Senior Electrical Engineer

The role

You will support the creation of next generation real-time hardware for an airborne augmented reality system. This includes designing power systems, FPGAs, high speed communication buses, and embedded computer systems through the full product lifecycle.

What you will do

• Support the creation of next generation real-time hardware for an airborne augmented reality system.
• Perform electrical designs including power systems, FPGAs, high speed communication buses, and embedded computer systems.
• Test systems to ensure product design meets performance, quality, and reliability requirements.
• Develop hardware from requirements through prototype, qualification testing, and manufacturing.
• Innovate, run trade studies, prototype options, and influence final design.
• Work with a cross functional team of engineers and program staff.
• Plan, track, and communicate design work against cost and schedule.
• Present, train others, and conduct design reviews.

Required qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 5+ years developing complex electrical systems for aerospace, defense, or other high-reliability applications, or an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Experience with complex airborne or mission-critical systems.
• Deep end-to-end expertise developing dense PCBA designs utilizing CPUs, MPUs, GPUs, displays, sensors, and fiber optic communications.
• Hands-on experience defining electrical interfaces, power architectures, integration strategies, PCBA and flex circuit designs.
• Experience conducting trade studies, design reviews, root cause analysis, performance analysis, and documentation.
• Comfort in the lab with oscilloscopes, power supplies, and spectrum analyzers.
• Strong communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Nice to have

• Hands on military flight hardware development experience, especially taking hardware through qualification and airworthiness and into flight on military aircraft.
• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with FPGAs, SoCs, SOMs, GPUs, displays, sensors, and test systems.
• Test software programming and data analysis.
• PCBA design and circuit simulation experience with Altium.
• High-speed design experience with DDR3/DDR4, PCIe 3.0/4.0, DisplayPort, USB 3.0, Ethernet, VPX, and rugged computing systems.
• Knowledge of avionics protocols like MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, CAN, or other deterministic architectures.
• Experience performing troubleshooting, root cause analysis, DFMEA, risk assessment, and performance analyses.
• A track record designing to military environmental and safety standards, specifically MIL-STD-461 (EMI/EMC) and MIL-STD-810 (environments).
• Systems engineering ISO/IEEE 15288 and product development lifecycles experience.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental, and Vision (100% coverage for Employees)
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick, paid holidays, and parental leave
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Voluntary Worksite Benefits (Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity)
• May be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

About the company

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training.