Electrical Engineer

About the role

SimVentions is 100% employee-owned and proudly ranks among Virginia’s Best Places to Work year after year. We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Electrical Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is focused on the design and development of rugged, high-performance electronics used in mission-critical defense applications with a strong emphasis on PCB layout and design. Experience or interest in RF circuit and antenna design is a significant plus. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of electronics design, with the ability to contribute across the full product development lifecycle—from concept and prototyping through production and sustainment.

Requirements

• General Skills and Abilities:
  • Oral Communications: Demonstrates ability to clearly and effectively articulate, present, and promote varied ideas and issues (to include sensitive or controversial topics) before a wide range of audiences. Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively; clarifies information as needed.
  • Written Communications: Conveys written information in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience, using correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Expresses thoughts persuasively and uses effective modes to reinforce message retention.
  • Ability to meet deadlines under pressure: Setting priorities for your own work in order to meet a deadline, coordinating work with other units in order to meet a deadline and setting work priorities and determining work assignments for other workers in order to meet a deadline date.
  • Ability to work as a member of a team: Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to accomplish project objectives.
  • Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision: Ability to work independently, make decisions, plan operations, show job responsibility, and exercise initiative.
  • Displays technical ability by identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Demonstrates ability to independently handle and lead a range of directed tasks and problems, such as establishing project objectives, evaluating alternatives, selecting approach for meeting requirements and resolving technical problems, with minimal guidance from program management and/or program technical leads.
  • Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Through effective negotiation skills, consistently gains support of others, within and outside the organization for the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Technical Skills and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of the design, development, fabrication, and quality assurance of electrical and electronic systems that will be used in austere operational environments.
  • Ability to learn and apply innovative technologies and techniques, within the electrical/electronic engineering discipline, toward the products, processes, and capabilities.
  • Displays technical ability and confidence by identifying problems and evaluating appropriate solutions. Demonstrates mature understanding of electrical engineering topics such as; analog/digital circuit design, embedded microcontroller design, and compact antenna design and integration.
  • Able to perform, document, and defend modeling and analysis.
  • Demonstrates mature knowledge and experience with test methodologies, diagnostic equipment, and software used to inspect, test, analyze, and resolve electrical systems and designs.

Responsibilities

• Conducts research, development, test, and integration of custom embedded systems and special communications capabilities.
• Contributes to the development of rapid engineering solutions to emergent non-conventional threats, specializing in turning high-level requirements into engineering designs that integrate microelectronics with novel fabrication techniques.
• Completes the design and development of electrical circuits, RF receivers, and electrically-small antenna designs with minimal oversight and guidance.
• Performs analog/digital circuit design, embedded microcontroller design, and compact antenna design and integration.
• Performs modeling of circuits, schematic capture, PCB layout, and circuit assembly / fabrication techniques.
• Develops coding to enable electronic designs.
• Presents technical status and decisions during design reviews.
• Supports integration and testing of developed products to ensure reliable functionality.
• Participates and leads developmental and verification testing, including extensive electromagnetic and environmental testing to enable rapid response to emergent Navy and national requirements.
• Works with Project Lead(s) to analyze and refine requirements, perform alternative solutions by research and investigation, and identify technical risks.
• Develops prototypes (in concert with technicians, as necessary) to prove out prototype designs.
• Coordinates with mechanical engineers regarding the integration of designs into customized mechanical packages.
• Develops documentation of design solutions and adheres to established configuration management processes.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field (Master’s preferred).

Compensation

The projected annual compensation range for this position is $85K - $105K (USD). This estimate reflects the standard salary range for this position and is just one component of the total compensation package that SimVentions offers.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and welfare plans to serve a variety of needs.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Competitive 401(k) programs
• Retail retirement and financial counselors
• Health savings and health reimbursement accounts
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance, short- & long-term disability
• Paid time off, paid holidays, paid leave (e.g., maternity, paternity, jury duty, bereavement, military)
• Third Party Employee Assistance Program that offers emotional and lifestyle well-being services, to include free counseling
• Supplemental benefit program