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JOB TITLE: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER III
DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
REPORTS TO: SENIOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
CLASSIFICATION: EXEMPT
Job Summary:
Under indirect supervision, design electrical systems for aircraft installations.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Responsible for electrical schematics and harness diagrams of UAV and the ground station
- Responsible for COTS avionics interconnections to the baseline electrical systems
- Responsible for maintaining and updating the custom avionics technical data packages
- Responsible for the aircraft power budget (generation capacity vs power draw)
- Creation of technical data packages including schematics, BOM, manufacturing instructions, test procedures and end user instructions
- Work in a team environment on requested changes to the baseline design
- Review and plan requested changes to the electrical system, including estimating schedule, budget, and tasking
- Lead a small team of electrical engineers, including coordination of tasks, schedule, budget requests and delivery
- Coordination with Mechanical, Aerospace and Software Engineering on design requirements including schedule, budget, testing and documentation
- Coordination with mechanical and electrical technicians for the integration of new payloads, within responsibility of TDP development and post-installation test verifications
- Coordination with quality assurance for review and verification of designs
- Planning and execution of electrical systems tests toward FAA or DoD aircraft standards
- Recommends electrical system changes within provided technical roadmap and strategy documents
- Other required duties as assigned
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Design, or other fields with relevant electrical engineering experience
- 5-7 years of professional experience in electrical engineering and software development for system level integration and testing
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance
- Direct experience in the development of electrical systems for unmanned aircraft or other robotic systems
- Working knowledge of power generation and load analysis
- Experience with circuit design including PCB design, debugging, and unit/system level testing
- Experience with electronic components, wire harnesses, and test instrumentation e.g. oscilloscopes, DMM, power supply and RF meters
- Professional experience working with sensors, IMUs, optical and GPS
- Experience with firmware development.
- Familiarity with 3D CAD (SolidWorks or similar)
- Proficient in circuit and system level documentation, organizational and communication skills.
- Platform Aerospace s engineering work environment is a fast-paced environment with high rewards for the right individual
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
- Master s degree in electrical or computer engineering
- Understanding design requirements of hardware in high vibration and temperature environments
- Experience with MATLAB, Python, LabView and National Instruments Systems
- Experience with interface such as SPI, I2C, CAN, GPIB, and USB.
- Working knowledge of embedded PCB design and writing low-level firmware
- Experience with computer schematic drawing packages
- Experience with electrical simulation software
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