Electrical Engineer

Overview

Staff Electrical Engineer position located in Herndon, VA. Use your electrical engineering skills to design and build electro-optical systems to push boundaries for NASA and DoD. The successful candidate will join Fibertek’s R&D team to contribute to the development of laser products. You will work within a collaborative environment while empowered to make decisions in your area of expertise, handling a manageable workload with support from your team and senior leadership.

In developing, verifying, and upgrading the electronics in Fibertek's electro-optical systems, you will handle a wide range of engineering tasks, including circuit board development, firmware (FPGA & CPU) development, cable/harness design, and documentation. This will also include board and system-level integration and testing and troubleshooting. You will work on multiple concurrent projects, with a mix of small, short, quick-turn projects and more extensive, long-term projects.

• Develop, verify, and upgrade electronics for electro-optical systems.
• Design circuit boards and integrate firmware (FPGA & CPU) development.
• Design cables/harnesses and document designs.
• Perform board- and system-level integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with varying scopes and timelines.

• BSEE with 5-8 years of applicable work experience.
• Experience with circuit board design, integration, and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working hands-on and participating in field tests and experiments.
• Experience using electrical lab equipment as part of embedded system development.

• MSEE
• Experience developing hi-rel military and/or space-flight electronics
• Experience with FPGA/CPLD design, simulation, and troubleshooting
• Experience with embedded CPU/Microcontroller firmware development, integration, and troubleshooting
• Experience with LIDAR systems

FIBERTEK, Inc. is a recognized leader in advanced lasers, lidars and laser communication systems providing our DoD, NASA and aerospace customers discriminating capabilities. We pride ourselves in our innovation and customer success focused culture enabled by a creative and relaxed work environment. Fibertek fosters a progressive learning environment that values inspiration, promotes professional challenge and encourages personal growth. We offer a competitive and incentivized compensation package with excellent benefits.

Fibertek, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on individual merit, skills, and experience. Fibertek does not engage in nor permits any discrimination in the workplace.