special Skills Desired:

• Release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures
• Burndown of nonconformances and/or root cause failure analysis of electronic systems
• Experience using analytical software tools, such as MATLAB or Python, to analyze and reduce data to identify key characteristics and trends
• LabVIEW programming and National Instruments (NI) hardware and software products
• LabVIEW FPGA development experience • DOORS and/or CAMEO exposure
• Experience with telemetry systems
• Experience with mission critical and safety critical systems, components, connectors, cables, etc.
• Familiarity with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Core Standards: MDA-QS-001-MAP, MDA-QS-003-PMAP, MDA Instruction 5000.20-INS (ETR Process)
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-1901A, MIL-STD-882, EWR-127, RCC 319, RCC 324, DoDEA 8510.01, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab, ECSS-ST-50-11C
• Familiarity with the GMD domain and GMD Launch Support Systems hardware

Applicant selected must have an active Secret security clearance. Must be a U.S. Citizen.