| Electrical Engineer III |
| Caribou Thunder |
| Location: Huntsville, AL | Requisition#: MS10010 | Date Posted: 2/8/2024 | Salary: TBD |
| Security Clearance: Ability to obtain Secret/ Secret Preferred | Education: Bachelor’s degree (STEM) | Experience: 5 years
(3 years with a master’s degree) |
| Position Summary | Caribou Thunder is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Electrical Engineer to join the team and perform cradle-to-grave launch vehicle-centric hardware engineering. This entails being a part of the hardware development for multiple technical baselines and the associated operations planning, design engineering, ground support development, analysis, testing, integration, and launch/retrofit operations planning. |
| Complete Description | As an Electrical Engineer III, you will perform comprehensive review of internal, external and range requirements to support launch vehicle system level design and vehicle subsystem design. Perform detailed analyses to support/verify designs and conduct briefings to management and customers. Lead development, coordination, and execution of test programs required to evaluate the design. Oversee component supplier design, analysis, manufacture, and test. Lead troubleshooting efforts and comprehensive failure investigations. Mentor other engineers from a technical standpoint as well as perform senior peer review. Collaborate early and often with other engineering disciplines and operations/manufacturing groups.- Prepares and presents electrical engineering materials for Requirements and Design Reviews
- Studies basic design concepts and criteria for more complex problems
- Applies electrical engineering principles to adapt or improve upon heritage features from previous successful designs of a similar nature
- Perform qualification testing, characterization testing, troubleshooting, and test data review of completed designs
- Perform data analysis to identify trends that may indicate out of tolerance or degraded part performance
- Perform testing to characterize off-nominal behavior of components
- Provides inputs into bill of materials (BOMs) and evaluates commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts for compliance
- Actively and effectively participates and contributes in a positive manner while supporting team decisions and goals
- Makes an extra effort to provide quality internal and external customer service
- Constantly seeks new sources of information and provides information necessary to meet customer needs
- Disciplined with escalation when required
- Derives requirements through multiple sources of documentation and design meetings
- Evaluate uncertainty and risks associated with requirements and designs
- Patriciate in impact assessments for both internal projects and procured equipment
- Act with safety as your number one priority through every aspect of the role
- Provides formal peer review of engineering designs or analyses for team members
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| Minimum Requirements | - BS in engineering and 5 Years of Experience. Or 3 Years of Experience and a Masters’ degree within a STEM field
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US DoD Secret Security clearance is required
- Prior experience with the design, test, and/or integration and deployment of electrical components, electrical ground support equipment (EGSE), or subsystems
- Understanding and application of company electrical engineering technical standards; demonstrated electrical component design experience and impact assessment / DAR development exposure
- Technical expertise and working knowledge of other related disciplines
- Must be able to meet GWS Firewall requirements
- Ability to travel at least 10%
- Must be able to support an in-person / closed-area work environment full time
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| Preferred Requirements | - B.S. in Electrical engineering preferred
- Active Secret Security Clearance, or higher
- Release of engineering documentation including technical drawings, specifications, and test procedures
- Burndown of nonconformances and/or root cause failure analysis of electronic systems
- Problem solving not only for technical issues, but also for schedule, cost, resource and other project challenges
- Mentoring and cross-training team members across a diverse set of technologies and electrical system architectures used to meet customer requirements
- Experience using analytical software tools, such as MATLAB or Python, to analyze and reduce data to identify key characteristics and trends
- LabVIEW programming and experience with National Instruments (NI) hardware and software products
- LabVIEW FPGA development experience
- DOORS and/or CAMEO exposure
- Experience with classified test systems or systems subject to cyber security policies and risk management framework (RMF)
- Experience with telemetry systems
- Experience with mission critical and safety critical systems, components, connectors, cables, etc.
- Familiarity with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Core Standards: MDA-QS-001-MAP, MDA-QS-003-PMAP, MDA Instruction 5000.20-INS (ETR Process)
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-1901A, MIL-STD-882, EWR-127, RCC 319, RCC 324, DoDEA 8510.01, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab, ECSS-ST-50-11C
- Familiarity with the GMD domain and GMD Launch Support Systems hardware
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| Company Description | Caribou Thunder, LLC is a Woman Owned, HUBZone Certified, Native American Owned, SBA and SDB Certified global engineering services company, incorporated in 2006.
Caribou Thunder is a Global Service Provider supporting a wide variety of DoD, Space, and Intelligence programs with consistent growth since inception to over 100 associates and $10M in annual sales with solid performance in 35 states across the U.S. and 22 countries around the world. Caribou Thunder, LLC is an established Defense contractor with nearly 20 years of experience delivering engineering services worldwide. We offer industry-leading salaries, flexible work-life balance, full range of benefits (career development and mentoring, PTO, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401k match). Caribou Thunder, LLC offers meaningful career opportunities within a true team-based environment, where every employee matters, contributing to a higher goal of supporting National Security programs.
Caribou Thunder, LLC is committed to hiring and maintaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. United States citizenship is a requirement for all positions. |
