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Hardware Optics and Sensors Engineer

Sterling Heights, MI 48310

Posted: 01/22/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Electrical Engineer Job Number: 42810 Pay Rate: 65.00

Job Description

Position Description:

This position will consist of providing Electrical Engineering Design and Integration services for a variety of Electro-Optic products used on and in tracked and wheeled military vehicles. This will involve concept development, design, Design Verification Testing (DVT), Procurement support, Prototype build and test, Qualification testing, Fielding, and customer support of fielded hardware. Hardware involved includes but is not limited to the following: Gunner’s and Commander’s fixed and panoramic sights, Auxiliary Sights, Control Panels, Control handles, various vision systems resolvers, encoders, Gyros, accelerometers, Meteorological sensors, and a variety or Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs).

Some specific activities that will be performed as part of this position are as follows:
  • Design subsystems and components to meet vehicle performance requirements including human factors, safety, environmental requirements.
  • Support Circuit Design, Conduct component selection/analysis for commercial, military Electro-Optical system components, conduct detailed design of Electro-Optical custom components and also generate key characteristics, component specifications and perform component selection for supplier purchased parts.
  • Review and develop H/W and S/W requirement documents and test plans.
  • Provide support to prototype and production vehicle build and follow-up, develop technical corrective action formulation, troubleshooting and lead redesign activities.
  • Strong record keeping skills with commitment to tracking design changes, debug status, H/W and S/W revisions.
  • Develop and Present design concepts and program status to functional and program management.
  • Perform testing and evaluation of Electro-Optical components in the Electro-Optics Lab
 
Position Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 3 years of applicable experience. Fewer years will be considered with an advanced degree.
  • Ability to use Engineering Development and Test Tools.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Strong multi-tasking skills
  • Ability to travel to supplier and government sites ( Approx 5%)
Knowledge in many, but not all, of the following areas desired:
  •  IPC and MIL standards
  •  Digital and Analog circuit design
  •  Gyroscopes, Encoders, and Cameras
  • Development of component/subsystem requirements
  • Model-based Motion Control
  • Model-based Motion Control Loops
  • PWM and PID
  • Test Equipment (Power Supplies, Oscilloscopes, Function Generators, DACs)
  • Power, thermal analysis, timing, biasing, voltage and current control, LED control, data packet deciphering, etc. 
  • Schematic development, component selection, circuit simulation, and PCB layout
  • Engineering design, development, and analysis software
  • Desired: MATLAB, MATHCAD, Mentor Graphics Schematic Capture, CAMView or CAM350        
  • Microprocessor based products including processors, chipsets, memory and bus interfaces, networking standards (PCI-xpress, DDR2, DDR3, USB, SATA, DVI, etc...)
  • Microcontrollers including IDEs, configuration, coding, and programming.
  • Desired: NXP family of microcontrollers
  • Industry interface standards and form factors (VITA42/46, COM Express, ETX, etc ...)
  • Serial Interconnects, USB, CAN, RS422/485, etc.)
  • Graphics/video interfaces (SDI, DVI, HDMI, RS-170, etc.)
  • EMI/EMC design practices and standards.
  • C, C#, VisualStudio Suite
  • Optical hardware and testing

 

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John Sabbagh
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John Sabbagh has over 10 years of recruiting experience. Starting his career as an Entry Level Recruiter at Panther, our candidates find him genuine and great resource to their career search!

Fun Fact: John is a sports fanatic, he plays in horseshoe and cornhole leagues and loves fantasy football.

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