Hardware Engineer, Mid

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YOUR CANDIDATE JOURNEY Discover what to expect during your journey as a candidate with us. Hardware Engineer, Mid Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big‑picture thinking to make a meaningful impact on national security space missions? You understand your customer’s environment and how to develop the right systems for their mission.

Your ability to translate real‑world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer‑focused engineering solution. On our team you will work with Booz Allen colleagues, other support contractors, and U.S. Space Force and Air Force personnel to develop and deploy the next generation of strategic military satellite communications capabilities.

You will be an integral part of the program team, assisting the government as an Avionics Hardware Engineer to ensure the Application‑Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and receiver card are integrated successfully to meet user needs. You will provide independent technical assessment of contractor hardware designs across the program lifecycle, develop, review, and refine government hardware requirements and verification approaches, and represent the government as a technical lead in vendor and Integrated Program Team (IPT) working groups. You will capture risks and surface them through the program’s risk‑management process, brief findings and recommendations to senior government leadership, and provide direct support to the Lead Systems Engineer while managing the integration of requirements into the baseline of the program.

Your expertise and innovative thinking will be critical to ensuring capabilities are delivered to meet the threat. This position is located in El Segundo, CA and may require travel within the U.S. when necessary to accommodate client needs. Qualifications 7+ years of experience with hardware engineering Experience reviewing avionics hardware designs at PDR, CDR, and TRR milestones, including schematics, PCB layouts, and parts selection rationale Experience authoring or evaluating hardware requirements specifications, ICDs, and verification matrices traceable to system‑level requirements Experience in requirements document development, such as TRD Experience with risk processes and risk management Ability to coordinate across IPTs and component vendors to resolve technical issues without direct authority, interact well in cross‑functional team meetings, and work collaboratively and independently demonstrating initiative to complete complex tasks Ability to travel up to 10% Secret clearance Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering Nice if you have 10+ years of experience with avionics hardware engineering supporting DoD programs Experience supporting Air Force, Space Force, or other DoD programs Experience with VHDL/Verilog, embedded C, or board bring‑up and debug Experience with aviation GPS receiver cards Experience with ASICs, FPGAs Experience working with new technology programs for embedded systems Experience in obsolescence management, supply chain risk, or trusted microelectronics Knowledge of DO‑254 design assurance or equivalent airworthiness and safety‑of‑flight processes Knowledge of a variety of electronics environments, such as salt fog, EMI/EMC, and shock and vibration qualification Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline Clearance Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation Salary range: $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD). In addition, Booz Allen offers health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work‑life programs, and dependent care. Work Model Remote: if this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

Hybrid: if this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, and you may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility. Onsite: if this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility. Commitment to Non‑Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law. #J-18808-Ljbffr