Principal Electrical Design Engineer
Job Description
Job Summary:
As a Principal Electrical Engineer at Mercury Systems, you will provide technical leadership and oversight to the hardware design team while making significant individual technical contributions. You will lead world-class engineering teams in developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology—from below the ocean to orbiting in space. Lead challenging projects including the world's most secure processing and storage hardware, advanced FPGA RF and signal processing systems, Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) devices, advanced display technologies, and extreme environment electronics that power operations across Space, Air, Land, and Sea. This role requires serving as a technical expert and key liaison between program management, system engineering, mechanical design, software, and manufacturing. You will support proposals with architecting, technical volume writing, and Basis of Estimate (BOE) development, while proactively proposing and implementing process improvements. At Mercury, we work with an Integrator Mindset, collaborating across sites and disciplines to create novel solutions that directly impact the security of our country and the safety of our world.
Job Responsibilities:
Lead engineering teams to design, develop, and verify complex circuits, modules, and systems to meet customer and market requirements
Provide technical leadership for new and ongoing projects from concept through production
Architect and drive cutting-edge solutions for secure processing, data storage, signal processing, DRFM, display, and extreme environment systems
Design using cutting-edge technology including 400/200/100G Ethernet, PCIe Gen 4/5, DDR4/5 SDRAM, high-speed fiber optics from Intel, Xilinx, Altera, NVIDIA, Broadcom, TI and beyond
Lead engineering efforts to support production, resolve manufacturing issues, and conduct field failure investigations
