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Principal Electronics Engineer

**Overview: We are seeking a talented Principal Electronics Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing electronic systems and components.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF JOB DUTIES:

• Lead the development of Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) systems.
• Develop product requirements and architectures for new APNT systems.
• Present product design solutions to customers at technical design reviews.
• Electrical design of FPGA, board and system-level hardware. Support PWB layout activities.
• Create system, sub-system, interface and protocol specifications from external and internal requirements.
• Support the creation of production and engineering test plans, test cases, and test procedures.
• Supervise product integration, verification and validation testing.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

The applicant MUST have the following qualifications:

• BSEE with 10 or more years of experience in the design and development of electronic systems.
• Experience in the design and development of precise time and frequency reference systems
• Design experience using atomic clocks, quartz clocks (TCXO), and oven-controlled crystal oscillators (OCXO)
• Knowledge of oscillator disciplining techniques, as well as precision and holdover timing algorithms.
• Knowledge of GNSS and military GPS navigation systems including system design and development experience using embedded GPS/GNSS receivers.
• Experience leading engineering development teams.
• Strong understanding of digital design principles with experience in the design of embedded microprocessor systems .
• Systems engineering experience working with internal and external customers to develop hardware and software requirements and solutions for new products.
• FPGA design experience using a hardware description language (VHDL).
• RF, low noise and electronic filter design experience.
• Schematic capture experience using Altium and/or PADS Logic.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Additional Desirable Experience:

Network design experience including Ethernet and Precision Time Protocol (PTP).

Development of time code electronics (AC/ DC IRIG, BCD, HaveQuick, NTP and IEEE 1588 PTP Time Protocols).

Disciplining algorithm and Kalman Filter design experience.

Experience performing digital circuit signal integrity analysis.

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