Forterra
Senior Electrical Engineer - Design
Clarksburg, MD · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$160kDetected 25 days ago
CybersecurityProcurementStructural AnalysisPCB DesignAltiumMIL-STDElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignPower ElectronicsLeadershipCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Forterra is looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineer to join the Core Product team in Clarksburg, MD.
Responsibilities
- Design Design high-reliability & high-safety criticality hardware for both commercial and military autonomous vehicles.
- Generate design documentation for design maintainability, such as stress analysis, power budgets, firmware/hardware interfaces, SI and PI analysis, component and design trades.
- Provide technical leadership on projects to guide a small, focused team of electrical engineers to develop new hardware designs from concept through production.
- Validation Suggest and perform prototyping testing for risk-reduction of circuits at the component, subsystem, and system levels.
- Perform validation testing of designs through analysis, simulation, and hardware testing.
- Maintain design verification test matrix.
- Collaboration Participate in interdisciplinary design teams and design reviews.
- Long-Term Support Identify and implement improvements of designs to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput.
- Provide production build support for the manufacturing of prototypes through volume ramp-up to production.
- Forterrans are unique, talented individuals who are united through a shared passion to deliver autonomous systems that enable national resilience and a robust supply chain.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Experience working with analog and high-speed (3GHz+) digital signals.
- Experience designing high power and high-speed PCB stackups for high-reliability / high-safety criticality systems.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, hands-on abilities, and working knowledge of common test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and VNAs.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Experience with design for cost, test and manufacturing.
- Experience with Altium Designer, OrCAD, or similar schematic capture / PCB Layout software.
Nice to have
- Experience in small engineering team environment.
- Experience with automotive hardware design.
- Experience designing networking hardware.
- Experience designing embedded computers.
- Experience with safety standards such as ISO 26262 and MIL-STD-882E.
- Familiarity electrical and environmental standards such as with MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD- 810.
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Compensation
- $120k-$160k
Benefits
- Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
- Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
- Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
- A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
- A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.
- Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.
Company info
- About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield.
Equal opportunity
- Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
Visa & Work Authorization
- security clearance
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