Senior Electrical Engineer

About the Role

MERC is recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to support its Electronic Warfare and Avionics area.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, and perform detailed engineering efforts, including:
  • Analyzing existing technology applications, processes, and products, considering costs, life cycle, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term support.
  • Performing intensive technology research and evaluation of alternative solutions to improve existing implementations.
  • Defining and implementing advanced technological evaluations to provide risk reduction and determine production feasibility.
  • Designing, implementing, and achieving operational status of advanced technological approaches to satisfy customer needs.
• Organize, conduct, and achieve detailed cross-functional engineering communication, design, evaluation, and implementations to provide novel functionality and capability through:
  • Organizing technical teams of multi-disciplined persons to construct technological solutions.
  • Participating in multidiscipline design teams and process action team efforts.
  • Preparing and presenting design alternatives to a multidiscipline review peer group.
  • Implementing designs that apply multidiscipline solutions for breakthrough performance.
• Lead technical teams in interfacing with current and prospective customers through:
  • Diagnosing customer needs and opportunities through formal and informal interactions.
  • Leading teams in preparing and presenting detailed technical solutions, cost estimates, and implementation schedules.
  • Ensuring strong technical communication using customer-aligned terms and design illustrations.
• Gather, track, maintain, and provide detailed technical, cost, labor, material, and schedule information on programs to senior managers, including risk assessments at all implementation stages.

Requirements

• US Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant engineering field (e.g., EE, ME, AE, IE, SW, CE, Computer Science) from an ABET-accredited institution and 9 years of directly related experience; or a Master’s degree in same and 8 years of directly related experience; or a PhD in same and 3 years of directly related experience.
• 3 years of technical lead responsibility.