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JOB TITLE: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER II

DEPARTMENT: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

REPORTS TO: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING LEAD

CLASSIFICATION: EXEMPT

Job Summary:

Under indirect supervision, design electrical systems for aircraft installations.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Responsible for electrical schematics and harness diagrams of UAV and the ground station.
• Responsible for COTS avionics interconnections to the baseline electrical systems.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating the custom avionics technical data packages.
• Responsible for the aircraft power budget (generation capacity vs power draw).
• Creation of manufacturing and integration technical data packages, such as schematics, bill of materials, and manufacturing instructions.
• Work alongside with other electrical engineers for requested changes to the baseline design.
• Review and plan requested feature additions or changes to the electrical system, including estimating schedule, budget, and tasking.
• Management of a small team of electrical engineers, including coordination of tasking, schedule, budget requests.
• Coordination with mechanical, aero, and software team leads for agreement on schedule and order of operations.
• Coordination with mechanical and electrical technicians for integration of harnesses and new payloads, within responsibility of TDP development and post-installation test verifications.
• Coordination with quality assurance for sign-off of design and work quality.
• Planning and execution of electrical systems tests toward FAA or DoD aircraft standards.
• Recommendations of electrical system changes within provided technical roadmap and strategy documents.
• Other duties as assigned and/or required.

Education and Experience:

Electronic systems, electronics troubleshooting, electronic testing design, electrical power system design, and attention to detail. Must have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 2 to 5 years of relevant electrical engineering experience, or a graduate degree in electrical engineering.

• Direct experience in development of electrical systems for unmanned aircraft or other robotic system
• Working knowledge of power generation and load analysis
• Working knowledge of embedded PCB design and writing low-level firmware is a plus
• Experience with a computer schematic drawing package required, an electrical simulation software is a plus
• Any hobbies in robotics are a plus

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