Benefits:

401(k) Flexible schedule Health insurance

Lead Principal Engineer Location:

Canonsburg, PA Hybrid:

Flexible work from home days

Security Clearance:

DoD Secret preferred; must be obtainable within a reasonable period after hire

Work Authorization:

U.S.

Citizenship Required Summary:

The Lead Principal Engineer supporting the MK48 program will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electronic systems. This role provides system- and hardware-level architectural leadership across the full product lifecycle, including design, integration, verification, qualification, production, and sustainment. The engineer will define and evaluate architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical technologies; translate system requirements into hardware requirements and interfaces; lead technical investigations; and provide direction to multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role is highly hands-on and requires expert-level electrical/electronic architecture and FPGA experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Define, develop, and evaluate complex system and hardware architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical elements. Provide technical leadership for circuit design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and qualification. Lead design reviews, architecture assessments, failure reviews, trade studies, and technical investigations. Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies addressing performance, cost, schedule, and program impacts. Perform root-cause analysis for development, production, and fielded-system issues and implement corrective actions. Evaluate embedded processors, SoCs, FPGAs, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces. Support product roadmaps, technology insertion, technical proposals, and future capability development. Identify opportunities to apply AI to engineering analysis, automation, and continuous improvement. Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, cybersecurity, producibility, cost, schedule, and lifecycle objectives. Review schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and design-analysis artifacts. Support hardware builds, laboratory investigations, integration, qualification, production readiness, and sustainment.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with 10+ years of job-related experience, OR Master's degree with 8+ years of job-related experience. Expert-level experience in Electrical/Electronic Architecture. Expert-level experience with FPGAs. Extensive experience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting complex electronic systems. Experience across analog, digital, power-electronics, and mechanical interfaces, with deep expertise in one or more areas. Demonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend system/hardware architecture decisions. Experience with embedded processors, FPGA/SoC-based systems, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces. Experience with DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion, power distribution, and power-system design. Proficiency reviewing schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and engineering analyses. Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, EMC, component derating, and electronic reliability. Experience with mixed-signal circuit design. Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, probes, and related laboratory equipment. Experience integrating and testing electronic assemblies within complex mechanical systems. Experience supporting products through development, qualification, production, sustainment, failure investigation, and corrective action. Strong technical judgment, analytical skills, and written/verbal communication. U.S. Citizenship required. Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance within a reasonable period after hire. Flexible work from home options available.