Sr. Electrical Engineer

Our client is tasked with supporting and maturing the Army's next generation of ground combat vehicles.

As a Sr. Electrical Engineer, your responsibilities include:

• Maturing the vehicle design and integrating various electrical/electronic components and vehicle architectures related to power generation, power distribution, cabling, and communication equipment.
• Applies knowledge of multiple engineering principles and disciplines, including customer understanding as well as in-depth knowledge of assigned product or technology areas in guiding and reviewing project direction and outcomes.
• Maintains state-of-the-art familiarity with industry practices, trends, and applications to enhance the organization's technical capabilities.
• Conceptualizes, creates, and analyzes designs to ensure technical outcomes are consistent with customer and company requirements.
• Experience using lab test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, CAN bus diagnostics tools, and data acquisition such as LabVIEW for testing and verification, is required.
• Experience with vehicle networks such as CAN and Ethernet is required.
• Experience with electrical schematic captures and simulation tools like SPICE is required.
• Familiarity with DC and AC military specifications or commercial automotive power standards and testing requirements is required.
• Experience with electronics at power levels greater than 50kW and voltages greater than 600V is highly desired.
• Experience with the latest Li-Ion battery topologies, Battery Management Systems (BMS), sensors, CAN bus communication, and solid-state power switching devices is desired.
• The integrated product team (IPT) environment of this project requires excellent teamwork skills, technical writing skills, and oral communication skills.
• The candidate must be willing to work in a lab environment with high voltage and high current components.
• Maintains a safe work environment and ensures compliance with safety objectives and policies.

Skills

• This project requires excellent teamwork skills, technical writing skills, written communication skills, and oral communication skills.
• The candidate must have the ability to coordinate work with other engineering design disciplines as well as shop personnel.
• Experience in conducting structured design trade studies.
• Experience with vehicle networking such as CAN, Ethernet, etc.
• Experience in 28V power distribution and power management systems.
• Experience with electronics at power levels greater than 50kW and voltages greater than 600V is desired.
• Experience using lab test equipment (oscilloscopes, power analyzers, CAN, thermal DAS, DAC/ADC converters) for testing and verification.
• The successful candidates will have built and tested project end items.
• Experience in creating electrical block diagrams and schematics using E-CAD tools.
• Experience with integrating and testing Battery Management Systems used for advanced chemistry batteries.
• Experience in EMI and EMC as it relates to component integration and test in an automotive or military platform.

Experience

• Minimum five (5) years' experience with BS. Three (3) years experience with MS.

Education

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering.

Additional Information:

preference is for San Jose...MAY consider candidates at Sterling Heights MI.

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