Principal Electrical Engineer
Mercury SystemsAbout the role
Job Summary
Mercury’s data management and microelectronic business is seeking an experienced principal electrical engineer to join our growing, engaging, and collaborative Electrical Engineering team. This role will be specifically focused on custom microelectronics solutions for System in Package (SiP) architecture and design. As a valued team member, you'll deliver leading edge microelectronics that are game changing and impactful to our nation’s defense and work with an excellent, multi-disciplined team, to exceed expectations for our commercial, industrial, and military customers.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise to for complex package developments that meets system requirements and customer needs for the team
- Research, design, modify, evaluate, and oversee development of complicated electro-mechanical components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific applications
- Perform electrical design, analysis, and evaluation of varying, low-volume, microelectronic systems and their constituent parts including mixed signal, high-density flip-chips / die, interposers, substrates / printed-wiring-boards, wafers, and materials
- Perform and oversee electrical modeling, simulation, and analysis to evaluate microelectronic assemblies, material properties, signal and power integrity, power delivery, interfaces, environmental effects, Electro-Static Discharge (ESD), etc.
- Act as technical leader in resolving highly complex architecture, design, or SIPI problems when provided incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting requirements.
- Conduct technical investigations of electrical properties and requirements involving the origination or modification of component, subsystem, system, and/or processes
- Support multidisciplinary research and collaboration across engineering disciplines, operations, supply chain, quality, contracts, management, and supporting organizations
- Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
- Consider the effects of actions on the system as a whole. I.e. “Systems-thinking”
- Support operational, maintenance, and testing procedures for electrical products, components, and equipment (including test equipment)
- Technical responsibility for planning, organizing, scheduling, budgeting, and conducting technical projects or phases of projects
- Support project management, capital planning, and project execution
- Prepare specifications, analyses, product documentation, and recommendations for presentation and approval
- Support technical interface to customers, subcontractors, assemblers, fabricators, consultants, and vendors/suppliers as applicable to system-level electrical, power, packaging, and process solutions
- Provide technical mentoring to teams to ensure the team grows technically
- Willing to lead the team in areas outside of specific technical discipline
- Periodic travel may be necessary
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer engineering
- Typically requires a minimum of 6+ years of technical design experience in package development or semiconductor implementation
- Experience designing and simulating signal and power integrity solutions for high-speed system components (packages, PCB, Interposers, substrates)
- Solid experience within microelectronics design
- Strong understanding of Electromagnetic fundamentals
- Able to navigate in layout tools used for PCB and Packages Cadence Allegro / APD+ Required
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- ASIC and Package design and implementation knowledge
- Experience in the DOD and/or Aerospace domains
- Cadence: Concept HDL, Orbit IO, Allegro / APD, and Engineering Data Management (EDM)
- Mentor Valydate
- Keysight ADS
- Atlassian Suite (Jama, Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Lab equipment (o-scopes, logic analyzer, power supplies, etc.)
Qualifications Why should you join Mercury Systems?
Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.c
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