• Senior Electrical Engineer

    SAIC (North Charleston, SC)


    Description

    SAIC is seeking a **Senior Electrical Engineer** for our customer site in **North Charleston, SC** .

    Roles/Responsibilities: (include, but are not limited to)

    + Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors

    + Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD).

    + Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence.

    + Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems.

    + Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding.

    Qualifications

    Required Education:

    + Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience

    Relevant Background/Experience

    + Development of DC power distribution architectures.

    + Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components.

    + Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols.

    + IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems.

    + PCB design for DC power distribution.in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design.

    Desired Skills:

    + Power Distribution Design for DC Systems

    + PCB Design (Power and Signal)

    + Proven development of power control systems for low SWaP architectures to improve or maintain persistence on power source.

    + Experience with microcontrollers (C++, microPython, circuitPython, standard Python) for interfacing with sensors, relays, etc.

    + Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance.

    + Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments.

    + Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight.

    + Knowledge of standard RF principles.

    + Self-starter who will attack problems and is capable of identifying problems, developing solutions, and troubleshooting systems independently.

    Required Clearance:

    + Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a secret security clearance. Active clearance preferred.

    REQNUMBER: 2511314

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