Electrical Engineer, Senior

Title: Electrical Engineer, Senior

1. Details:
   1. FLSA: Full-Time, Regular Salary, Exempt
   2. Schedule: Monday – Friday, 0900hrs – 1730hrs EST
   3. Location: On-Site, Aberdeen, MD
   4. Supervisory: Yes
2. Position Description:
   1. The Senior Electrical Engineer will play a critical role in designing cutting-edge tactical power systems that empower the United States (U.S.) military, ensuring mission success through innovation, reliability, and compliance with military standards. This role offers the chance to work on advanced technologies, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and gain hands-on experience with military-grade systems and compliance standards. The Senior Engineer leads the concept phase, design activities, reviews and reports the design’s progress without much supervision. Assignments are broad in nature, requiring appreciable initiative, originality, ingenuity and excellent problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate will have excellent analysis skills, advanced electrical engineering experience and a great understanding of power electronics and battery designs.
3. Key Duties and Roles:

1. Take full accountability for electrical system design, from concept through production, ensuring quality, reliability, and adherence to military specifications
2. Must take ownership of the electrical design for the project with very little supervision. This includes doing the complete electrical design, creating schematics, conducting layouts, Design for Manufacturing (DFM) with the Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) supplier, and Bill of Materials (BOM) generation.
3. Perform worst-case circuit analysis on paper and do circuit simulations.
4. Perform de-ratings for the entire electrical design
5. Design and document robust hardware architecture and structure suitable for use in high reliability embedded applications
6. Lead electrical hardware component selection/optimization for microcontrollers and battery/charger management devices
7. Provide necessary sustaining support to existing products and work in a cross-functional team environment to assure electrical system-level integration and design for manufacturability.
8. Conduct comprehensive Electrical Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEAs) to ensure designs exceed customer and regulatory requirements
9. Construct prototypes; evaluate and document their performance; identify possible improvements
10. Explore new and existing circuit designs and methods to solve design challenges
11. Maintain an awareness of customer requirements and complaints to identify areas that may need development or improvement.
12. Prepare technical reports
13. Establish a culture of learning, openness, and accountability
14. Perform any additional related duties as assigned
    1. Basic Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s in electrical engineering with more than five (5) years of experience in electronics manufacturing in the consumer, telecom, automotive, and/or military industries
2. Must be able to perform electrical layouts as well as schematic capture.
3. Must have a solid understanding of digital and analog circuitry.  A strong understanding of Direct Current (DC) power electronics is required.
4. Familiarity with Military Standard (MIL-STD)-461, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)/Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing
5. Experience with electrical Computer-Aided Design (CAD) modeling systems (i.e. Altium, Orcad) required
6. Strong quantitative, design, analytical, and problem-solving skills
7. Strong verbal and written communication skills
8. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products
   1. Preferred Qualifications
      1. Master’s in electrical engineering with more than seven (7) years of experience in electronics manufacturing in the consumer, telecom, automotive, and/or military industries
      2. Department of Defense (DoD) experience
      3. Battery design experience
      4. Altium experience
   2. Travel:
      1. Up to ten (10)% CONUS travel is required
   3. Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a background check and/or security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information:
      1. No clearance required; Ability to obtain required
   4. Veritech is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class by applicable federal, state, local, or international law. Veritech is committed to providing an application process accessible to all, including individuals with a disability, by offering an alternative way to apply for job openings. This alternative method is available for those who cannot otherwise complete the online application due to a disability or need for accommodation. Veritech provides reasonable accommodation to applicants under the guidance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam-Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, and certain state and/or local laws. If you need assistance due to a disability, please contact the Veritech Human Resources via hr@veritech.com or call (443) 216-9050. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.