What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electronics & Lethality Hardware Sensors Engineer position at INFOMATICS?
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Position Description:
This position will consist of providing Electrical Engineering Design and Integration services for a variety of Electro-Optic products used on and in tracked and wheeled military vehicles. This will involve concept development, design, Design Verification Testing (DVT), Procurement support, Prototype build and test, Qualification testing, Fielding, and customer support of fielded hardware. The hardware involved includes but is not limited to the following: Gunner s and Commander s fixed and panoramic sights, Auxiliary Sights, Control Panels, Control handles, various vision systems resolvers, encoders, Gyros, accelerometers, Meteorological sensors, and a variety of Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs).
Some specific activities that will be performed as part of this position are as follows:
Design subsystems and components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Support Circuit Design, Conduct component selection/analysis for commercial, and military Electro-Optical system components, conduct detailed design of Electro-Optical custom components and also generate key characteristics, and component specifications, and perform component selection for supplier-purchased parts.
- Review and develop H/W and S/W requirement documents and test plans.
- Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, develop technical corrective action formulation, troubleshoot and lead redesign activities.
- Strong record-keeping skills with a commitment to tracking design changes, debug status, and H/W and S/W revisions.
- Develop and Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
- Perform testing and evaluation of Electro-Optical components in the GDLS Electro-Optics Lab.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of applicable experience. Fewer years will be considered with an advanced degree.
- Ability to use Engineering Development and Test Tools.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with interdisciplinary teams.
- Strong multi-tasking skills
- Ability to travel to supplier and government sites ( Approx 5%)
- Knowledge in many, but not all, of the following areas is desired:
- IPC and MIL standards
- Digital and Analog circuit design
- Gyroscopes, Encoders, and Cameras
- Development of component/subsystem requirements
- Model-based Motion Control
- Model-based Motion Control Loops
- PWM and PID
- Test Equipment (Power Supplies, Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, DACs)
- Power, thermal analysis, timing, biasing, voltage and current control, LED control, data packet deciphering, etc.
- Schematic development, component selection, circuit simulation, and PCB layout
- Engineering design, development, and analysis of software
- Desired: MATLAB, MATHCAD, Mentor Graphics Schematic Capture, CAM View or CAM350
- Microprocessor-based products including processors, chipsets, memory and bus interfaces, and networking standards (PCI-x press, DDR2, DDR3, USB, SATA, DVI, etc...)
- Microcontrollers include IDEs, configuration, coding, and programming.
- Desired: NXP family of microcontrollers
- Industry interface standards and form factors (VITA42/46, COM Express, ETX, etc ...)
- Serial Interconnects, USB, CAN, RS422/485, etc.)
- Graphics/video interfaces (SDI, DVI, HDMI, RS-170, etc.)
- EMI/EMC design practices and standards.
- C, C#, Visual Studio Suite
- Optical hardware and testing
