LEAD ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Job Description

Job Description

Elite Corporate Solutions is seeking an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer to support the electrical architecture and development of thermal sight, targeting, and fire control product lines. This opportunity will focus on leading PCB design programs, providing technical direction, and collaborating with engineering and manufacturing teams while maintaining high standards of quality, reliability, and efficiency.

What you will do:

• Own electrical architecture for uncooled thermal sights, multi-sensor targeting systems, and fire control products from requirements through production.
• Lead complex multilayer PCB design programs end to end: architecture, schematic capture, layout direction, signal and power integrity, bring-up, debug, and design validation.
• Design the sensor and image signal processing (ISP) electronics chain, including detector and ROIC interfaces, FPGA and SoC board design, and high-speed digital video paths for LWIR, MWIR, sCMOS, and CMOS sensors.
• Architect power systems for battery-operated, weapon-mounted, and handheld devices. Own power conversion, sequencing, low-power and sleep-state design, runtime budgets, and the electrical side of the thermal budget.
• Drive ruggedized design for MIL-STD-810H environmental and MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC qualification. Support test campaigns, root-cause failures, and close them out.
• Integrate laser rangefinders, IMU and GNSS subsystems, ballistic compute, and sensor fusion hardware into fielded targeting and fire control systems.
• Partner with mechanical, optical, firmware, and software engineering to close system-level trades on size, weight, power, and cost.
• Own design for manufacturability. Work with our manufacturing and quality teams on vendor qualification, in-process test, ICT and functional test fixtures, and production transition.
• Lead design reviews, own the electrical design record, and hold the team to a documentation standard that survives an audit.
• Mentor and technically direct two to four electrical engineers. Set priorities, review work, and grow the bench.

What you bring:
Required

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
• 10 or more years of professional electrical engineering experience, including 3 or more years leading designs, programs, or engineers.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex multilayer PCB designs taken from concept through production, including high-speed digital and mixed-signal boards.
• Strong command of schematic capture and PCB layout toolchains (Altium Designer or equivalent), and the discipline to drive a clean, reviewable design record.
• Practical signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI mitigation skills applied to compact, densely packed assemblies.
• Low-power and battery-powered system design experience, including power conversion topologies, sequencing, and runtime analysis.
• Hands-on lab competence: oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, thermal camera, and the willingness to debug your own hardware.
• Experience working alongside firmware and software engineers on embedded systems using interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, MIPI, LVDS, and Ethernet.
• Ability to work on-site in Sunrise, FL.
• Must be a U.S. person.

Preferred:

• Direct experience with infrared or electro-optical sensor systems, including detector and ROIC interfaces, ISP chains, and video pipelines.
• FPGA or SoC board design experience (Xilinx, Lattice, or equivalent), including power, clocking, and configuration.
• MIL-STD-810H and MIL-STD-461 qualification experience on fielded hardware.
• Laser rangefinder, IMU, GNSS, or precision navigation hardware integration.
• Defense, aerospace, or other regulated hardware environment with a working knowledge of configuration management and change control.
• Experience transitioning designs into a domestic manufacturing line, including vendor qualification and test fixture development.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.

Why this role
You will not be one electrical engineer among two hundred, working a slice of a subsystem you never see fielded. You will own the electrical design of products that go downrange, and you will hear directly from the end users who carry them. Performance of a product is measured by the quality of End Users, and ours are demanding.