About the Role
This engineer will own interconnect documentation, wiring architecture, cable design, traceability, configuration management, and power distribution activities throughout the product lifecycle. The position requires strong aerospace hardware knowledge and experience working with industry standards governing wiring, harnessing, EMC, and military systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain electrical interconnect documentation and wiring system architecture.
- Create and manage interconnection matrices, cable schedules, harness drawings, and BOMs.
- Perform full-system cable tracing and documentation traceability to system requirements.
- Design custom cable assemblies and wiring harness solutions for aerospace systems.
- Select connectors, shielding techniques, cable types, and termination methods.
- Support EMI/EMC compliance activities in accordance with MIL-STD-461 and related standards.
- Conduct power budgeting, load analysis, thermal derating, and power distribution assessments.
- Coordinate with electrical, mechanical, firmware, systems, and integration teams.
- Manage engineering changes, revision control, and product configuration management.
- Perform engineering risk analysis related to interconnect failures, thermal overload, ESD susceptibility, and signal integrity.
- Support product development, integration, qualification, verification, and testing efforts.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Minimum 5 years of Electrical or Mechanical Engineering experience in aerospace or defense environments.
- Strong understanding of aerospace hardware systems.
- Experience with electrical schematics, system integration, qualification, and testing.
- Experience with interconnect documentation and cable/harness engineering.
- Knowledge of IPC/WHMA-A-620 standards.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-461 EMC/EMI requirements.
- Experience supporting configuration control and traceability requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Zuken E3.
- Experience supporting military aircraft, missiles, weapon systems, avionics, or aerospace platforms.
- Experience with power distribution and power system analysis.
- Knowledge of MIL-STD-1513 interconnect documentation.
- Experience developing 3D harness routing and cable layouts.
- Familiarity with ETAP, SKM, or similar power analysis tools.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers.
