# Lead Electrical Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a talented Lead Electrical Engineer to join an experienced, high-performing, multidisciplinary team in our Huntsville, AL location.

The successful candidate will be an electrical engineer with project engineering, design engineering, and production skillsets, able to work with inter-disciplinary teams to solve challenging technical problems.

**Primary Responsibilities**

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transition low-rate initial production LRUs to full-scale production

- Serve as IPT Lead, coordinating between System IPT and Production IPT to ensure seamless integration

- Lead and provide technical direction to a team of engineers throughout all phases of the product lifecycle

- Translate low-level engineering tasks into program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) deliverables

- Ensure engineering tasks are completed on time or ahead of schedule to support production and manufacturing requirements

- Review designs and test data and provide direction/feedback to other engineers

- Oversee the development and integration of Special Test Equipment (STE) into a production environment

- Contribute to proposals by providing estimates and written artifacts

- Manage obsolescence of electrical components throughout product life cycle

- Support validation & verification testing and assemble compliance artifacts

- Facilitate the closure of test failures and non-conformances with engineering staff and manufacturing

- Resolve defects and errors identified during manufacturing processes

- Support test and troubleshooting of RF, digital, and power electronics

- Lead Failure Review and Corrective Action committees for critical component failures

- Present to program leadership and customers in weekly meetings, quarterly IPRs, and CDRs

- Integrate LRUs into larger systems by collaborating with system design teams on design updates

- Coordinate with line management and program management to identify staffing opportunities and accelerate schedules

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited institution

- At least twelve (12) years of experience in the design and test of electronics or ten (10) years with MS degree

- Demonstrated experience in the design, test, and manufacture of analog/mixed-signal PCBs or integrated RF/microwave assemblies

- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams through production transitions from LRIP to full-rate production

- Proficiency in engineering leadership and team management

- Hands-on laboratory experience with instrumentation, test equipment, and debug/test methods

- Ability to perform in a collaborative engineering environment working closely with multi-disciplinary teams

- Demonstrated experience effectively communicating within a team environment

- Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama, AL area

- Ability to obtain and maintain secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited institution

- Experience and/or working knowledge of:

- RF electronics design and high-speed digital design

- Radar/Comms Experience

- IPT Lead experience in defense or aerospace programs

- PCB fabrication & assembly processes

- MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461 testing

- Windchill PLM

- MATLAB

- Project planning and resource management

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- analog/mixed-signal PCBs
- RF/microwave assemblies
- engineering leadership
- team management
- instrumentation
- test equipment
- debug/test methods

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
- RF electronics design
- high-speed digital design
- Radar/Comms Experience
- IPT Lead experience
- PCB fabrication & assembly processes
- MIL-STD-810
- MIL-STD-461 testing
- Windchill PLM
- MATLAB
- Project planning and resource management

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