Sights and Sensors Electrical Engineer at Softworld Inc

Job Title: 81795 - Sights and Sensors Electrical Engineer

Job Location: Sterling Heights Michigan 48310

Onsite Requirements:

• Electrical Engineer
• Electro-optical
• MATLAB

Job Description:

• Educational Requirement:
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with a minimum of 5 years of applicable experience (fewer years considered with an advanced degree).

• Core Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop electrical components and subsystems for military electro-optical products.
  • Provide support from concept to production delivery, including design, debug, test, and qualification.
  • Develop engineering design fixes and coordinate solutions.
  • Support circuit design, component selection, procurement, and prototype hardware debug and builds.
  • Review and develop hardware and software requirement documents and test plans.
  • Maintain strong record-keeping skills to track design changes, debug status, hardware, and software revisions.

• Skills and Experience:
  • Experience with engineering development and test tools.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Strong multitasking skills.
  • Ability to travel to supplier and government sites.

• Desired Knowledge Areas:
  • IPC and MIL standards.
  • Digital and analog circuit design.
  • Power, thermal analysis, timing, biasing, voltage and current control, LED control, data packet deciphering, etc.
  • Schematic development, component selection, circuit simulation, and PCB layout.
  • Engineering design, development, and analysis software:
    • Desired: MATLAB, MATHCAD, Mentor Graphics Schematic Capture, CAMView, or CAM350.
  • Microprocessor-based products: processors, chipsets, memory and bus interfaces, networking standards (PCI-xpress, DDR2, DDR3, USB, SATA, DVI, etc.).
  • Microcontrollers: IDEs, configuration, coding, and programming.
    • Desired: NXP family of microcontrollers.
  • Industry interface standards and form factors (VITA42/46, COM Express, ETX, etc.).
  • Networking products, hardware, software, switches, routers, OSI layers.
  • Network storage (NAS, SAN), solid-state and rotating drive technologies, interfaces, and protocols (IDE, SATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS).
  • Serial interconnects (USB, CAN, RS422/485, etc.).
  • Graphics/video interfaces (SDI, DVI, HDMI, RS-170, etc.).
  • FPGA design and simulation, VHDL.
  • EMI/EMC design practices and standards.
  • Programming: C, C#, Visual Studio Suite.
  • Optical hardware and testing.

** This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role. **