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Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

Mercury Systems
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 May 2025

About the role

Job Summary

Mercury’s data management and microelectronic business is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Electrical Engineer to join our growing, engaging, and collaborative Electrical Engineering team. This role will provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team 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

  • Provides Technical expertise to for complex package developments that meets system requirements and customer needs for the team
  • Researches, designs, modifies, evaluates, and oversees development of complicated electro-mechanical components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific applications
  • Performs 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
  • Performs or oversees 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.
  • Acts as technical expert in resolving highly complex architecture, design, or SIPI problems when provided incomplete, ambiguous or conflicting requirements.
  • Conducts technical investigations of electrical properties and requirements involving the origination or modification of component, subsystem, system, and/or processes
  • Supports multidisciplinary research and collaboration across engineering disciplines, operations, supply chain, quality, contracts, management, and supporting organizations
  • Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
  • Considers the effects of actions on the system as a whole. I.e. “Systems-thinking”
  • Supports 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
  • Supports project management, capital planning, and project execution
  • Prepares specifications, analyses, product documentation, and recommendations for presentation and approval
  • Supports 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 help 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 10+ years’ experience as a Technical Design lead 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
  • Must be able to obtain government security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • ASIC and Package design and implementation knowledge 
  • Experience in the DOD and/or Aerospace domains 
  • ANSYS: HFSS, Electronics Desktop, Siwave, Q3D
  • Cadence: Virtuoso, SiP, Concept, Orbit IO, Allegro / APD, and Engineering Data Management (EDM)
  • Mentor Valydate
  • Keysight ADS
  • Atlassian Suite (Jama, Jira, Conf

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