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Senior Electrical Engineer, Intelligence Systems

Santa Ana, CA (OC-31)💼 Full-time💰 $146,000–$146,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior Electrical Product Sustainment Engineer responsible for triaging field failures, driving root cause investigations to closure, and managing failure data to ensure reliable production operations for defense systems.

Role type

Senior IC hardware product sustainment engineer

Builds

Defense intelligence systems and fielded hardware products

Domain

Defense / Intelligence Community / Hardware Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

root cause analysis (8D, 5 Whys, FMEA), fabrication and assembly-level failure analysis (CT scan, X-ray, SEM), schematic interpretation, interface familiarity (Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB), data analysis (SQL, Python, JMP), analog and digital electronics knowledge, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 standards knowledge, PLM/ERP systems experience, engineering change order (ECO) management, statistical process control (SPC)

Technologies

CT scan, X-ray, SEM, Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, SQL, Python, JMP

Responsibilities

Triage product failures from production and the field, drive root cause investigations to closure, collect and analyze failure data, work cross-functionally with Quality and Supply Chain, implement design and process changes to improve yield, evaluate supplier product change notifications, support production test and debug, track sustainment metrics

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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