Associate Digital Design Engineer

Delivering mission-critical, electronic solutions that protect lives. Use your creativity and critical thinking to take our products from concept to customer.

At CAES, we engineer solutions for the world’s most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets.

Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU. Consider CAES.

The most important thing we build is TRUST

This is an OUSTANDING opportunity for a new graduate or early career Engineer to learn from a technically deep team! The CAES Advanced Program Development (APD) line of business is seeking a highly motivated Associate Engineer for new product development and product improvement projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This includes design, analysis, and all aspects of project engineering work.

Our team succeeds in an open area work environment, promoting free and innovative thinking while capitalizing on personal and professional growth for everyone. We embrace cross training across multiple disciplines, generating meaningful development opportunities for our team to expand their knowledge and expertise.

• Design, simulate, integrate, and test digital functions and sub-systems into CAES' products.
• Write embedded software for microcontrollers.
• Write VHDL for FPGA designs.
• Design digital hardware to interface with real-time and closed-loop subsystems to meet operationally relevant system goals.
• Learn and use engineering tools for new product development.
• Develop microcontroller and FPGA designs for multi-board control applications.
• Design and create communication interfaces between equipment and the user.
• Design custom printed circuit boards

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 0 to 2 years' experience in Engineering in high-tech R&D and/or manufacturing companies.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a “US Person” under US export laws (or eligible for approval under a U.S. Government export license).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred:

• 2 to 4 years' experience in Engineering in high-tech R&D and/or manufacturing companies.
• Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Work experience in electronic product design and development.
• Work within a multi-discipline engineering team to achieve program goals.
• Experience with prototype assembly, turn-on, and debug in a laboratory environment.
• Experience taking a design from concept to production, including characterization of designs.
• Knowledge of high-speed digital and/or analog design.
• Proficiency with Altium or Siemens Xpedition tool set.
• Familiarity with electronic lab equipment and using them to perform characterization and troubleshooting (meters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, frequency counters, etc)

Salary Range: $80,000-$100,000 annually. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as business results.

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EMPLOYMENT TRANSPARENCY

BENEFITS

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You’ll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond.

CAES APD provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays, sick leave, and vacation.

ABOUT CAES

CAES is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

At CAES we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email CAEScareers@caes.com.