Electronics and Lethality Hardware Sensors Engineer

Position Description:

This position will consist of providing Electrical Engineering Design and Integration services for a variety of Electro-Optic products used on and in tracked and wheeled military vehicles. This will involve concept development, design, Design Verification Testing (DVT), Procurement support, Prototype build and test , Qualification testing , Fielding , and customer support of fielded hardware. Hardware involved includes but is not limited to the following : Gunner’s and Commander’s fixed and panoramic sights, Auxiliary Sights, Control Panels , Control handles, various vision systems resolvers , encoders, Gyros, accelerometers, Meteorological sensors , and a variety or Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs).

Some specific activities that will be performed as part of this position are as follows:

• Design subsystems and components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental requirements.
• Support Circuit Design, Conduct component selection/analysis for commercial, military Electro-Optical system components, conduct detailed design of Electro-Optical custom components and also generate key characteristics, component specifications and perform component selection for supplier purchased parts.
• Review and develop H/W and S/W requirement documents and test plans.
• Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, develop technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and lead redesign activities.
• Strong record keeping skills with commitment to tracking design changes, debug status, H/W and S/W revisions.
• Develop and Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
• Perform testing and evaluation of Electro-Optical components in the GDLS Electro-Optics Lab.

Position Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of applicable experience. Fewer years will be considered with an advanced degree.

- Ability to use Engineering Development and Test Tools.

- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with interdisciplinary teams.

- Strong multi-tasking skills

- Ability to travel to supplier and government sites ( Approx 5%)

-Knowledge in many, but not all, of the following areas desired:

- IPC and MIL standards

- Digital and Analog circuit design

- Gyroscopes, Encoders, and Cameras

-Development of component/subsystem requirements

-Model-based Motion Control

-Model-based Motion Control Loops

-PWM and PID

-Test Equipment (Power Supplies, Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, DACs)

- 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 including processors, chipsets, memory and bus interfaces, networking standards (PCI-xpress, DDR2, DDR3, USB, SATA, DVI, etc...)

- Microcontrollers including IDEs, configuration, coding, and programming.

- Desired: NXP family of microcontrollers

- Industry interface standards and form factors (VITA42/46, COM Express, ETX, etc ...)

- Serial Interconnects, USB, CAN, RS422/485, etc.)

-Graphics/video interfaces (SDI, DVI, HDMI, RS-170, etc.)

- EMI/EMC design practices and standards.

- C, C#, VisualStudio Suite

- Optical hardware and testing

EOE (Veteran/Disability)