We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Summary:
As the lead electrical engineer on your projects, you'll work within multi-disciplinary teams to architect and develop electronic systems for customers across a wide variety of markets. You'll own the electrical scope from concept through delivery — making the architecture decisions, doing the design work yourself, and serving as the technical point of contact your customer talks to. You'll guide the other electrical engineers contributing to your projects, review their work, and mentor junior team members as they grow. You'll also support the sales team as we bid and quote incoming work, where your architecture concepts and estimates help us win the projects worth having.
How you will spend your time:
Design and Leadership
You'll spend most of your time designing electrical system architectures, block diagrams, power trees and budgets, electrical interface control documents, schematics, and PCB layouts. You'll get your hands dirty and own your designs from start to finish, involving other team members as appropriate to ensure that our designs are successful. That ownership runs through circuit design and capture, PCB layout, design reviews, prototype build, board bring-up and test, debug, integration, and verification, and it ends with the design documentation package.
You'll lead technical design reviews on a regular basis, and you'll review other engineers' schematics and layouts with the same rigor you apply to your own. You'll also be your customer's technical point of contact — giving status and presenting designs. This will occasionally include travel to customer sites for kickoffs or deliveries.
Who You Are
You've been doing this long enough to have taken multiple electronic products from a blank schematic sheet to hardware that shipped and worked. You have a knack for picking up new skills and technologies quickly, and you seek out new challenges rather than waiting for them. You love to own your designs from cradle to grave, and you're deeply invested in making sure your work meets the expectations of your peers and your customers. You're comfortable making architecture decisions under ambiguity, and comfortable revisiting them when something changes. You hold other people's designs to the standard you hold your own, and you can say "this isn't ready yet" in a way that makes the design better and the engineer stronger. You have outstanding attention to detail. You communicate credibly with customers, including when the news isn't what they hoped for.
Above all, people refer to you as an outstanding team member that they enjoy working with.
Minimum Qualifications:
Deep, Hands-on Experience
- Electrical system architecture, including architecture trades, system-level design, electrical block diagrams, power trees and budgets, and electrical interface control documents (EICDs)
- Digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuit design
- Linear and switch-mode DC/DC power conversion design
- Integration of microcontrollers, processors, and/or FPGAs, board-level communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232/422/485, CAN), USB, Ethernet, and analog and sensor interfaces
- Schematic capture and design data management in Altium Designer 24 or later, including library management, multi-sheet hierarchical schematics, and generation of fabrication and assembly outputs
- PCB layout design, including stack-up definition, component placement, routing and escape strategy, power distribution, thermal management, and design for manufacturability
- Prototype development, board bring-up, test, and debug in a lab environment using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, network analyzers, and similar equipment
- Design documentation, including test plans, procedures and reports, and ECOs
- Controlled impedance design for high-speed channels
- Cable and wire harness design
- Signal and power integrity (SI/PI) design and analysis
- Design for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
- Technical Leadership and Customer Engagement
- Successful history of leading technical teams and mentoring junior engineers on hardware development efforts
- Leadership of technical design reviews, including review of other engineers' schematics and PCB layouts
- Direct customer engagement as a technical point of contact, including project kickoffs, status updates, design reviews, and deliveries
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from an accredited technical college or university in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 7+ years of experience.
Location: Fully Remote
Salary Range: $115K - $150K
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 7+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience
- Design and layout experience with microcontrollers, processors, and FPGAs in embedded systems
- Experience with controlled impedance, high-speed channel design or RF technologies (10GbE, 802.11, SerDes, PCIe)
- Experience with communications interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-485, USB, SDIO, CAN, MIL-STD-1553, LVDS)
- Knowledge of DC/DC converters and topologies
- EMI/EMC and signal integrity analysis experience
- Analog and sensor interface design experience
- Lab troubleshooting and debug experience of PCB assemblies using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, network and spectrum analyzers
- Must be a US Person (citizen or permanent resident)
- Ability to pass pre-employment drug screening
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
