Electrical Engineer Team Lead (Space) - Power Device Corporation

Electrical Engineering Space Team Lead

Mission Critical … Join PDC and make a Difference

For more than 50 years, Power Device Corporation (PDC) has been recognized as a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-reliability Connectivity, Power, and Control solutions for the Aerospace, Defense, and Space industries. Our dedication to supplying quality products, on-time delivery, and superior support, has contributed to the success of our customers and the critical missions they serve.

To continue to meet our customer’s mission critical needs, PDC is seeking an Electrical Engineer Team Lead with components and boards for space applications experience to join our respected and valued team.

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the Space Business Unit Team in designing, maintaining, and validating PDC’s leading edge components and boards for space applications (satellites, space missions). Your expertise will be vital in providing technical support to customers, developing new product ideas, supporting product roadmaps and working with the Chief Technologist, Business Unit Team and Engineering Team in responding to customer proposals.

This role is 100% on-site in our Poway, CA office.

The salary range for this role is $160,000-$200,000. Based on relative experience.

This position requires a U.S Person or a person who can qualify for a Department of State or Department of Commerce License.

Desirable Job Qualifications - Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is required. Graduate degree desirable.
• 8-10 years of work experience
• Provide technical leadership role within the Engineering department to solve difficult technical challenges or problems or to bring in new technical capability
• Design and develop components and boards for space applications
• Power Integrity and Signal integrity analysis and design for high speed digital (DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, SERDES, etc).
• Perform and document Design verification Testing (DVT), timing analysis, worst-case analysis
• Represent Engineering in technical customer discussions / meetings
• FPGA Design (HDL, synthesis, place/route, timing analysis, simulation)
• Previous management experience.
• Fluent in high speed design rules for circuit boards, layout requirements, circuit board stack-up
• Strong engineering background for component and board designs
• Project planning, budgeting, technical leadership
• Experience and skills in debugging using lab equipment and other tools
• Ability to work in a team setting effectively
• Successfully problem solves and manages conflict
• Has analytical, evaluative, and objective critical thinking skills

Primary/Essential Duties:

Provide technical leadership to lead engineering projects/team through all phases of the product life cycle from requirements, conceptual development and detail design, verification through qualification, manufacturing transition and production support.

1. Develop clearly written requirements and design specifications from a marketing or customer requirement document.
2. Perform original and innovative analog and digital hardware design and distill large scale designs into architectural elements. Generate design reports and present findings to the team – e.g., at design reviews. Facilitate the design of products by coordinating engineering teams of varied technical disciplines through clearly documented design documents. Co-ordinate technical meetings and reviews with other groups.
3. Develop creative approaches that favorably optimize complex design tradeoffs for various elements of a design such as product cost, performance, feature set, time to market, and technical risk.
4. Conceive methods for achieving product requirements and specifications using appropriate circuit design, process, manufacturing and mechanical techniques. Anticipate possible difficulties and develop alternate methods.
5. Perform thermal analysis, electrical stress analysis, worst case analysis, FMEA analysis, tolerance analysis, aging analysis, EMI analysis, simulations, and design verification to ensure that the designs meet the requirements of harsh environments for the applications.
6. Develop plans, budgets, schedules, and identify resources required to develop products from market requirement through product release. Identify risk areas and develop contingency plans to eliminate or mitigate risk that could result in schedule delays or failure to meet specification or design plan requirements.
7. Mentor, coach, and train engineers to facilitate their ability to progress to higher levels of technical and professional achievement.
8. Contribute technical input to proposals, as well as material and labor cost estimates in support of winning tactical business opportunities and proposals.
9. Provide support for new and legacy products by investigating and resolving issues using tools such as Oscilloscope, Analyzers, DMM, etc.
10. Work with other departments as appropriate to lead vendor or engineering outsource selection decisions based on uniform technical performance, risk and cost tradeoffs.
11. Take the initiative to research, develop, propose, evaluate and/or implement new methods, processes, techniques, tools, components, or technology that improve quality, timeliness and/or performance of DDC’s products or the efficiency or cost effectiveness of DDC’s engineering work.
12. Conduct in-depth technical interviews and make assessments and recommendations that support the hiring of capable and talented technical staff in Engineering

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