Principal Electrical Engineer (7906)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Principal Electrical Design Engineer is an established and experienced lead engineer on a team of outstanding engineers that research, develop, design, test, and transfer to manufacture our next generation of high-reliability opto-electronic network elements. The primary job activity provides novel high reliability and fault tolerant circuit designs, including analog and digital circuits that may involve microcontrollers and FPGAs, as well as other electro-optic components like photo diodes, modulators, EDFAs, VOAs and lasers. The role involves high level planning, platforming, and innovation across multiple network elements, as well as the development of product, system and firmware requirements. The role reports to the Director of Network Element Electrical Design.

Responsibilities

The role is responsible for all electrical design activities from concept to manufacture needed to achieve established project goals and timelines for the development of a portfolio of new Terminal or Undersea Network elements. The position requires leadership in managing and improving development processes including organized design and DFMEA reviews. The role will work with electrical, optical, firmware, reliability and other mechanical engineers and vendors and at times lead and mentor less experienced teams, engineers, and technicians.

- Participates in developing and approving product and system requirements documents.

- Conducts analog and digital circuit design and simulation.

- Selects suitable electrical circuit components and helps maintain component libraries.

- Interacts with key component suppliers, distributors, and application engineers.

- Collaborates with PCBA CAD designers to generate PCBA design files.

- Leads and participates in design and requirement reviews.

- Plans, documents, and executes the design verification testing for new products.

- Leads hands-on experimental work on prototype components, circuits, and assemblies.

- Develops GUI based test software tools for testing circuit boards and components.

- Provides firmware requirements and supports integration testing of firmware on new circuit assemblies.

- Delivers factory testing requirements and supports early factory testing efforts.

- Initiates and develops relationships with internal partners and external suppliers.

- Consistently ensures that business is always conducted with integrity and behaviors that align with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values.