Senior Specialist,Electrical Engineer Job Carlsbad area,California USA,Engineering

Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineer – Advanced Electro-Optics

Location: Carlsbad, California
Work Arrangement: Fully Onsite
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Aerospace & Defense / Electro-Optics
Schedule: 9/80 – Every Other Friday Off
Relocation Assistance: Available

Northwest Talent Solutions (NWTS) is conducting a confidential search for a Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineer to join an advanced engineering team developing precision electro-optical technologies for mission-critical applications.

If you're an electrical engineer who wants to own designs from concept through integration and test
, this is an opportunity to work on sophisticated hardware alongside optical, mechanical, software, firmware and FPGA engineers.

This is a hands-on engineering role—not simply design oversight.

What You'll Do:

You’ll take meaningful ownership across the development lifecycle, including:

Design analog, digital, power and mixed-signal electronics
Develop schematics, functional diagrams, block diagrams and electrical wiring diagrams
Design, build and test mixed-signal low-voltage current driver boards
Develop board-level solutions incorporating microcontrollers
Program and debug microcontrollers using embedded C
Design stepper motor control circuitry
Translate system-level requirements into detailed implementation architectures
Lead bench-level integration across hardware, software and FPGA designs
Develop circuit analyses, performance budgets and supporting test data
Create test plans and procedures to validate design performance
Present designs and technical findings during peer and customer reviews
Support trade studies evaluating technical, cost and schedule considerations
Contribute to proposals and early program requirements definition
Support product documentation and production release
Own development efforts from initial concept through integration and test

What We’re Looking For:

Strong candidates will bring experience across several of the following areas:

Analog, digital and mixed-signal circuit design
PCB/electronics design and simulation
Microcontroller-based board design
Embedded C programming and debugging
Stepper motor control circuit design
Hardware/software/FPGA integration
Circuit integration and test
Requirements decomposition and system architecture
Design verification and technical documentation
Experience carrying circuit designs through the complete development lifecycle

Experience with tools such as Altium, Xpedition, Cadence ConceptHDL, OrCAD, PADS Layout, SPICE and Mentor Graphics is highly relevant.

Candidates should have a bachelor's degree with approximately 6+ years of relevant experience, a graduate degree with 4+ years of relevant experience, or substantial equivalent professional experience.

Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance is required.

Experience That Will Set You Apart:

We’re especially interested in engineers who bring:

An active TS/SCI clearance with Poly
4+ years of digital electronics design experience
4+ years taking circuit designs through development, integration and test
Experience combining communications systems knowledge with analog, digital and FPGA design
Strong understanding of electronics technology, component availability and design architecture
Version-control experience, including Subversion
Experience presenting complex engineering designs to technical and customer audiences

Why This Opportunity?

You’ll work as part of an integrated engineering team developing advanced precision electro-optical technology where your designs have direct, real-world impact.

You’ll also have something many experienced engineers value:
technical ownership
. You’ll have the opportunity to follow your work from requirements and architecture through design, bench integration, testing and…