Senior Electrical Engineer, FPGA , Optical Controls, and Embedded Software

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with GA-EMS Engineering staff and chief engineers in the concept development and prototype design, integration, and test of power electronics for all product lines and technology areas.
• These encompass high-power motor drives, power conditioning systems, pulsed power systems, battery systems, high energy laser systems, space systems, advanced sensors, laser communications, target tracking, laser beam control/pointing, signal/image processing, and instrumentation.
• With limited direction, exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives for the review, research, design, development, and/or solutions to advanced technical engineering problems.
• Demonstrate prior experience in the improvement of legacy systems and development of new systems.
• Generate electrical architecture solutions for new project needs, perform electrical engineering analyses for systems and circuits, document findings, communicate results to engineering and program management staff, give technical presentations, and manage technical effort schedules.
• May function in an advisory or leadership role for a project/program and provide direction and guidance to less experienced professional staff or team of professional staff in technical efforts involving Ultra-High Power Lithium-Ion batteries, very compact power converters, adaptive electro-optics, laser control systems, or space-based electronics.
• Evaluate the integration of the engineering solutions within the overall engineering environment and ensure that appropriate documentation, testing, maintenance, and engineering updates are completed.
• Plan for future applications of solutions based on new developments in engineering technology.
• Communicate with colleagues and management throughout solution development and deployment cycles.
• Represent the company as a prime technical contact on contracts and/or projects and interact with senior external personnel on technical matters requiring coordination between the organizations.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; twelve or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, ten or more years of experience with a masters degree, or seven or more years with a PhD.
• May substitute equivalent engineering experience in lieu of education.
• Required Experience: Digital circuit design; embedded controls; analysis, design, and implementation of hardware systems to include digital, analog is required.
• Expertise in the design and implementation of algorithms in FPGAs.
• Experience architecting system on chip solutions specifying features to be implemented in embedded software and VHDL.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Xilinx Vivado Design Suite, PADS PCB Design Software, SPICE circuit simulation tools, HyperLynx Signal/Power Integrity tools, ANSYS Signal Integrity tools, C/C++, VHDL, Microsoft Project, MATLAB, LabVIEW.
• Experience designing and implementing real-time control algorithms on FPGAs for optical systems including FSMs, DMs, and linear stages.
• Experience performing simulation, validation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing of FPGA-based control systems.
• Integrate control systems with sensors, actuators, and optical components.
• Optimize signal processing pipelines for low-latency, high-precision performance.
• Demonstrate technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with other departments, customers, government representatives, and/or professionals.
• Capable of representing the organization as a prime technical contact.
• Customer-focused and able to formulate plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving advanced technical engineering problems.
• Must possess the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving project environment.
• Must be able to work on a self-initiated basis or in a team environment.
• Must be able to prepare and conduct detailed technical presentations and reviews.
• Some travel and extended work schedules may be required.