AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Electrical Engineer, Lead

AMERICAN SYSTEMS • $100K — $160K *
Dahlgren, VA 22448In-Person
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Active Secret Clearance required, with potential for Top Secret.
  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in electrical engineering or embedded systems.
  • Excellent oral communication skills for effective presentations.
  • Strong written communication ability for technical documentation.
  • Ability to work independently and manage projects with minimal supervision.
  • Proficiency in circuit design, microcontroller integration, and antenna design.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct research and development for custom embedded systems and communications capabilities.
  • Develop rapid engineering solutions to address non-conventional threats.
  • Design and prototype electrical circuits and RF receivers with minimal oversight.
  • Lead integration and testing of products to ensure reliable functionality.
  • Collaborate with project leads to refine technical requirements and explore alternative solutions.
  • Develop prototypes and coordinate with mechanical engineers on design integration.
  • Document design solutions and adhere to configuration management processes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid leave and ongoing education assistance.
  • Retirement plans with employer contribution options.
  • Insurance programs for employee welfare and dependents.
Full Job Description
Overview

Responsibilities

  • Conducts research, development, test, and integration of custom embedded systems and special communications capabilities.
  • Contributes to the development of rapid engineering solutions to emergent non-conventional threats, specializing in turning high-level requirements into engineering designs that integrate microelectronics with novel fabrication techniques.
  • Completes the design and development of electrical circuits, RF receivers, and electrically-small antenna designs with minimal oversight and guidance. Performs analog/digital circuit design, embedded microcontroller design, and compact antenna design and integration. Performs modeling of circuits, schematic capture, PCB layout, and circuit assembly / fabrication techniques. Develop coding to enable electronic designs. Presents technical status and decisions during design reviews.
  • Supports integration and testing of developed products to ensure reliable functionality. Participates and leads developmental and verification testing, including extensive electromagnetic and environmental testing to enable rapid response to emergent Navy and national requirements.
  • Work with Project Lead(s) to analyze and refine requirements, perform alternative solutions by research and investigation, and identify technical risks.
  • Develop prototypes (in concert with technicians, as necessary) to prove out prototype designs
  • Coordinate with mechanical engineers regarding the integration of designs into customized mechanical packages
  • Develop documentation of design solutions and adhere to established configuration management processes

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Qualifications

  • Active Secret Clearance
  • 5+ years of experience with the below information.
  • Oral Comms: Demonstrates ability to clearly and effectively articulate, present, and promote varied ideas and issues (to include sensitive or controversial topics) before a wide range of audiences. Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively; clarifies information as needed.
  • Written Comms: Conveys written information in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience, using correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Expresses thoughts persuasively and uses effective modes to reinforce message retention
  • Ability to meet deadlines under pressure: Setting priorities for your own work in order to meet a deadline, coordinating work with other units in order to meet a deadline and setting work priorities and determining work assignments for other workers in order to meet a deadline date.
  • Ability to work as a member of a team: Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams to accomplish project objectives.
  • Ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision: Ability to work independently, make decisions, plan operations, show job responsibility, and exercise initiative.
  • Displays technical ability by identifying complex problems and reviews related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Demonstrates ability to independently handle and lead a range of directed tasks and problems, such as establishing project objectives, evaluating alternatives, selecting approach for meeting requirements and resolving technical problems, with minimal guidance from program management and/or program technical leads.
  • Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Through effective negotiation skills, consistently gains support of others, within and outside the organization for the implementation of proposed solutions.
  • Knowledge of the design, development, fabrication, and quality assurance of electrical and electronic systems that will be used in austere operational environments.
  • Ability to learn and apply innovative technologies and techniques, within the electrical/electronic engineering discipline, toward to the products, processes, and capabilities.
  • Displays technical ability and confidence by identifying problems and evaluating appropriate solutions.
  • Demonstrates mature understanding of electrical engineering topics such as; analog/digital circuit design, embedded microcontroller design, and compact antenna design and integration.
  • Able to perform, document, and defend modeling and analysis.
  • Demonstrates mature knowledge and experience with test methodologies, diagnostic equipment, and software used to inspect, test, analyze, and resolve electrical systems and designs.
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering with demonstrated design experience
  • Current active Secret clearance required with the ability to obtain a Top Secret. Interim Top Secret required to start.
  • Position is 100% onsite.


Pay Transparency Statement

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is USD $100,000.00/Yr. - USD $160,000/Yr. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance programs, and education and training assistance.

About AMERICAN SYSTEMS

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is a government IT solutions provider. The Company provides solutions in national security, healthcare, and public sector markets. Its services include acquisition and lifecycle support, enterprise IT, healthcare IT, intelligence analysis, and training and simulation. The Company's customers include the Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, and Department of Homeland Security. AMERICAN SYSTEMS was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.
Learn more about AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Size
1,500 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
1975
* Ladders Estimates

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