Electrical Engineer

About the role

SAIC is seeking an Electrical Engineer for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.

Location: Hanahan, SC, US • Date Posted: 2026-08-31 • Category: Engineering and Sciences • Subcategory: Electrical Engr • Schedule: Full-Time • Shift: Day • Job Travel: Yes - 10% of the time • Minimum Clearance Required: None • Clearance Level: Must Be Able to Obtain Secret • Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Responsibilities

• Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors
• Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD)
• Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence
• Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems
• Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience; four (4) years additional in lieu of degree
• Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components (C++, microPython, circuitPython, standard Python)
• Development of DC power distribution architectures
• IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems
• Required Clearance: No clearance required to start, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance

Skills

• Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance
• Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments
• Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight
• Knowledge of standard RF principles
• Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols (desired)
• PCB design for DC power distribution.
• in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design (desired)