Job Details
Electrical Engineer ( R-00085528 )
Description
Job Description:The Maritime Systems Division at Leidos has an opening for a Computer / Electrical Engineer in our Sterling Va. location. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who enjoys designing, building, and testing hardware systems in a collaborative environment. The successful candidate will be joining a dedicated team that is committed to supporting our warfighters. If you are searching for challenging electrical engineering work, contact us at Leidos today!
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop COTS based electrical designs for ruggedized computer based IT products used on Navy ships.
- Develop electrical product architectures that leverage COTS products
- Conduct margin analysis of electrical systems
- Develop tests plans, conduct tests, and document results
- Manage small to medium sized engineering projects
- Provide production work instructions in the form of schematics, drawings, build books and test instructions.
- Work closely with venders to track product updates, change information or end of life / last time buy.
- Design products that are not available from COTS, or when COTS provide marginal performance. Where in-house design is impractical, provide design requirements to offload the design to other engineers.
- Write firmware and apply it to microcontrollers
- Select Embedded Computer based on requirements
- Select Computer Memory and Storage based on requirements
- Load and test computer BIOS
- Determine Video and display technology based on requirements
- Load and test Windows OS and applications
- Load and test Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS and applications
- Write scripts or programs for Windows and / or Linux to automate applications or automate testing
- Connect copper and or fiber cable as required to simulate customer requirements using switches and or media converters.
- Log into and program network switch for test environments
- Write and run networking test scripts
- Provide instruction to or take instruction from engineering team members as required
Basic Qualifications
- Must be a US citizen and ability to obtain Security Clearance
- Requires BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
- Proficiency with Electrical Schematic Capture and Layout CAD design tools
- Familiarity with electronics including relays, transistors, resistors, capacitors and microcontrollers
- Experience specifying and integrating COTS electronics into industrial or military environments
- Ability to develop test plans and procedures of electrical systems
- Experience writing instruction set for programmable controllers
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.x, 7.x and 8.x
- Experience with Microsoft Windows Professional versions 7, and 10
- Experience designing and building cables to meet power, data and environmental requirements
- Experience with Military Environmental Qualification Standards
Preferred Qualifications
- Computer and system design experience for Navy Shipboard applications
- Experience with PIC Microcontroller programming
- Industry recognized certifications CompTIA A+, Network+, Security +, Red Hat or Microsoft certifications
- Understanding of Mil-Std-1399 Section 300
- Understanding Mil-Std-461F
- Experience programming in C, Basic and scripting
- Experience with electrical test equipment, signal generators, power-supplies, DVM, brightness and sound meters
- Experience running environmental qualification tests
- Experience with designing for EMI