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Mercury Systems is seeking the best and brightest engineering talent to help us deliver cuttingedge technology for missioncritical aerospace and defense applications, advancing innovation where it matters most.

In this role, our team is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer - Hardware/Board Design who will take ownership of complex digital boardlevel development for rugged, highreliability embedded hardware used across Space, Air, Land, and Sea domains. You will lead the design and verification of advanced hardware including secure processing systems, FPGAbased signalprocessing architectures, DRFM devices, display technologies, and electronics engineered for extreme environments. This role also provides technical leadership through mentoring junior engineers, guiding small projects, and influencing hardware architecture decisions. Working within Mercury's Integrator Mindset, you will collaborate across sites and disciplines to deliver boardlevel solutions that directly support national security.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead board-level design, development, and verification of complex digital circuits, modules, and systems from concept through production
• Take ownership of sophisticated embedded digital hardware including compute modules, signal processing systems, secure storage, DRFM devices, and IO interface modules
• Design with cutting-edge technology including 100G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen 3/4, DDR4/5 SDRAM, fiber optics, HD-SDI, LVDS from Intel, Xilinx, Altera, NVIDIA, Broadcom, TI
• Drive design quality through comprehensive analysis, peer reviews, and verification practices
• Lead board bring-up, debug, test, and verification activities while collaborating with CAD/SI teams
• Work closely with manufacturing to improve board manufacturability (DFM/DFA/DFT) and resolve build issues
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior hardware engineers (EE I-II) and lead small projects

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
• Typically requires a minimum of 4 years of electrical engineering product development experience in board-level hardware design from concept to production
• Experience architecting and designing complex embedded digital hardware from concept to completion
• Proficiency with highspeed digital interfaces such as FPGAs, PCIe, SATA, I2C, ARINC429, Ethernet, and HDSDI
• Strong understanding of highspeed digital signalintegrity principles for boardlevel design
• Experience developing detailed design specifications, test plans, verification strategies, and design documentation
• Experience leading engineering tasks or small projects and mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative environment

This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government

• Experience designing with Intel (Xilinx) or AMD (Altera) FPGAs, particularly Agilex or Versal families
• Experience developing highspeed board interfaces such as 100G/200G Ethernet, PCIe Gen4/Gen5, or DDR4/DDR5 memory systems
• Experience designing networkinterface hardware using devices from Mellanox, Broadcom, Marvell, or Intel CPU architectures with BIOS firmware integration
• Background working with 3U/6U VPX (VITA 46/65), COM Express, or SoMbased embedded architectures for defense/aerospace systems
• Knowledge of military standards such as MILSTD704F, MILSTD1275, MILSTD461G, MILSTD1399, and DO160G, with experience developing ruggedized electronics to these requirements
• Experience with video processing, HDSDI, display systems, secure computing, antitamper features, encryption technologies, or DRFMbased designs
• Experience supporting spaceapplication electronics or working with radiationtolerant components
• Proficiency using Cadence Allegro for CAD/SI layout, routing, and highspeed simulation
• Experience with DFR, DFM, DFC, and DFT methodologies for highreliability board design
• Experience supporting powersupply design, power integrity, and EMI compliance including CE EMI and MILSTD461G
• Familiarity with requirementstraceability or collaboration tools such as JAMA, DOORS, JIRA, or Confluence#LI-RJ1

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Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

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We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

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As an equal opportunity employer, Mercury Systems is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact the number below for assistance.

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