Hardware Engineer III

Mercury Systems is offering an experienced Hardware Engineer with a strong focus onrugged server integration. In this role, you will integrate and validate server components including risers, power supplies, cables, add-in cards, and highspeed interfaces, ensuring full system level electrical integrity. You will also design targeted supporting PCBs(such as riser cards, power distribution boards, or fan controllers) needed to optimize system performance and configurability.

This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys hands-on system bring up, debugging, and cross functional collaboration.

• Lead electrical integration of rugged server systems, incorporating commercial and custom boards.
• Own system level power architecture, including review, qualification, and integration of commercial power supplies.
• Integrate risers, cabling, add-in cards, and highspeed interfaces (PCIeGen5, USB 3.x, SATA, Ethernet).
• Perform targeted PCB design including riser cards, power distribution boards, and fan/control modules.
• Address signal integrity issues and recommend cables, layouts, orred river-based solutions when needed.
• Support thermal management by developing or integrating fan control solutions.
• Collaborate with mechanical, test, software, and systems teams to ensure full system compliance.
• Lead debug and root cause analysis across power, thermal, and highspeed digital domains.
• Develop system electrical specifications, integration plans, and test procedures.

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Typically requires 4+ years of hardware development experience from concept through production.
• Hands-on experience with
  power supplies
  and high current system design.
• Experience with schematic design using Cadence DEHDL/Concept or similar tools.
• Understanding of signal integrity principles and best practices.
• Strong cross-disciplinary communication skills and ability to lead technical efforts.
• This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations.
  
  You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawfulpermanent resident.

• Experience adapting commercial power supplies to military or ruggedized applications.
• Strong experience withPC/server architectures and system level hardware integration.
• Experience with digital interfaces (I2C, SPI, clocking and DC/DC power)
• Familiarity with MIL-STD
  704F, 1275, 1399, or MIL-STD
  461G.
• Experience with riser card, signal conditioning, orred river designs.
• Knowledge of thermal management and fan control system design.
• Experience with Intel CPU architecture and BIOS level integration.
• Handson experience with microcontrollers for sequencing or control tasks.
• Experience with Cadence Allegro for layout or SI simulation.
• The ability to obtain one. US Citizenship is required.

We have other Electrical Engineer positions open on our careers page.

• $75,000.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
• $84,000.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
• $88,500.00 - $ annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

• the role and related responsibilities;
• prior work experience;
• education, training, skills and certifications;
• internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;
• geographic location; and
• alignment with market data.

In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:

• bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);
• health, life and disability insurance;
• company-paid holidays and time off;
• 401(k) retirement plan;
• discounted employee stock purchase plan;
• tuition reimbursement; and
• access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including Linked In Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.

Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.

Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial…