Senior Electrical Engineer

MERC is recruiting for a Senior Electrical Engineer to support its Electronic Warfare and Avionics area.

Responsibilities:

Lead, design, and perform detailed engineering efforts, including but not limited to, providing leadership and participating with a technical team in the conduct of the following tasks:

• Analyzing existing technology applications, processes, and products, taking into consideration costs, life cycle considerations, reliability, maintainability, productivity, and long-term support.
• Performing intensive technology research & evaluation of a broad array of alternative solutions to improve existing implementations.
• Defining and implementing advanced technological implementations and evaluations to provide risk reduction & determine production feasibility of improved and alternate technological implementations.
• Designing, implementing, and achieving operational status of advanced technological and engineering approaches to satisfy customer needs.

Organize, conduct, and achieve detailed cross-functional engineering communication, design, evaluation, and implementations providing novel and unique functionality and capability through:

• Organizing technical teams of multi-disciplined persons to construct a range of technological implementations and solutions for a problem area.
• Participating in multidiscipline design teams and process action team efforts.
• Preparing and presenting design alternatives to a multidiscipline review peer group.
• Preparing and implementing designs that apply multidiscipline solutions achieving breakthrough performance and unique technological applications.

Lead technical teams in their technical interface with current and prospective customers through the following activities:

• Diagnosing existing and prospective customer needs and opportunities through informal and formal interaction to understand present operations and limitations and customer priorities and needs.
• Leading teams in preparing and presenting detailed presentations providing technical solutions, cost estimates, and implementation schedules, using information gathered both directly and indirectly to provide customer insight into technological capabilities that could significantly improve operations.
• Ensuring strong technical communication and understanding through use of terms, design illustrations, and operating paradigms that are common to the customer experience.

Gather, track, maintain, and provide detailed technical, cost, labor, material, and schedule information on programs to senior managers including cost, schedule, and technical risk assessments at all stages of implementation.

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant engineering field (e.g., EE, ME, AE, IE, SW, CE, Computer Science) from an ABET-accredited institution and 9 years of directly related experience; or a Master’s degree in same and 8 years of directly related experience; or a PhD in same and 3 years of directly related experience.
• 3 years of technical lead responsibility.