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Sr Prin Electrical Design Engineer - Huntsville, AL

Mercury Systems
paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Alabama, Huntsville
555 Sparkman Dr Nw Ste 400 (Show on map)
Oct 31, 2025
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Sr Prin Electrical Design Engineer
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Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Job Description

Job Summary:



Mercury Systems Mixed Signal business unit is developing sophisticated mission-critical embedded technology to withstand the most rugged environments. We have a career opportunity for an electrical engineer to provide technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team. This role is a technical lead in the HW design group, where one can lead a world class hardware team, as well as still making individual technical contributions on the team. The candidate will be a strong technical leader, providing technical oversight and direction to the hardware design team.



In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with a world class electrical engineering team that involves in complete hardware development life cycle of new products to bring cutting-edge technology to mission-critical aerospace and defense applications. Your talent will be utilized to bridge commercial innovation with defense-grade security to ensure our warfighters and allies have the technological advantage. This role will play a key role as a hardware engineering team member developing and sustaining data storage and transfer systems for the Data Systems Product Line, while contributing directly to hardware development efforts on programs.



Job Responsibilities:



  • Creatively design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules and systems to meet customer and market requirements. This position is for a recognized proficient Hardware Electrical Design Engineer.
  • Creatively design, develop and verify complex circuits, modules and systems to meet customer and market requirements. This position is for a recognized proficient Hardware Electrical Engineer.
  • Assisting in review of system electrical requirements from product management and/or customers.
  • Developing schematics and PCB designs for rugged electronics and computer systems.
  • Creating and validating high-speed PCIE cabling and expansion solutions
  • Driving design functional specifications and supporting documentation
  • Collaborating with other functional disciplines to create and share solutions
  • Supporting electrical compliance testing to military and aerospace electrical standards.
  • Developing test plans and assisting in creating test procedures
  • Drive board bring and debug, test and verification of electrical designs
  • Interfacing with suppliers and customers to address technical issues
  • Providing mentorship and guidance to junior hardware engineers and peers.
  • Product requirement testing and validation
  • Detailed design documentation


Required Qualifications:



  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or closely related and typically 8 or more years of related experience
  • Experience designing complex embedded digital hardware products from concept to completion
  • Experience designing cutting-edge high-speed digital design of:


    • Technology from Intel (Altera), AMD(Xilinx), Microchip, TI and beyond
    • 400/200/100G Ethernet, PCIe4/5, DDR4/5 SDRAM Memory.
    • Support circuitry to include DC/DC power, Clocking, JTAG, SPI, I2C, UARTs
    • High speed fiber optics


  • Experience with ruggedized military and space environments
  • Experience developing detailed design specifications, test plans, and verification reports
  • Experience with schematics using Cadence DEHDL (Concept) or equivalent
  • Experience supporting CAD and Signal Integrity (SI) with PCB Rules with Cadence Allegro or equivalent
  • Experience with Lab Debug skills for both HW/SW that range from new development to continued sustaining
  • Experience leading projects, and mentoring other engineers
  • Ability to travel as needed between west and east coast facilities or to a customer site
  • This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance in the future. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.


Preferred Qualifications:



  • An existing DoD Secret Clearance
  • Experience designing with Intel (Xilinx) and AMD(Altera) FPGA's
  • Experience designing network switching (Mellanox, Broadcom, Marvel)
  • Experience using Cadence Allegro experience for CAD/SI layout and simulation
  • Experience with schematic integrity checking analysis with Mentor Valydate or equivalent
  • Analysis including derating, reliability, and FMECA
  • Designing with Military and Space Grade Components and Operating Environments
  • Commercial/Defense 3U/6U VPX (VITA46, VITA65)
  • Experienced in developing for military electrical standards and environments, including designing to meet to MIL-STD-704F, 1275, 461G, 1399, DO-160G.
  • Experience in power supply design and EMI compliance (CE EMI and MIL-STD-461G)
  • Design with Radiation Tolerant Grade Components and Operating Environments
  • Design for Reliability (DFR), Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Cost (DFC)


Location:



  • This position is hybrid at our Huntsville, AL location
  • Enjoy every other Friday off with our 9/80 work schedule!






Fulltime Equivalent Job Grade Range for this Position:
* $115,700.00 - $208,300.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in FL, GA, IN, AZ, AL, MD or TX, and all remote employees
* $129,600.00 - $233,300.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in VA, CA, NH or MA
* $136,500.00 - $245,800.00 annual salary for in-office or hybrid employees in NJ
Additional Information

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:



* the role and related responsibilities;

* prior work experience;

* education, training, skills and certifications;

* internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;

* geographic location; and

* alignment with market data.


In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including:


* bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);

* health, life and disability insurance;

* company-paid holidays and time off;

* 401(k) retirement plan;

* discounted employee stock purchase plan;

* tuition reimbursement; and

* access to professional development and personal wellness platforms including LinkedIn Learning, Headspace, Aaptiv and Virgin Pulse.


Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards.


Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)
Why Mercury?
Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com


Our Culture


We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.


To find out more about Why Mercury?, or visit the Mercury Community or find answers to general questions at Mercury FAQs


Mercury Systems is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran or marital status.


As an equal opportunity employer, Mercury Systems is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact the number below for assistance.


(978) 256-1300


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