Senior Electrical Systems Engineer

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Full Time Professional Baton Rouge, LA, US

Bascom Hunter is seeking a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer to lead the definition, integration, and verification of aerospace electrical systems for defense applications. Products include environmental control systems (ECS), motor drives, electronic control units, power distribution, and electrical interconnects. You will own electrical system architecture, requirements allocation, interface control, and verification strategy from concept through qualification and production. Working with hardware, FPGA, software, mechanical, test, and manufacturing engineers, you will translate customer needs into coordinated subsystem requirements and lead hands‑on integration to demonstrate system performance.

• Own assigned electrical system deliverables and technical decisions; identify cross-subsystem risks and drive resolution with the responsible engineering teams.
• Coordinate electrical, mechanical, hardware, FPGA, and software interfaces; resolve conflicting requirements and integration dependencies.
• Develop engineering task estimates, track technical progress, and communicate impacts to program cost and schedule.
• Conduct trade studies addressing performance, size, weight, power, cost, reliability, and component availability.
• Provide technical direction to suppliers and manufacturing partners, and mentor less experienced engineers through design reviews and troubleshooting.
• Lead electrical content for internal and customer preliminary design, critical design, and test readiness reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR).

• Define system boundaries, functional architectures, and the allocation of functions among control electronics, motor drives, power distribution, sensors, and actuators.
• Develop electrical block diagrams and interconnection schematics; review subsystem designs for compatibility with system requirements and interfaces.
• Collaborate with FPGA and software engineers to develop operating modes, startup and shutdown sequences, built-in test, fault reporting, and degraded operation strategies.
• Define and own electrical architectures for 28 VDC and 270 VDC aircraft power, including distribution, conversion, load interfaces, and protection coordination.
• Translate customer and system requirements into measurable subsystem requirements; maintain traceability, verification methods, and technical compliance status.
• Develop and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) defining power characteristics, signal levels, pin assignments, communications, timing, and fault behavior.
• Develop electrical load and power budgets, voltage-drop and margin analyses, and assessments of inrush, transients, power interruptions, and operating limits.
• Define electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS) architecture, including harness topology, wire sizing, connector selection, signal segregation, and shielding; review drawings with harness designers.
• Allocate electrical spacing, insulation, derating, and thermal requirements across subsystems, accounting for voltage, temperature, and altitude.
• Apply program-specific wiring and workmanship requirements, including AS50881 and IPC/WHMA-A-620 where applicable.
• Own the system grounding, bonding, shielding, and EMI/EMC strategy; coordinate filtering and protection requirements across electronics, harnesses, and enclosures.
• Develop integration and verification plans, compliance matrices, test configurations, representative loads, and pass/fail criteria; coordinate subsystem DVT with system…