Electrical Engineer
Employer name not established · North Charleston, South Carolina, United States · onsite
SAIC is seeking a highly motivated Electrical Engineer to join our team, supporting the design, development, troubleshooting, testing, and in-service support of the Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2s) program 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
Required Education:
- Bachelor's degree and two (2) 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
Clearance:
- Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance