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# Lead Principal Engineer

- **Company:** AthenPollo
- **Location:** Braddock, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Configuration Management, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), LTspice, Mathcad, OrCAD, Requirements Traceability, Signal Integrity, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Integration, Pspice, Mentor Graphics, Pcb Layout
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75690708-lead-principal-engineer

## About the Role

Skills and Certifications [note: bold skills and certification are required]:

 * Expert level experience in Electrical/Electronic architecture.
 * Expert level experience with FPGAs..

Required Experience:

 * Extensive experience designing, integrating, and troubleshooting complex electronic systems involving analog, digital, power-electronics, and mechanical interfaces, with deep technical expertise in one or more of these areas.
 * Demonstrated ability to make, communicate, and defend system- and hardware-architecture decisions.
 * Experience with high-performance embedded processors, FPGA or SoC based systems, memory technologies, and high-speed digital interfaces; experience with serial interfaces operating at 5 Gbps or greater is preferred.
 * Experience with DC/DC and DC/AC power conversion, power distribution, and power-system design.
 * Proficiency developing and reviewing schematics, PCB layouts, bills of material, interface documentation, and design-analysis artifacts.
 * Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, shielding, electromagnetic compatibility, component derating, and electronic reliability.
 * Experience with mixed-signal circuit design; high-frequency magnetics experience is preferred.
 * Hands-on proficiency using oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, logic analyzers, probes, and related laboratory equipment.
 * Experience integrating and testing electronic assemblies within complex mechanical systems or constrained mechanical environments.
 * Familiarity with Siemens EDA/Mentor Graphics, OrCAD, PSpice, LTspice, Mathcad, or equivalent schematic-capture, simulation, and analysis tools.
 * Experience supporting products through development, qualification, production, sustainment, failure investigation, and corrective action.
 * Strong technical judgment, analytical ability, and written and verbal communication skills.
 * Ability to work across multiple programs and disciplines while maintaining technical quality and execution commitments.
 * Experience developing electronic systems for undersea, naval, defense, aerospace, or other high-reliability applications.
 * Familiarity with DoD systems-engineering, cybersecurity, qualification, and configuration-management practices.
 * Experience with technical baselines, requirements traceability, verification planning, production readiness, obsolescence management, technology insertion, and design certification.
 * Familiarity with Earned Value Management and Control Account Management principles is a plus.

## Description

* As the Lead Principal Engineer supporting the company's MK48 program, you will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electronic systems. You will define, develop, and evaluate system and hardware architectures; ensure compliance with technical requirements; resolve challenging engineering problems; and guide multidisciplinary teams through design, integration, verification, qualification, production, and sustainment. This role combines system-level architectural ownership with hands-on technical engagement in design reviews, laboratory investigations, integration activities, and technical problem resolution.
 * Define, develop, and evaluate system and hardware architectures incorporating digital, analog, power-electronics, and mechanical elements.
 * Translate system requirements into clear, robust hardware requirements, interfaces, and design solutions.
 * Provide technical leadership for complex circuit design, modeling, simulation, integration, verification, and qualification activities; contribute directly to technical investigations as needed.
 * Ensure designs satisfy performance, reliability, cybersecurity, producibility, cost, schedule, and lifecycle objectives.
 * Provide technical direction to digital, analog, power-electronics, mechanical, software, and test engineers.
 * Serve as a technical mentor and independent reviewer, promoting sound engineering practices and disciplined technical decision-making.
 * Lead design reviews, architecture assessments, failure reviews, trade studies, and technical investigations.
 * Identify technical risks; assess their performance, cost, schedule, and program impacts; and develop effective mitigation strategies.
 * Perform root-cause analysis of development, production, and fielded-system issues; develop and implement corrective actions and design improvements based on test results, failure data, and engineering analysis.
 * Evaluate embedded processors, systems-on-chip, FPGAs, memory devices, high-speed digital interfaces, and other emerging technologies for current and future applications.
 * Support product roadmaps, technology-insertion strategies, technical proposals, and future capability development.
 * Identify practical opportunities to apply artificial intelligence to engineering analysis, automation, and continuous improvement.
 * Communicate technical findings, recommendations, risks, and decisions to engineering leadership, program teams, customers, and suppliers.