{"id":3089784,"url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware","title":"Electrical Engineer – Embedded Systems / Flight Control Hardware","company":{"id":722,"name":"Peraton","domain":"peraton.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/peraton","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.071,"time_to_fill_p50_days":10,"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Aberdeen, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":80000,"max":128000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":128000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ArduPilot","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"MAVLink","optional":false},{"name":"ROS","optional":false},{"name":"RTOS","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T14:34:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-25T12:47:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Responsibilities\nWhat You'll Get to Do\nPeraton Labs is searching for an Electrical Engineer to design and develop embedded electronic systems supporting unmanned, autonomous, and other advanced platforms for critical national security missions. You'll work across circuit design, embedded computing, flight control hardware, sensors, and imaging systems to rapidly prototype and mature integrated hardware capabilities.\nMore About the Role\nAs an Electrical Engineer, you'll provide hands-on engineering support from system architecture and component selection through schematic design, PCB development, firmware integration, board bring-up, and system testing. You'll work closely with software, mechanical, autonomy, and systems engineers to integrate flight controllers, processors, sensors, cameras, communications hardware, and other embedded components into complete platforms. This position requires 5 days a week on site at our Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland location.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nActive Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 2 years of experience; 0 years with a Master's degree. \nExperience designing and developing embedded electronic systems, including schematic design, component selection, PCB development, and hardware bring-up.\nExperience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, or SoCs and associated peripheral circuitry.\nExperience developing or integrating flight control hardware, avionics, robotics, or other real-time embedded systems.\nWorking knowledge of embedded interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, USB, Ethernet, or similar.\nExperience developing, modifying, or debugging embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar languages.\nHands-on experience troubleshooting hardware and firmware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other laboratory equipment.\nAbility to integrate sensors, communications devices, and other peripherals into embedded platforms.\nUS Citizenship\nDesired Qualifications\nExperience developing hardware for UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, or aerospace platforms.\nExperience with flight controllers, IMUs, GNSS receivers, ESCs, servos, motor control, or related avionics.\nExperience integrating cameras, image sensors, video processing hardware, or electro-optical systems.\nFamiliarity with camera interfaces such as MIPI CSI, USB, Ethernet, or similar high-speed interfaces.\nExperience with embedded Linux, RTOS environments, or bare-metal firmware development.\nFamiliarity with STM32, NXP, TI, Microchip, NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi Compute Module, or similar embedded platforms.\nExperience with power distribution, battery-powered systems, DC/DC conversion, and power integrity.\nExperience with PCB layout considerations for mixed-signal, high-speed digital, or compact embedded systems.\nFamiliarity with PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink, ROS/ROS 2, or similar flight control and robotics ecosystems.\nExperience rapidly prototyping and integrating custom embedded hardware into operational or test platforms.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nTarget Salary Range\n$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.EEO\nEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4579,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Electrical & Electronic Engineering","Information Security","Homeland Security","Systems Integrators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T14:34:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":10,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":128000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/peraton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T16:01:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23088,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":722},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=722"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fperaton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fperaton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fperaton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/peraton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fperaton-electrical-engineer-embedded-systems-flight-control-hardware"}]}