SENIOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Elite Corporate Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to support the development of board-level hardware for thermal sight, fire control, and targeting products. This opportunity will focus on electrical architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, hardware bring-up, and troubleshooting while collaborating closely with firmware, software, mechanical, and optics teams.

What You Will Do

• Architect, design, and release microcontroller and microprocessor based boards from requirements through production, including schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout in Altium Designer.
• Develop FPGA and SoC digital designs in SystemVerilog, including sensor interfaces, timing generation, and image data paths.
• Design and integrate high-speed and low-speed digital interfaces: LVDS, MIPI, DDR, USB, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN.
• Design mixed-signal and imaging front-end electronics, including focal plane array and ROIC interfaces, bias and timing circuits, ADC front ends, and low-noise analog conditioning for LWIR, MWIR, sCMOS, and CMOS sensors.
• Design power and systems electronics for battery-operated, low-SWaP products: DC-DC conversion, battery management, power sequencing, low-noise rails, and standby power budgets.
• Lead design bring-up in the lab. Own first-article debug with oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, and thermal camera, and root cause failures to the component and signal level.
• Perform design analysis before the board is built: worst-case circuit analysis, derating, tolerance stack-up, signal and power integrity, thermal analysis, and failure mode review.
• Drive EMI/EMC and environmental qualification, including MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-810 test planning, chamber support, and design mitigation.
• Support manufacturing and test: design for manufacturability and testability, test fixture definition, functional and in-circuit test, contract manufacturer support, and yield and failure analysis.
• Own the technical baseline: schematics, BOMs, interface documents, engineering change orders, and test reports under our ISO 9001 quality system.
• Support proposals and program reviews with credible technical inputs, trade studies, and risk assessments.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field. Master's degree is a plus.
• 5 to 8 years of professional electronic hardware design experience with products that shipped.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Altium Designer for schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout, including constraint-driven high-speed routing.
• Hands-on experience designing microcontroller and microprocessor based boards, including memory, power, clocking, boot, and peripheral interfaces.
• Working knowledge of SystemVerilog and FPGA design flows, including simulation and timing closure.
• Depth across analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power design rather than a single narrow specialty.
• Proven lab discipline: you bring up your own designs, you instrument the problem, and you root cause it instead of guessing.
• Strong design analysis habits and the technical judgment to defend a design decision with data.
• Clear written and verbal communication with cross-functional teams and customers.
• U.S. citizenship is required for this position.

Nice to Have

• Electro-optical, thermal imaging, camera, or sensor electronics experience.
• Image and signal processing pipeline experience, including sensor calibration, non-uniformity correction, and video interfaces.
• Ruggedized defense or aerospace hardware experience with MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, or equivalent qualification programs.
• RF and wireless design experience, including antenna integration and link budgets.
• Low-SWaP handheld, weapon-mounted, or helmet-mounted product experience.
• Familiarity with IPC-2221, IPC-A-610, or similar design and workmanship standards.
• An active or prior DoD Secret clearance is a plus, but is not required.