Lead Electrical Engineer (Defense Electronics) – Cincinnati, OH

Lead Electrical Engineer (Defense & Aerospace Electronics)

📍 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
🕒 Schedule: 4/10 Work Week (Four 10-Hour Days)
💼 Employment Type: Full-Time
💰 Base Salary: $142,000 – $161,000
🚚 Relocation Assistance: Available for Ideal Candidates
✈️ Travel: Occasional
🔒 Security Clearance: Must be Eligible to Obtain Secret Clearance
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not Available

Overview

A leading defense and aerospace organization is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to support the design and development of ruggedized electronic systems for advanced ordnance and mission-critical applications.

This role combines hands-on electrical design with technical leadership responsibilities, including product development, testing, root cause investigations, customer interaction, proposal support, and mentoring engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in analog and digital circuit design, power electronics, testing, and product lifecycle development within highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

Electrical Design & Development

• Design analog and digital electronics for ruggedized defense applications.

• Perform circuit analysis, simulations, and tolerance studies using SPICE and engineering calculations.

• Develop and refine technical requirements and ensure compliance.

• Generate schematics, engineering documentation, and change proposals.

• Support product development from concept through qualification and production.

Testing & Validation

• Develop test plans and test reports for:

• Design Verification

• Qualification Testing

• Product Performance Testing

• Firing Properties Testing

• Lead testing activities throughout the product lifecycle.

• Troubleshoot hardware using oscilloscopes, function generators, meters, and lab equipment.

Technical Leadership

• Lead design reviews throughout all development phases.

• Serve as primary technical interface for internal and external customers.

• Lead root cause investigations using structured methodologies:

• 8D

• Fishbone Analysis

• Cause & Effect Analysis

• Provide technical input for proposals, labor estimates, and project planning.

• Mentor and develop junior electrical engineers.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Experience

• 9+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience.

• 5+ years designing analog circuits including:

• Operational Amplifiers

• Differential Amplifiers

• Filters

• LDOs

• Data Converters

• 5+ years designing digital circuits including:

• Logic Gates

• Flip-Flops

• Timers

• Digital Filters

• 4+ years working with power conversion systems:

• AC/DC

• DC/DC

• DC/AC

• Linear & Switching Power Supplies

• 5+ years troubleshooting electronic systems using laboratory equipment.

• 4+ years using schematic capture and PCB design tools such as:

• Altium

• PADS

• 4+ years leading technical projects from concept through completion.

• 4+ years creating engineering documentation and participating in design reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with:

• MEMS Accelerometers

• Temperature Sensors

• Pressure Sensors

• Gyroscopes

• Serial communication protocols:

• UART

• SPI

• I2C

• Root Cause Analysis methodologies.

• EMI, ESD, and protection circuit design.

• Power conditioning and power supply design.

• Design for extreme environments:

• Shock

• Vibration

• Temperature

• Humidity

• Experience with Electronic Safety & Arming Devices (ESADs).

• Experience working to MIL-STD-1316 and MIL-STD-1901A standards.

• Experience presenting designs to military safety review boards.

• Energetic materials testing and integration experience.

Key Skills

✔ Analog Circuit Design
✔ Digital Circuit Design
✔ Power Electronics
✔ PCB Design (Altium, PADS)
✔ SPICE Simulation
✔ Root Cause Analysis
✔ Test & Validation Engineering
✔ Technical Leadership
✔ Requirements Development
✔ Defense Electronics

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior electrical engineer with experience designing ruggedized electronics for aerospace, defense, ordnance, or other high-reliability applications. They should possess strong technical leadership skills, experience leading development programs, and the ability to guide projects from concept through qualification and production.

Candidate Snapshot

Requirement

Details

Experience

9+ Years

Seniority

Mid-Senior

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Industry

Aerospace / Defense

Leadership

Technical Lead

Security Clearance

Eligible for Secret Clearance

Travel

Occasional

Relocation

Available

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Four-day work week (4/10 schedule).

• Lead cutting-edge defense and aerospace electronics programs.

