Electrical Engineer

SGS_JOB_1851

Engineering
 Massachusetts
Active Secret Clearence Required
Circuit Testing
Electrical Devices Testing
Xilinx Virtex
Altium
IPC 6012 (Familiarity)
LTSpice
RF

Contract - 03 Years

Location - Lexington, MA. Designs, develops, and tests electrical devices and equipment, including communications systems, power generators, motors and navigation systems, and electrical systems for automobiles and aircraft. Oversees the manufacturing of these devices, systems, and equipment. Designs new ways to use electrical power to develop or improve products. Performs detailed calculations to develop manufacturing, construction, and installation standards and specifications. Directs manufacturing, installing, and testing of electrical equipment to ensure that products meet specifications and codes. Investigates complaints from customers or the public, evaluate problems, and recommend solutions. Works with project managers on production efforts to ensure that projects are completed satisfactorily, on time, and within budget. Designs electronic components, software, products, or systems for commercial, industrial, medical, military, or scientific applications. Analyzes customer needs and determine electrical system requirements, capacity, and cost to develop a system plan. Develops maintenance and testing procedures for electronic components and equipment. Evaluates systems and recommend design modifications or equipment repair. Inspects electronic equipment, instruments, and systems to make sure they meet safety standards and applicable regulations. Plans and develops applications and modifications for electronic properties used in parts and systems to improve technical performance. Background/Need: • The Group is seeking an electrical engineer to assist in the development and testing of digital electronics for advanced laser communications modems. The engineer will be involved in all aspects of testing, troubleshooting, and documenting complex, high-reliability digital electronics for space applications and will participate in conducting integrated systems tests of laser communications hardware. Work: • This position is 100% onsite due to the nature of the wo

Job Responsibilities:

  • Quantitatively test circuits for power and signal integrity and analyze simple RLC networks.
  • Test and debug complex digital circuit boards.
  • Test and debug complex digital circuit boards.
  • Develop test plans and procedures for testing advanced digital electronics.
  • Design hardware (e.g., dummy loads, cables) and oversee build process to support test of digital controller software and firmware.
  • Understand and manage digital and analog interfaces to digital controller electronics.
  • Conduct tests of advanced laser communications modems.

Skills:

  • Understanding of basic circuit design (theory behind resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc.)
  • Ability to read data sheets, especially with respect to analyzing issues, including GIDEP alerts.
  • Experience working with Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs and Xilinx programming tools.
  • Familiarity with IPC 6012 (all recent versions), especially Class 3 and Class 3/A and amendments regarding the required workmanship for construction of high- reliability circuit boards for aerospace applications.
  • Knowledge of integrated circuit (IC) package lead-forming specifications.
  • Proficiency with Altium (printed circuit- board design software). Required abilities include maintaining
  • schematic and symbol libraries, proofreading and editing schematics, importing designs into layout tools, editing layouts, and generating fabrication and assembly files (schematic PDFs, BOMs, Gerbers/ODB++, NC drill, etc.).
  • Proficient with at least Altium Designer Summer 09 and Altium Designer 15.
  • Experience with parts selection and fabrication support of high-reliability circuit boards for aerospace applications.
  • Knowledge of space-qualified connectors, especially micro-D and nano-D connectors, including familiarity with vendor offerings and awareness of allowed/disallowed materials. Knowledge of space-qualified high-speed RF cables.
  • Experience working in an optical communication lab, with an understanding of basic digital communication concepts like clock synchronization, bit error rate and an understanding of optical test equipment like oscilloscope, lasers, photodetectors, optical amplifiers, and power meters.
  • EMI compliance testing experience. Familiarity with MIL-STD-461, particularly MIL-STD-461C. Experience testing compliance for MIL-STD-461C / CS06. Experience supporting tests for other conducted-emissions and radiated- emissions tests.
  • Past experience and/or certification for working on Class 0 ESD-sensitive electronics.
  • Past experience writing and executing official test procedures, maintaining revisions on test procedures.
  • Past experience writing and maintaining the following official documents for external transfer: Circuit board fabrication drawings, circuit board assembly drawings, and bills of material (BOMs).
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
  • Familiarity with Windows desktop environment and Linux. Must be comfortable with command-line Bash shell.
  • Familiarity with polymer processes for high-reliability printed circuit boards in vacuum environments, including low- outgassing adhesives and conformal coating.
  • Familiarity with AutoCAD and Creo Elements/Direct.
  • Ability to generate and present Word and PowerPoint documents for internal meetings.

Education/Experience:

  • Electrical engineer the development and testing of digital electronics.

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