Electrical Engineer

Description

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success.  We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics.

The Airborne Systems Division, within the Defense Group at Leidos is seeking Electrical Engineer to join our Beavercreek Ohio, Pentagon Blvd. office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) Sensors Directorate, Rapid Technology Development & Demonstrations (RTD2) program perform research and development in the areas of open systems architecture (OSA) and rapid integration and demonstration of ISR technologies. In support of this multi-year high visibility program, your position as a Electrical Engineer will be to support USAF programs at Wright Patterson Air Force Base through a combination of laboratory, ground, and flight testing.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist with the design, develop and deploy military R&D airborne stores and equipment
• Participate in laboratory, ground and flight testing to validate electrical hardware
• Document and communicate proposed electrical hardware solutions with integrated, cross-functional engineering teams in a fast paced highly technical environment 
• Use modeling tools for hardware products and systems (Creo Schematics, Creo Parametric)
• Contribute to investments and research that fuel innovation and technological advancements
• Explain technical solutions, practices and procedures to others within the organization

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or similar engineering discipline and 1-2 Years prior relevant experience or Masters Degree with less than 2 years relevant experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with cable/harness design and component selection
• Experience with schematics programs (Creo Schematics or similar)
• Familiarity with common electrical tools such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, power meters
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-disciplined engineering team
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance

Security Clearance Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret (or higher) Clearance
• Experience in electrical subsystems for airborne platforms (manned and unmanned), ground stations, ISR pods
• Experience in design and evaluation of radio voice and data systems, tactical line of sight and SATCOM
• Experience in DoD information security devices (e.g. data diodes, cryptographic equipment, and cross-domain solutions)
• Experience in product lifecycle process to include identifying/mitigating risks, bench and SIL testing, and product deployment and maintenance
• Previous Flight-line experience
• Setting up hardware for testing (discrete and analog signals, RS-232, USB, Ethernet, Fiber) • Experience with using electrical measurement tools for troubleshooting and fault isolation, such as: multimeters, oscilloscopes, power meters, signal analyzers, and signal generators
• Troubleshooting and fault isolation skills (e.g. ohmmeters, network testers oscilloscopes, signal generators, RF analyzers)

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.