Senior Principal Electrical-Optics Engineer

Basic QualificationsRequires a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering, Technology or Mathematics field. Also requires 10+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 8 years of job-related experience.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

Ability to obtain a Department of Defense TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

• Direct experience designing and troubleshooting mixed-signal PWBs that combine precision analog, switching or linear power, digital logic, FPGAs, memories, and high-speed interfaces.
  
• Direct, relevant experience designing high-speed digital hardware and interfaces operating at frequencies up to 10 GHz.
  
• Direct experience with electro-optical hardware, including cameras, lasers, fiber-optic communications equipment, optical transceivers, optical attenuators, or optical switching.
  
• Recent hands-on use of PCB design, simulation, and analysis tools such as Xpedition, HyperLynx, LTspice, MATLAB, or closely comparable tools.
  
• Practical experience with schematic capture, PCB design review, design for test, design for manufacturability, board bring-up, laboratory troubleshooting, test procedures, and laboratory instrumentation.
  
• Ability to document hardware architectures and ICDs spanning electrical, optical, mechanical, FPGA/firmware, and software interfaces, and to brief management and customers at an appropriate level of detail.
  
• Demonstrated ability to distinguish technical symptoms from root causes and drive complex hardware and system issues to evidence-based resolution.

Responsibilities for this Position

ROLE AND POSITION OBJECTIVES

We are seeking a senior electrical engineer to design, integrate, test, and sustain Free-Space Optical (FSO) communications systems, modem hardware, and associated development and test equipment. This role spans board-level circuit design through system architecture, customer engagement, and technical leadership.

What You Will Do

• Architect and design printed wiring boards and electro-optical systems for FSO communications products, modems, and test equipment, including COTS components, precision analog circuits, power supplies, FPGAs, memories, high-speed digital interfaces, and optical/network components.
  
• Integrate cameras, lasers, fiber-optic links, SFPs, variable optical attenuators, optical switches, and associated monitoring and control hardware into reliable end-to-end systems.
  
• Define electrical, optical, mechanical, firmware, and software interfaces; produce reviewable hardware architectures, ICDs, design analyses, schematics, test plans, and verification evidence.
  
• Perform circuit simulation and analysis, including tolerance, signal-integrity, power-integrity, thermal, and relevant worst-case electrical, timing, power, environmental, and tolerance analyses.
  
• Use current design and analysis tools, including Siemens/Mentor Xpedition, HyperLynx, LTspice, MATLAB, and comparable analog, digital, and electro-optical tools.
  
• Lead hardware bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective action at board and system levels.
  
• Develop test approaches, fixtures, and automated test capabilities; use Python, C, C++, or comparable languages for test automation, instrument control, data collection, and engineering analysis.
  
• Support proposals and customer engagement by defining technical approaches, risks, estimates, requirements, and user needs before Performance Work Specification (PWS) definition.
  
• Mentor engineers, delegate work intentionally, and share critical technical knowledge across multiple concurrent programs.
  Required Qualifications
  
• 10+ years of progressively responsible electrical-engineering experience and ownership of complex board- or system-level designs.
  
• Direct experience designing and troubleshooting mixed-signal PWBs that combine precision analog, switching or linear power, digital logic, FPGAs, memories, and high-speed interfaces.
  
• Direct, relevant exp.

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