Hardware Systems Engineer, Mid

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security space missions? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution.

About the role

On our team, you will work with Booz Allen colleagues, other support contractors, and U.S. Space Force and Air Force personnel to develop and deploy the next generation of strategic military satellite communications capabilities. You will be an integral part of the program team to assist the government as an Avionics Hardware Engineer, ensuring the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and receiver card are integrated successfully to meet user’s needs. You will provide independent technical assessment of contractor hardware designs across the program lifecycle, develop, review, and refine government hardware requirements and verification approaches, and represent the government as a technical lead in vendor and Integrated Program Team (IPT) working groups. You will capture risks and surface them through the program's risk management process, brief findings and recommendations to senior government leadership, and provide direct support to the Lead Systems Engineer while managing the integration of requirements into the program baseline. This position is located in El Segundo, CA.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with hardware engineering
• Experience reviewing avionics hardware designs at PDR, CDR, and TRR milestones, including schematics, PCB layouts, and parts selection rationale
• Experience authoring or evaluating hardware requirements specifications, ICDs, and verification matrices traceable to system-level requirements
• Experience in requirements document development such as TRD
• Experience with risk processes and Risk Management
• Ability to coordinate across IPTs and component vendors to resolve technical issues without direct authority, interact well in cross-functional team meetings and professional environments, and work collaboratively and independently demonstrating initiative to complete complex tasks
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with avionics hardware engineering supporting DoD programs
• Experience supporting Air Force, Space Force, or other DoD programs
• Experience with VHDL/Verilog, embedded C, or board bring-up and debug
• Experience with Aviation GPS Receiver Cards
• Experience with ASICs, FPGAs
• Experience working with new technology programs for embedded systems
• Experience in obsolescence management, supply chain risk, or trusted microelectronics
• Knowledge of DO-254 design assurance or equivalent airworthiness and safety-of-flight processes
• Knowledge of a variety of electronics environments, such as salt fog, EMI/EMC, and shock and vibration qualification
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD). Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.

This position may require occasional travel up to 10% of the time.

Work models for this role include:

• Remote: Occasional in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility may be required.
• Hybrid: Frequent work from a Booz Allen facility, with potential visits to customer facilities as needed.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, collaborating directly with colleagues and customers.