Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, fabricate, assemble, test, and deploy a wide range of electronic systems.
• Build and strengthen relationships with laboratory employees, government agencies, academic and industry partners.
• Lead design, development, fabrication, assembly, testing, and deployment of a wide range of electronic systems such as embedded systems, RF systems, and operational technology networks.
• Deliver results in a safe, responsible, secure, timely, and cost-effective manner.
• Apply advanced knowledge of standard theories, concepts, principles, techniques, and fundamentals in engineering to achieve innovative solutions.
• Scope, plan, organize, communicate, estimate, schedule, and perform technical tasks that provide creative technical solutions and address a variety of challenges.
• Provide direction and support to less senior professionals.
• Perform non-routine travel (approximately 10-15%) to complete professional development, and occasional short term remote field work and assignments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in electrical or computer engineering and 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced Degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred.
• Circuit Design and Simulation Experience preferred.
• Microcontroller Experience preferred, especially STM32/ARM Cortex.
• Programming experience in C, C++, or Assembly preferred.
• Advanced Degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred.
• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design experience preferred, especially Altium or KiCad.
• PCB Assembly and Soldering experience (through hole and surface mount) preferred.
• FPGA Programming Experience preferred, especially Vivado or Keil.
• Machine Learning Model Development experience preferred, especially Pytorch.
• Operational Technology (OT) Experience preferred, especially Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).
• OT Networking and communication protocols understanding preferred.
• Radiotelephony (RF) System Experience preferred.

About Us

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a multi-program laboratory applying state of the art science and practical, high-value, cost-effective solutions to complex technical problems to protect the nation. Located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken SC, the laboratory develops and deploys innovative technologies to address some of the nation’s environmental, energy, and national security challenges.

Team Information

The Global Security Directorate (GSD) of SRNL provides a team focused on staff development and infrastructure upgrades for nuclear reprocessing science and technology programs at SRNL. GSD is growing its support of its critical NNSA nonproliferation portfolios and is building its teams to support these enduring programs.