Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Sugar Land, TX
Full Time
Experienced
Systel Careers – Senior Electrical Design Engineer – Sugar Land, TX

About the Job
We have an immediate need for a Senior Electrical Design Engineer with extensive experience in 
hardware electronic design and development. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in 
and experience with aerospace and defense electronics, including high-speed PCB design and 
EMI/power military specifications.
The Senior Electrical Design Engineer will be responsible for researching, designing, developing, 
documenting, testing, and supporting production of electrical subsystems for use in computers, test 
equipment, test fixtures, displays, and computer peripherals. This role will also be responsible 
for providing leadership to the Electrical Engineering group (within the Design Engineering team).

This role will report to the Director of Design Engineering at Systel.

Who You Are
You possess strong interpersonal communication skills and thrive in an evolving technical 
environment that provides opportunities for innovation, teamwork, and personal ownership. You 
ensure delivery of quality solutions that meet system requirements and on-time deliveries. You can 
provide mentoring, limited technical oversight, and support to more junior members of the EE team. 
You have 5-12 years of demonstrated experience working as a primary contributor on a technical 
team, 7 years of experience related to PCB design and electronic systems design and 5 years of 
experience related to the packaging of electronic equipment/systems.

The Work
Design Engineering
  • Design high-speed printed circuit boards (PCBs), cables, and interconnects
  • Create computer system interconnect diagrams and/or wiring diagrams
  • Direct and advise the creation of embedded firmware designs
  • Design test fixtures, and test plans for various electrical equipment
  • Manage preliminary, critical, and final design reviews
  • Create, review, and revise Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM)
  • Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
Documentation
  • Create reference, build, and assembly documentation for printed circuit boards and assemblies
  • Create reference and assembly documentation for computer system interconnects and wiring
  • Create Interface Control Documents (ICD), test plans, programming instructions, and miscellaneous 
  • instructions for all designs
  • Complete all documentation within Systel’s document management system.
  • Revise existing documentation through Systel’s engineering change process Prototyping
  • Direct individual component prototype, build, and test
  • Assist with system prototype build and test
  • Review prototypes and incorporate lessons learned into designs Support
  • Assist in the creation of product specification documents
  • Participate in quote, contract, and design reviews
  • Complete electrical engineering specific support requests including engineering change requests, customer technical support escalations, manufacturing problems or questions, component supply problems, component end-of-life, etc.
  • Sustaining Engineering: Continuous support for existing product or product lines for issues such as End of Life, Internal/External customer changes or revisions, component/system failure, and new configurations.
Lead
  • Provide leadership and mentoring to the Electrical Engineering group.
  • High involvement in design reviews, technical interchange meetings, and ECO approvals.
Minimum Qualifications 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
  • 7 years of experience responsible for designing and delivering electrical subsystems for use in computers, test equipment, test fixtures, displays, and computer peripherals (or equivalent systems)
  • Knowledge of high-speed digital interfaces (PCI express, USB 3.0, DisplayPort, DVI, Ethernet, etc.)
  • Knowledge of low-speed digital interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, USB 2.0, CAN, etc.)
  • General knowledge of standards and testing processes related to (or equivalent with): MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461, DO-160, ATX, COM Express, 2014/30/EU
  • Schematic capture using electrical CAD package (Altium preferred).
  • Electrical CAD parts library management.
  • PCB layout using electrical CAD package (Altium preferred).
  • High speed PCB layout including, impedance control, layer stack planning/management, length matching, and differential pair routing.
  • High current PCB layout.
  • Creation of PCB manufacturing documents.
  • Computer system design, including wiring/interconnect diagrams, cable/interconnect design, electronics thermal management, and power budgeting.
  • Version control for designs and documentation (git, SVN, etc.)
  • Basic microcontroller firmware design and test (C or C++)
  • Computer systems build, test, and troubleshoot (ATX, ITX, COM Express, VPX).
  • Advanced electronics hardware troubleshooting using electrical test equipment (oscilloscope, DMM, Hipot, spectrum analyzer, etc.)
  • Electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing, modeling, diagnostics, and mitigation.
  • Basic electronics and cables build and modification (soldering surface mount and thru hole, splicing wires, crimping, heat shrink, etc.)
  • Technical written and verbal communication using Microsoft Office
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
  • Previous technical experience with military computing technology and testing standards (e.g., MIL-STD-461G, MIL-STD-1275E)
  • Altium Designer schematic capture and layout
  • FPGA gateware design (VHDL or Verilog)
  • Computer system build, config, and test (CPU, SDRAM, GPU, BIOS, Drivers, Windows, Linux)
About Systel 
Rugged Compute Where Mission Meets Critical.
 
Founded in 1988, Systel, Inc.® is a leading manufacturer of rugged compute solutions, including rackmount and embedded computer products. Our pedigree of capabilities spans numerous advanced platforms with thousands of successful deployments primarily in the defense and commercial sectors. Systel’s rugged systems are designed and manufactured for continuous operation under the most extreme and austere environmental conditions. All of our products are proudly made in the USA in the company’s headquarters in Sugar Land, TX. We are AS9100:2016 and ISO 9001:2015 certified.   

For more information, please visit systelusa.com. 
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