Senior Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer

About the Role

Mercury Systems is offering a Senior Principal Hardware Electrical Engineer a fulfilling career where you will be able to see the direct impact of your designs in deployed systems with true end‑to‑end ownership, operating in a smaller, highly technical team. You’ll shape ruggedized solutions that must perform in the real world under extreme conditions. Engineers here directly influence architecture, design decisions, and system‑level tradeoffs across the systems.

You will lead and mentor engineering teams developing mission‑critical embedded computing, high‑speed digital systems, advanced FPGA solutions, secure processing, and rugged electronics supporting operations across air, land, sea and space.

• Provide strategic technical leadership and execution for complex digital hardware programs from concept through production
• Architect advanced electrical circuit solutions involving secure processing, storage, networking, FPGAs, high‑speed interfaces, and extreme‑environment electronics
• Develop advanced high‑speed digital design including 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+, and modern interconnects
• Contribute to engineering best practices, design guidelines, and process improvements that scale across the organization
• Execute the development and verification of highly complex circuits, modules, and systems
• Advise senior leadership on technical risks, cost, schedule, and strategic direction

• BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• Typically requires 10+ years relevant electrical design including complex embedded digital hardware from concept through production
• Experience with high‑speed and high‑performance interfaces, memory technologies, and next‑generation interconnects
• Experience with signal integrity
• US Citizenship is required
• This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government

Experience with any of the following is valuable but not required:

• Intel or other advanced CPU architectures (Xeon‑D, Cascade Lake, Granite Rapids)
• Advanced FPGA technologies (AMD/Xilinx Versal, Intel/Altera Agilex)
• High‑speed interfaces (400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+)
• Experience designing advanced network architectures (Nvidia, Broadcom, Marvell)

• VPX/VITA standards (3U/6U), COM Express
• MIL‑STD development in rugged environments
• Space electronics or radiation tolerant components

• Cadence Schematic Capture tools or equivalent
• Cadence Allegro or equivalent CAD/SI tools
• Mentor Validate or schematic integrity tools
• Reliability/stress analysis (FMECA, derating)
• Requirements and workflow tools (DOORS, JAMA, JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience supporting proposals, cost/schedule estimates, and BOE development

• Hybrid out of our Andover, MA or our Hudson, NH locations

Mercury Systems is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran or marital status.

Please contact (978) 256‑1300 for reasonable accommodations required during the application process.