Sr Prin Electrical Design Engineer

Job Summary

Mercury Systems Mixed Signal business unit is developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments. We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as well as still making individual technical contributions on the team.

The candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a world class electrical engineering team that involves in complete hardware development life cycle of new products to bring cutting-edge technology to mission-critical aerospace and defense applications. Your talent will be utilized to bridge commercial innovation with defense‑grade security to ensure our warfighters and allies have the technological advantage. This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.

• Creatively design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules and systems to meet customer and market requirements. This position is for a recognized proficient Hardware Electrical Design Engineer.
• Creatively design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules and systems to meet customer and market requirements. This position is for a recognized proficient Hardware Electrical Engineer.
• Assisting in review of system electrical requirements from product management and/or customers.
• Developing schematics and PCB designs for rugged electronics and computer systems.
• Creating and validating high‑speed PCIE cabling and expansion solutions.
• Driving design functional specifications and supporting documentation.
• Collaborating with other functional disciplines to create and share solutions.
• Supporting electrical compliance testing to military and aerospace electrical standards.
• Developing test plans and assisting in creating test procedures.
• Drive board bring and debug, test and verification of electrical designs.
• Interfacing with suppliers and customers to address technical issues.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to junior hardware engineers and peers.
• Product requirement testing and validation.
• Detailed design documentation.

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or closely related and typically 8 or more years of related experience.
• Experience designing complex embedded digital hardware products from concept to completion.
• Experience designing cutting‑edge high‑speed digital design of:
  • Technology from Intel (Altera), AMD (Xilinx), Microchip, TI and beyond.
  • 400/200/100G Ethernet, PCIe4/5, DDR4/5 SDRAM Memory.
  • Support circuitry to include DC/DC power, Clocking, JTAG, SPI, I2C, UARTs.
  • High speed fiber optics.
• Experience with ruggedized military and space environments.
• Experience developing detailed design specifications, test plans, and verification reports.
• Experience with schematics using Cadence DEHDL (Concept) or equivalent.
• Experience supporting CAD and Signal Integrity (SI) with PCB Rules with Cadence Allegro or equivalent.
• Experience with Lab Debug skills for both HW/SW that range from new development to continued sustaining.
• Experience leading projects, and mentoring other engineers.
• Ability to travel as needed between west and east coast facilities or to a customer site.
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance in the future. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

• An existing DoD Secret Clearance.
• Experience designing with Intel (Xilinx) and AMD (Altera) FPGA’s.
• Experience designing network switching (Mellanox, Broadcom, Marvel).
• Experience using Cadence Allegro for CAD/SI layout and simulation.
• Experience with schematic integrity checking analysis with Mentor Valydate or equivalent.
• Analysis including derating, reliability, and FMECA.
• Designing with…