Electrical Engineer

Principal Electrical Engineer

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $4.5B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

Vertex in Indianapolis, IN is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to provide technical leadership in power conditioning, drive electronics, and advanced networked control architectures across ground industrial and vehicle-class systems. This growth position will define and standardize approaches for power conversion, battery charging, nonlinear load handling, digital I/O/COTS SBC integration, and CAN-based control architectures (CAN 2.0/CAN FD) at the physical, logical, and application layers.

The Principal Electrical Engineer will lead electrical architecture for multi-board and multi-module systems, partition functions across CCAs and subsystems, and drive standards and best practices in power electronics, drive circuitry, digital I/O, and communication interfaces. The role includes architecting power systems, designing battery charger and energy storage systems, handling nonlinear loads and actuation drives, defining CAN-based communication schemes, and guiding integration of SBCs and digital I/O/relay circuits.

This engineer will serve as a principal technical authority, mentoring other engineers and influencing proposals and IRAD investments.

• Lead electrical architecture and design for power conditioning, drive electronics, and CAN-based control subsystems across multiple programs.
• Define system-level power architectures, including AC/DC and DC/DC conversion, distribution, protection, and energy storage strategies.
• Architect and design battery charger systems and energy storage interfaces, including charging algorithms, protection, and diagnostics.
• Define and validate solutions for nonlinear loads (motor drives, pulsed loads, Class D-style power stages) to maintain power quality and system stability.
• Specify and oversee the design of regulated and unregulated DC/DC buck controllers, isolated topologies, and H-bridge/dual H-bridge drive stages.
• Define CAN-based communication architectures, including physical-layer design, bus topologies, and application-layer messaging for control and diagnostics.
• Guide the integration of digital I/O, relay control, and COTS SBCs into power and control subsystems.
• Perform and review advanced simulations (SPICE/SIMetrix, MATLAB/Simulink, ANSYS SiWave, Keysight ADS or equivalent) for SI/PI, transient behavior, and power system performance; ensure correlation with test results.
• Lead and host design reviews, set analysis expectations, and approve critical component and topology decisions.
• Support and guide EMC/EMI and environmental qualification campaigns for power, drive, and communication subsystems.
• Mentor senior, mid-level, and junior engineers in power electronics, drive systems, CAN architectures, and advanced simulation methods.
• Contribute to and lead proposals, cost/schedule estimates, and IRAD planning in power, drives, and networked control.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field; advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum 12 years of professional electrical engineering experience, or 10+ years with a relevant Master's degree (MSEE, MSCE, or similar).
• Demonstrated experience in:
• Power conditioning and conversion for ground industrial or vehicle systems (or analogous high-reliability domains such as medical or space).
• Battery charger systems and energy storage architectures (charging algorithms, protection, state-of-charge/state-of-health considerations).
• Handling nonlinear loads (e.g., motor drives, switched-mode loads, pulsed loads, Class D-style power stages) with appropriate power system design and protection.
• CAN bus architectures (CAN 2.0, CAN FD) including…