Job Description

Description
SAIC is seeking an Electrical Engineer for our customer site in North Charleston, SC.
Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to):
  • Develop a modular, power distribution architecture for distributed maritime sensors
  • Integrate voltage-level negotiation for subsystems (similar to that of USB-C PD)
  • Incorporate renewable energy solutions such as wave harnessing, solar, peltier into a system architecture for improved persistence
  • Perform power budget analysis to inform power system and support sensing, communication, and edge processing operations of complex systems
  • Develop designs for signal/power PCBs using best practices for trace routing, thermal management, signal isolation, and grounding

Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience; four (4) years additional in lieu of degree
  • Experience programming microcontrollers to monitor system status and implement control systems to toggle power amongst sub-systems/components (C++, microPython, circuitPython, standard Python)
  • Development of DC power distribution architectures
  • IoT experience with low-SWaP sensors and systems
Required Clearance:
  • No clearance required to start, must have the ability to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance
Desired Skills:
  • Knowledge of renewables and integration of various technologies to improve system performance
  • Familiarity with marine connectors and knowledge of electrical systems in highly corrosive environments
  • Experience developing system-level electrical architecture with minimal oversight
  • Knowledge of standard RF principles
  • Familiarity with UART, I2C, RS232, RS485, USB, Ethernet protocols (desired)
  • PCB design for DC power distribution.in small, distributed (IoT) systems incorporating power toggling via microcontroller, renewables, and modular design (desired)