Senior Test Equipment Design Engineer

This role will provide electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team, decomposing test requirements, designing, integrating, and selling-off test stands, working with prime mission equipment designers to support first unit test, design verification test, integration, transition to full rate production, and sustainment of complex digital, analog, RF, and optical circuit cards and modules.

This position may include the following activities:
Design of analog, power, digital, and RF circuits
Design of complex interconnects and cables
Design of environmental controls for Environmental Stress Screening
Procurement, assembly, and verification of test stands
Extensive experience working with production engineering to design reliable, efficient, and timely test stands
Agile hardware development, risk-reduction prototyping, and requirements-driven design and verification
Knowledge of engineering development processes for aero/defense industry, including designing and testing to MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461
State-of-the-art electrical engineering design/analysis/sim tools
Strong “hands-on” laboratory experience with instrumentation, equipment, and processes
Working experience with Interface standards including military/avionics communication buses (i.e. RS-485, Mil-Std-1553B, Ethernet)
Lead/Mentor a team of junior engineers
Support test and troubleshooting of test stands working directly with program engineering personnel as required
Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause
Generate and implement improvements in test design and methodologies to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput
Generate and review the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Engineering Change Orders, and other documentation
Interface with governmental customers and suppliers as required
Provide training and support to technicians and manufacturing personnel as required
Support Root Cause and Corrective Action activities
Mentor peers and more junior engineers in areas of expertise

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 4 years work or equivalent experience
Electronic test station/test stand
Power Supply/Systems Design, Analog Circuit Design, Digital Circuit Design Experience
PSPICE or equivalent analog circuit simulation tool experience
Cadence Allegro for schematic capture and PCB design
Basic microwave Technology
Proficient in circuit active and passive devices
Procurement, tracking, assembly, and integration experience
Ability to obtain Secret security clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
Industrial temperature or better (automotive)
Complex electronics test stand design
CAD based schematic capture and simulation
Able to direct layout and routing rules
Basic test software design and integration
Basic test firmware design and integration
Demonstrated design success - meet difficult design requirements