Senior Electrical Engineer

About

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will work on high performance RF systems used for Radar and Flight Termination System (FTS). Based on system requirements, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary engineering team of RF Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Software Engineers, to derive solutions, perform verification testing, and troubleshoot any issues. A successful candidate will solve complex problems and complete hardware and firmware designs and perform hands on testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with 8+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, with 5+ years related experience.
• Experience with Schematic Capture and Layout of complex mixed signal designs.
• HDI Layout experience understanding the complexities and tradeoffs of complex high-density layouts.
• 5+ years hardware development experience using FPGAs, microprocessors, high speed digital circuits in embedded designs.
• In depth knowledge of engineering standards, theories, concepts, and techniques relevant to electrical and electronic systems built to MIL-STD-461F and above.
• Experience generating Basis of Estimates (BOE) to generate Scope and Pricing for new work.
• Experience developing and publishing technical content from concept to completion, including test procedures, test reports, engineering analyses, white papers, operations/user manuals, and design review materials, in collaboration with engineers, technicians, and stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong team player with the ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers to complete tasks.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government DoD Security Clearance.
• Proficiency in electronic circuit analysis and design applications, such as:
  • Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
  • MATLAB
  • SPICE/PSPICE
  • Keysight Pathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office or Ansys HFSS
  • ModelSim, Vivado, Vitis or Quartus
• Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit modeling, analysis and design and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• 5+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with designing/debugging high speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
• Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq UltraScape+ RFSoCs.
• PCB design experience, including mixed-signal circuitry.
• Experience with antenna theory, design and measurement techniques.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT).
• Coursework or direct experience with radar systems, including:
  • Radar system design and analysis
  • Radar signal processing and simulation
• Understanding of basic RF and microwave engineering principles, including:
  • Transmission lines and matching networks
  • Filter design and analysis
  • Harmonic balance and non-linear effects
  • Cascaded noise figure and signal-to-noise analyses
  • Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Interference (RFI/EMI) effects and mitigation techniques
  • Time- and frequency-domain relationships and analysis techniques

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• 401K program with company match after 12 months
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• On-demand training program
• Access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months tenure
• Certification discounts and other perks to associations including CompTIA and IIBA
• Dedicated customer service team and certified Career Coach for consultants