Prin. Electrical​/Hardware Engineer

Job Summary

Mercury Systems IPS Data Processing business unit is developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments. We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as well as still making individual technical contributions on the team.

The candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a world class electrical engineering team that involves in complete hardware development life cycle of new products to bring cutting‑edge technology to mission‑critical aerospace and defense applications. Your talent will be utilized to bridge commercial innovation with defense‑grade security to ensure our warfighters and allies have the technological advantage.

This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.

• Lead engineering team to design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules or systems to meet requirements
• Lead engineering efforts to support production to resolve manufacturing issues or field failure investigation
• Create engineering design guidelines, work instructions and checklists for design consistency and process improvement to reduce future development cost
• Lead efforts to improve design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA) and design for test (DFT)
• Provide technical leadership for new and on-going projects
• Act as technical liaison with Manufacturing, Operations and Program Management
• Provide technical expertise and experience to assist Program Managers and Technical Project Managers to develop cost estimate and integrated master schedule to ensure they are clearly defined

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent (Master’s preferred)
• Ideally 6+ years electrical/hardware engineering experience
• Experience with airborne electronic hardware certification process.
• Experience using hardware engineering design tools, such as Cadence Concept, Cadence Capture, Allegro PCB Designer, SPICE, Hyper Lynx, Mentor Graphics Valydate
• Expert knowledge in the use of digital test equipment such as spectrum analyzer and high‑speed oscilloscopes.
• Experience with design documentation and interpreting customer requirements
• Experience multi‑tasking on multiple projects
• Experience leading projects

• An active DoD Secret Clearance
• Experience with high‑speed digital interfaces such as FPGA, PCIe, SATA, I2C, ARINC 429, Ethernet
• Experience with military test standards, such as MIL‑STD‑810, MIL‑STD‑461, and MIL‑STD‑704
• Experience with Video input and output processing
• Experience in Power Design
• Experience working on proposals and schedule/cost estimates
• Experience with Intel CPU design
• Working knowledge of VITA design standards (VITA 42, 46, 62, 65)

• This position is hybrid and can be located at one of the following Mercury Systems Locations:
  • Andover, MA
  • Hudson, NH
  • Huntsville, AL
  • Gulf Breeze, FL
  • Alpharetta, GA
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Cypress, CA
  • Torrance, CA
  • Enjoy every other Friday off with our 9/80 work schedule!

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, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government.

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 technologies profoundly more accessible for today’s most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in…