Electrical Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve issues within complex HWIL testbeds involving sensors, avionics, embedded computing, and closed-loop weapon-system interfaces.
• Identify root causes related to component failures, degraded signals, hardware performance, or timing anomalies.
• Conduct detailed fault isolation across interconnected hardware, simulation nodes, and networked weapon-system components.
• Perform electrical verification tasks including identification of loose or intermittent connections, troubleshooting faulty or damaged wiring/cabling, evaluating line integrity, grounding, shielding, and signal quality.
• Support integration of new missile subsystems, instrumentation, and test rack hardware.
• Analyze and verify complex system networks to ensure correct signal transmission, data routing, and message integrity across real-time simulation components.
• Develop an operational understanding of weapon-system networking architectures, including component interfaces, comms pathways, and timing requirements.
• Support protocols commonly used in real-time missile and DoD systems (e.g., Ethernet, deterministic real-time protocols, serial interfaces, MIL-STD data links, etc.).
• Diagnose causes of simulation overruns, delayed model execution, and desynchronization between hardware devices, sensors, and real-time compute nodes.
• Monitor and analyze real-time model execution timelines.
• Resolve timing issues affecting weapon-system-level closed-loop simulations.
• Document troubleshooting steps, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Collaborate closely with system engineers, software developers, real-time modelers, and test operators.
• Support test readiness reviews, lab configuration updates, and integration events for the hypersonic program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related hardware electrical engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience working with HWIL environments, tactical hardware, or real-time test systems.
• Demonstrated experience diagnosing electrical and hardware failures in complex integrated systems.
• Strong understanding of system networks, message flows, signal routing, and communication protocols.
• Experience with real-time simulation/test frameworks (e.g., iHawk, Speedgoat, RT Linux, or similar).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance. Interim secret required to start.
• SAIC will sponsor the clearance process.
• Ability to work 100% on-site at NSWC Crane.
• Network+ or equivalent certification (Security+, CCNA, etc.) preferred.
• Experience reviewing or modifying wiring diagrams, harness documentation, and system schematics.
• Knowledge of avionics interfaces, deterministic timing systems, or secure DoD network architectures.
• Familiarity with HPC computing, MIL-STD communication protocols, V&V and Systems Engineering processes.