Lead Principal Engineer

Lead Principal Engineer
Location: Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Flexible work from home days
This largely an on-site role...there is some flexibility but not to the tune of 1-2 days/week.
Security Clearance: DoD Secret preferred; must be obtainable within a reasonable period after hire
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizenship Required
The Lead Principal Engineer supporting the MK48 program will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electronic systems. This role provides system- and hardware-level architectural leadership across the full product lifecycle, including design, integration, verification, qualification, production, and sustainment.
The engineer will define and evaluate architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical technologies; translate system requirements into hardware requirements and interfaces; lead technical investigations; and provide direction to multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role is highly hands-on and requires expert-level electrical/electronic architecture and FPGA experience.
Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and evaluate complex system and hardware architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical elements.
• Translate system requirements into hardware requirements, interfaces, and robust design solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for circuit design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and qualification.
• Provide technical direction to digital, analog, power-electronics, mechanical, software, and test engineers.
• Lead design reviews, architecture assessments, failure reviews, trade studies, and technical investigations.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies addressing performance, cost, schedule, and program impacts.
• Perform root-cause analysis for development, production, and fielded-system issues and implement corrective actions.
• Evaluate embedded processors, SoCs, FPGAs, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces.
• Support product roadmaps, technology insertion, technical proposals, and future capability development.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI to engineering analysis, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, cybersecurity, producibility, cost, schedule, and lifecycle objectives.
• Review schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and design-analysis artifacts.
• Support hardware builds, laboratory investigations, integration, qualification, production readiness, and sustainment.
• Communicate technical findings, recommendations, risks, and decisions to leadership, customers, suppliers, and program teams.
• Mentor engineers and serve as an independent technical reviewer.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related STEM field with 10+ years of job-related experience, OR Master's degree with 8+ years of job-related experience.
• Expert-level experience in Electrical/Electronic Architecture.
• Expert-level experience with FPGAs.
• Extensive experience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting complex electronic systems.
• Experience across analog, digital, power-electronics, and mechanical interfaces, with deep expertise in one or more areas.
• Demonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend system/hardware architecture decisions.
• Experience with embedded processors, FPGA/SoC-based systems, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces.
• Experience with DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion, power distribution, and power-system design.
• Proficiency reviewing schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, interface documentation, and engineering analyses.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, EMC, component derating, and electronic reliability.
• Experience with mixed-signal circuit design.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, probes, and related laboratory equipment.
• Experience integrating and testing electronic assemblies within complex mechanical systems.
• Experience supporting products through development, qualification, production, sustainment, failure investigation, and corrective action.
• Strong technical judgment, analytical skills, and written/verbal communication.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance within a reasonable period after hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret or higher security clearance.
• Experience with serial interfaces operating at 5 Gbps or greater.
• High-frequency magnetics experience.
• Experience with Siemens EDA/Mentor Graphics, OrCAD, PSpice, LTspice, Mathcad, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with undersea, naval, defense, aerospace, or other high-reliability electronic systems.
• Familiarity with DoD systems engineering, cybersecurity, qualification, and configuration-management practices.
• Experience with technical baselines, requirements traceability, verification planning, production readiness, obsolescence management, technology insertion, and design certification.
• Earned Value Management and Control Account Management experience.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience with technology development programs, cost estimation, and schedule management.