Lead Principal Engineer

Replies within 24 hours 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. Compensation: $160,000.00 - $190,000.00 per year