Job Title: Electrical Engineer (Journeyman )
Duration: FTE
Location: Dayton, OH

Job description 
As a Journeyman Electrical Engineer, you’ll join the cross?functional team turning Phalanx Griffon (PG) from digital design into flight?ready hardware for Major Release 2 (FY 25?27). You’ll focus on power distribution, wiring harnesses, interface?control documentation, and EMI/EMC compliance for the Nomad open?architecture chassis—supporting lab builds, environmental tests, and aircraft installation.

Essential Job Functions:
Hardware Integration & Schematics

• Develop and update wiring diagrams, pin?outs, and cable assemblies for Nomad processing cards, crypto devices, and SATCOM interfaces.
• Calculate load analyses and circuit protection to meet platform SWaP?C and MIL?STD?704/1275 power?quality requirements.

Lab & Bench Support

• Assemble and troubleshoot PG line?replaceable units in the Integration SIL; perform continuity checks, power?on verification, and firmware updates.
• Instrument test setups (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, power analyzers) and document results for design?to?test traceability.

Environmental & EMI/EMC Preparation

• Assist senior engineers in vibration, thermal, and EMI/EMC pre?qualification tests (MIL?STD?810/461); capture redlines and support corrective actions.

Documentation & Configuration Control

• Maintain interface?control documents (ICDs), bills of material (BOM), and part?number trees inside the government digital?engineering environment (CAMEO/SysML, Windchill).
• Generate test procedures, validation reports, and engineering?change packages for flight?test readiness.

Cross?Team Collaboration

• Work alongside Systems, Software, and Test IPTs to resolve integration issues quickly and feed lessons learned into subsequent Product Delivery Orders (PDOs).
• Coordinate with platform SPOs/OEMs on connector standards, grounding schemes, and aircraft power?bus impacts.

Required Skills:

• Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.
• A High School Diploma plus 15 years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the Functionally Aligned Job Descriptions, 5 of which must be in the DoD or a BA/BS plus 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 3 of which must be in the DoD.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Familiarity with MIL?STD?704/1275 power, MIL?STD?461 EMI/EMC, and aerospace wiring best practices (38999/26482, AS50881).
• Experience reading/modifying schematics and using E?CAD tools (Altium, OrCAD, or similar).
• Comfortable with lab instrumentation and fault isolation techniques.

Desired Skills:

• Prior work on airborne networking, SATCOM, crypto, or cross?domain hardware.
• Exposure to Model?Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital?thread environments.
• Experience supporting configuration audits, RMF hardware artifacts, or safety?of?flight packages.
• IPC/WHMA?620 or NASA?STD?8739 wire?harness certification.

Years of Experience: 10-15 years of directly related experience in the field, with at least 3 years of experience in the DoD.

Industry Experience: 

• Experience in the aerospace or defense industry, specifically in electrical engineering, is required.

Education Requirements: 

• A High School Diploma or a BA/BS degree in a relevant technical or professional discipline.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 84874.00/hr.