Electrical Engineer

Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, DHPC, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way.

Candidate Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• This position is specifically for a Hardware in the Loop lab that runs real-time simulations, currently in a MATLAB/Simulink environment using xPc Target, with a need to migrate the current architecture to real-time Red Hawk Linux
• Provide expertise in electrical engineering best practices and hardware integration efforts
• Knowledgeable in various aspects of software control schemes for motion systems and real-time simulations
• Ability to quickly learn new hardware system functionality and corresponding controls software creation

Required Skills

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 1 year with PhD
• Significant relevant experience will be considered in lieu of formal education 
• Active Secret Clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI
• US Citizenship is required
• Background in electrical and computer engineering with an emphasis on controls software
• Real Time simulation software and hardware environments understanding
• Experience building and testing electrical sub-systems for analog and digital I/O applications, with a focus on real-time simulation environments
• Ability to integrate various camera types into a larger simulation environment using USB, SERIAL, TCP/IP, and other relevant communications protocol standards
• Experience in integrating hardware built by different vendors and utilizing SDK’s and other operating guides for integration into the main simulation GUI
• Knowledgeable in standard laboratory devices such as power supplies, oscilloscopes, waveform generators, and signal I/O devices
• Familiar with MATLAB, SIMULINK, C/C++/C#, or Python for software/hardware integration and image processing
• Familiar with WPF, APP DESIGNER/GUIDE, or PyQt for GUI development
• Familiar with ETHERCAT protocol
• Proficient in writing technical documentation in MS word and PowerPoint
• Ability to be onsite five days a week

Desired Skills

• Experience with Thorlabs and FLIR cameras
• Expertise with SBIR MIRAGE and other image projection systems
• Expertise with real time simulation environments
• Expertise with motion table software controls
• Expertise using camera SDK’s, API’s, and other dev kits to create custom software
• TS/SCI clearance

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