Principal Engineer Hardware - RF & Lab Operations

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaboratively define and document the analog hardware design support infrastructure design.
• Develop engineering drawings and associated bill of materials.
• Manage and control the HW engineering baseline (Change requests, redlines, document as built).
• Determine HW component system specifications.
• Determine Infrastructure requirements (Power, Heating and Cooling).
• Develop integration plans and schedules.
• Integrate and check out HW components.
• Support design, develop, and implement RF testing methods and equipment.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve program support deficiencies.
• Support the integration, troubleshooting, asset tracking efforts in laboratory environments.
• Stand up lab operations and test facilities and work closely with site stakeholders (Safety, Security, Product Teams).
• Apply electrical, electronic and mechanical principles to cable & harness components and systems, including assembly, analysis, and documentation of results; construction of developmental assemblies, sub-assemblies and components; and quality testing.
• Support and participate in the design, test, modification, fabrication and assembly of prototype electromechanical systems.
• Develop and recommend corrective actions.

  Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience; 3 years with a Master's; 1 years with a PhD. An additional 4 years of experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
  • Must have an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance at time of application, current and within scope.
  • Experience with requirements decomposition and derivation down to hardware subsystem level and hardware component level specifications.
  • Familiar with engineering drawings and baseline management processes.
  • Experienced with procurement process.
  • Experience with cable management and various cable types typical for IT environments (Ethernet, Power, Fiber).
  • Experience with RF devices, connectors, cabling, test equipment.
  • Experience with compute components (memory, SSD, power supplies, cabling, motherboards).
  • Experience with electromechanical or electronics cable design for RF/Radar applications.
  • Experience with RF test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, power meter, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, and network analyzer.
  • Experience with Atlassian tool sets (JIRA, Confluence).

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Teamcenter or similar Product Lifecycle Management System experience.
  • Familiar with Model Based Systems Engineering principles.
  • Experience with within Model Based Systems Engineering tools such as CAMEO.
  • Familiar with integrating a broad set of commercial hardware system components (i.e., servers, switches, routers, network-attached (storage)).
  • Current or previous certification to IPC standards (610x, 620x J-STD).

  Primary Level Salary Range

  $94,200.00 - $141,200.00