Lead Principal Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance

Lead Principal Engineer
Location: Canonsburg, PA
Hybrid: Flexible work from home days
Security Clearance: DoD Secret preferred; must be obtainable within a reasonable period after hire
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizenship Required

Summary:
The Lead Principal Engineer supporting the MK48 program will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electronic systems. This role provides system- and hardware-level architectural leadership across the full product lifecycle, including design, integration, verification, qualification, production, and sustainment.

The engineer will define and evaluate architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical technologies; translate system requirements into hardware requirements and interfaces; lead technical investigations; and provide direction to multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role is highly hands-on and requires expert-level electrical/electronic architecture and FPGA experience.

Key Responsibilities:
- Define, develop, and evaluate complex system and hardware architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical elements.
- Provide technical leadership for circuit design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and qualification.
- Lead design reviews, architecture assessments, failure reviews, trade studies, and technical investigations.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies addressing performance, cost, schedule, and program impacts.
- Perform root-cause analysis for development, production, and fielded-system issues and implement corrective actions.
- Evaluate embedded processors, SoCs, FPGAs, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces.
- Support product roadmaps, technology insertion, technical proposals, and future capability development.
Identify opportunities to apply AI to engineering analysis, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, cybersecurity, producibility, cost, schedule, and lifecycle objectives.
- Review schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and design-analysis artifacts.
- Support hardware builds, laboratory investigations, integration, qualification, production readiness, and sustainment.

Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with 10+ years of job-related experience, OR Master’s degree with 8+ years of job-related experience.
- Expert-level experience in Electrical/Electronic Architecture.
- Expert-level experience with FPGAs.
- Extensive experience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting complex electronic systems.
- Experience across analog, digital, power-electronics, and mechanical interfaces, with deep expertise in one or more areas.
- Demonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend system/hardware architecture decisions.
- Experience with embedded processors, FPGA/SoC-based systems, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces.
- Experience with DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion, power distribution, and power-system design.
- Proficiency reviewing schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and engineering analyses.
- Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, EMC, component derating, and electronic reliability.
- Experience with mixed-signal circuit design.
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, probes, and related laboratory equipment.
- Experience integrating and testing electronic assemblies within complex mechanical systems.
- Experience supporting products through development, qualification, production, sustainment, failure investigation, and corrective action.
- Strong technical judgment, analytical skills, and written/verbal communication.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance within a reasonable period after hire.

Flexible work from home options available.