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Actalent Staff Electrical Engineer in Reston, Virginia

Description:

The Upper Staff Engineer will support a wide range of digital design projects. This person would be joining our client's team to provide advanced electronics and subsystems to cutting-edge satellite programs. These projects push the performance envelope for both power and digital applications in space.

Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to all aspects of the full product lifecycle: from requirements development, through preliminary design, critical design, prototype, test, and production.

  • Responsible for full design discretion and projects

  • Engage directly with customers

  • Manage and mentor more junior staff

  • Contribute to Internal R&D initiatives and strategic direction

Skills:

technical leadership, high speed digital, customer interaction, electronics design, space hardware, electrical engineering, pcb design, new product development, power converter, systems engineering, full life cycle development, cadence, circuit analysis, environmental testing, thermal analysis, vacuum, thermal vacuum

Top Skills Details:

technical leadership,high speed digital,customer interaction

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineer or related field with 12+ years of experience

• 5+ years of experience with digital, high-speed circuit design, including schematic and PCB layout

• 5+ years of experience with development and debug of digital electronics

• Schematic capture and PCB design using Cadence or Altium

• Circuit analysis including worst-case analysis, SPICE simulation, stress, and FMECA

• PCB fabrication, parts procurement, and assembly management

• Benchtop testing and debugging

• Experience with environmental testing (thermal, vacuum, EMI/EMC)

• Experience developing test equipment and test automation

• Experience writing, developing, and maintaining effective documentation (drawings, build procedures, datasheets, etc.)

• Collaboration with multi-disciplinary engineering team

• Familiarity with radiation effects on electronics, EEE parts plans

Preferred:

• Experience with firmware design in VHDL and/or Verilog

• Test script development using Matlab, Simulink, C, or Python

• Experience designing products for operation in space or radiation environments

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

  • Hiring diverse talent

  • Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

  • Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

  • Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com (%20actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com) for other accommodation options.

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