Electrical Hardware Engineer

Overview

Electronic Warfare (EW) is a growing enterprise protecting the warfighter and national security against evolving threats. Our division offers an exciting opportunity for an Electrical Hardware Engineer to design, develop, and build radio‑frequency (RF) and digital electronic hardware from prototypes through production support in Arlington, VA.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Design of novel electronic systems for electronic warfare platforms
• Gathering, generating, and analyzing requirements, power budgets, thermal budgets, and link budgets
• Design and layout of electronic circuit boards
• Development of bills of materials, including parts selection, size/weight/power
• Design and assembly of prototype electronics chassis and systems
• Generating test requirements and test plans from customer requirements
• Conducting and coordinating tests using a variety of RF and electrical test equipment
• Working with internal and external manufacturing resources to take the prototype design to a production model
• Field support and debug of operating systems

The successful candidate will have the following basic education/experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science, or related discipline with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Must have an active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI
• Experience in:
  • System/subsystem design
  • Electrical and electronics principles and phenomena
  • Product development and test
  • Manufacturing processes and document control processes
  • Test plan and execution
  • Lab equipment, especially oscilloscopes, signal generators, arbitrary waveform generators, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers
  • Proper handling and ESD control of sensitive electronic devices

• Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Active security clearance higher than the Secret level
• Experience with:
  • RF system design
  • RF phenomenology
  • EW principles, systems, and techniques
  • Understanding of electrical code and OSHA safety requirements
  • PCB design and layout

Occasional travel, about 10-20% to CONUS locations for 1-5 days at a time.

Benefits include 4 or more weeks paid time off, 11 paid holidays, 401(k) with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, technical upskilling, education and training support, parental paid leave, and more.

$87,100.00 - $

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.