Engineering Designer III Job Job in Mclean, Virginia US
Engineering Designer III Job
Description: The Mission Support Business Unit (MSBU) is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer. The candidate will design new mixed-signal custom communication products as well as expand and improve upon existing designs for networking and other communications applications. Develops designs for electronic, electro-mechanical, or mechanical equipment. Develops basic data and makes preliminary layouts, sketches, and notes necessary to present design proposal. Investigates pertinent design factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replaceability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements and cost. Candidate should have an understanding of the customer and customer's mission needs. Qualifications : Required Skills: Bachelors degree (or equivalent work experience) and 2 or more years of experience in digital and analog circuit design including power regulation and conditioning, mixed signal design, for products that include microcontrollers, memory, and FPGAs. The candidate must also have experience with hardware design packages such as OrCAD, and other hardware production processes including layout, and component/materials selection. The candidate must also have experience with designing hardware for networking and communications applications. Experience with embedded software development in C and experience coding in VHDL/Verilog is also required. Experience with test equipment including spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and software tools such as Wireshark is required. Candidate must have a SECRET level or higher clearance. Desired Skills: Experience with power distribution equipment and components. Experience with ASIC design and VLSI design/simulation/verification packages is highly desired. TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 6+ years related experience. SAIC Overview: SAIC is a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company's approximately 41,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of $11.1 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2011. For more information, visit www.saic.com . SAIC: From Science to Solutions® Job Posting: Mar 20, 2012, 1:16:04 PM Primary Location: United States-VA-MCLEAN Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph Potential for Teleworking: No Travel: None Shift: Day Job Schedule: Full-time