• High visibility technical leadership role.

• Opportunity to mentor engineers and influence product strategy.

• Work on mission-critical systems supporting national defense applications.

Staff Hardware Engineer - USA, Lowell MA (Hybrid) - $95,000 - $118,000

Staff Hardware Engineer

USA, Lowell MA (Hybrid)

$95,000 - $118,000

Job Description

How You'll Help Us Connect The World:

We are an engineering team that designs and delivers ground-breaking communication products. As a member of our Passive Optical Networks' Hardware Engineering team, you will be instrumental in delivering PON products to market. You will work within a multi-disciplined hardware engineering team to develop, test, and support hardware solutions from concept to production and beyond. This role works on digital circuit design, schematic development, hardware design verification, and support of product testing and debug in a lab environment with test equipment like oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and traffic generators. Using your strong written and oral communication skills, you will generate test reports for validation of the product. You will also support product integration into the factory, from prototype to production, working with multi-functional team members like Manufacturing Test, Supply Chain, and Customer Support.

Required Qualifications for Consideration:

·        Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar field

·        Minimum 5 years of expertise in Hardware Design

You will excite us if you have:

·        Master’s Degree in a relevant field

·        Knowledge or experience with schematic tools (Mentor or Cadence)

·        Knowledge of Communications standards a plus

·        Understanding of Photonics and Optics

·        Experience with embedded systems and communications protocols/interfaces like I2C, SPI, MDIO, UART, USB

·        Strong lab debug & new product development experience

Perks & Benefits:

The candidate will be rewarded with a competitive benefits package, including paid vacation, medical, dental, and vision plans, life and accidental death insurance, a 401(k) plan and participation in the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan.

Our dynamic work environment attracts forward-thinking, hardworking, and caring people who strive to build what’s next. We provide our employees with opportunities where they can innovate and build while growing and developing their careers. We grow with change and know the value diversity plays in bringing forth new insights and generating better solutions. Here, you will find a collaborative culture that encourages authenticity and champions inclusiveness. Come connect to your future.

Senior Staff Hardware Engineer - USA, Lowell MA (Hybrid) - $110,000 - $140,000

Senior Staff Hardware Engineer

USA, Lowell MA (Hybrid)

$110,000 - $140,000

Job Description

How You'll Help Us Connect the World:

We are an engineering team that designs and delivers groundbreaking communication products. As a member of our Passive Optical Networks' Hardware Engineering team, you will be instrumental in delivering PON products to market. You will work within a multi-disciplined hardware engineering team to develop, test, and support hardware solutions from concept to production and beyond. We will look to you to perform digital board design and work with multi-functional team members (Mechanical, Software, Manufacturing Test, Supply Chain, Marketing, Customer Support) to deliver quality new products, as well as support existing products. This role consists of circuit design and schematic development, coordinating PCB layout, hardware design verification, and hardware debug and testing in a lab environment. You will also support integrating the product into the factory, from prototype to production, as well as assist with customer field issues, as it relates to hardware development.

Required Qualifications for Consideration:

·        Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar field

·        Minimum 8 years of expertise in board level hardware design

·        Knowledge or experience with schematics tools (Mentor or Cadence).

You will excite us if you have:

·        Master’s Degree in a relevant field

·        Knowledge of PON protocols and Communications standards a plus

·        High speed digital design

·        Experience with embedded systems and communications protocols/interfaces like I2C, SPI, MDIO, UART, USB

·        Strong lab debug & new product development experience with expertise in resolving customer hardware product issues.

Perks & Benefits:

The candidate will be rewarded with a competitive benefits package, including paid vacation, medical, dental, and vision plans, life and accidental death insurance, a 401(k) plan and participation in the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan.

Our dynamic work environment attracts forward-thinking, hardworking, and caring people who strive to build what’s next. We provide our employees with opportunities where they can innovate and build while growing and developing their careers. We grow with change and know the value diversity plays in bringing forth new insights and generating better solutions. Here, you will find a collaborative culture that encourages authenticity and champions inclusiveness. Come connect to your future!