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Job No: 503193 Work Type: Staff Full Time (1500 hours or greater)
Location: Dayton, OH
Category: Research Institute Staff
Department: Sensor Test & Evaluation - 250611
Pay Grade: R2 - Exempt
Advertised: November 24, 2025
Applications close: December 08, 2025
Position Summary: The Sensor Test and Evaluation Group is looking for an electronics engineer to support a rapid prototyping team, applying electrical and mechanical skills to support the development of custom solutions for the Air Force. The ideal candidate will be a creative, out-of-the box thinker who can work with a team to make ideas into reality. Hands-on development, fabrication, test, and troubleshooting skills are a must. Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering or related technical field
- 6 years of relevant experience
- Proficient in reading, interpreting, and editing electrical schematics and diagrams
- Proficient in schematic capture and Printed Circuit Board layout
- Ability to swiftly translate schematic diagrams and CAD renderings of complex electronic system designs into working prototypes
- Effective oral and written communication
- Due to requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. citizens
Preferred Qualifications While not everyone may possess all of the preferred qualifications, the ideal candidate will bring many of the following:
- Proficient at communicating ideas and concepts via oral presentations
- Experience with Altium Designer eCAD
- Experience with SolidWorks mCAD
- Knowledge of embedded C/C++ programming
- Proficient in fabrication/assembly and test of electronics
- Soldering (surface mount and through-hole)
- Electronic test equipment (power supply, DC load, function generator, multi-meter, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer)
- Troubleshooting and modification of ‘first article’ prototypes’
- Experience with wire harness and cable design and fabrication
- Experience with generation and interpretation of technical documentation including Bills of Material (BoMs), technical drawings, test reports, work instructions, training material, and engineering change orders
- Experience with unmanned systems
- Ability to fabricate, instrument and operate static test stands for aircraft and vehicle propulsion systems to determine power, thrust and specific energy consumption for both electric motor and internal combustion engines.
- Advanced knowledge of engine control systems and sensors
- Direct experience implementing serial communications such as I2C, SPI and UART
- Willingness to travel, occasionally, to CONUS locations
Special Instructions To Applicants To apply please submit a cover letter addressing each minimum qualification and any applicable preferred qualifications that you meet.
Closing Statement Informed by its Catholic and Marianist mission, the University is committed to the dignity of every human being. Informed by this commitment, we seek to increase diversity in all of its forms, achieve fair outcomes, and model inclusion across our campus community. The University is committed to policies of affirmative action designed to increase the employment opportunities of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in compliance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1973.
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