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UAPx Is Seeking An Electrical Engineer To Join The Team!

 

Job brief

UAPx is looking for an electrical engineer volunteer to help us advance our electrical products, systems, and applications.

On a daily volunteer basis, you’ll be a part of UAPx, carrying out various engineering tasks, such as interviewing our mechanical and systems engineers, science team, and field researchers to understand the equipment, devices, and inventions required to be designed from scratch to advance UAP research.  You'll collaborate with our technicians, computer programmers, and physicists to solve emerging issues by designing unique systems. 

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Ultimately, you will improve our company’s products and processes and contribute to its success. 

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Responsibilities

  • Design, control, and implement electrical systems and products

  • Manage engineering projects and deliver them on time

  • Define internal needs and requirements

  • Ensure that installations and applications are in line with the science team's needs and safety standards

  • Collaborate with engineers and technicians to design and apply new system processes

  • Perform quality and performance analysis on new and legacy IT systems

  • Summarize data and report on test results

  • Examine needs on new equipment, calculate costs and help prepare budgets

  • Monitor maintenance and inspection plans

  • Attend company meetings

  • Ability to deploy into the field for expeditions

  • Inspecting electrical components during and after product installation

  • Testing electronics for problems and proposing solutions

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Requirements and skills

  • Proven expertise as an electrical engineer

    • Preferred to have a minimum of a BS in Engineering, Electrical Engineering​

      • MSc is a plus​

  • Hands-on experience using design and calculation software

  • Deep knowledge of electrical prototyping and manufacturing processes

  • Skilled with taking a junk drawer and turning it into a new scientific data measurement device

  • Problem-solving abilities

  • Attention to detail

  • Strong organizational and communication skills

  • Being a MacGyver-type with the ability to create intricate, novel, and one-off systems based on the needs of our field researchers and physicists. 

  • Able to design circuit boards, cobble together unique instrumentation, perform PCB soldering

  • Strong knowledge of electrical design implementation to meet EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) standards, Intrinsic safety, and wireless concepts.

  • Major design areas include power supplies, batteries, printed circuit boards, embedded systems, AC and DC motors, ESD and EMI suppression, and other analog and digital circuit designs.

  • Generate product prototypes, perform product testing and ensure that products function properly, meet specifications, and timing objectives

  • Ability to specify, evaluate and select appropriate electrical/electronic components

  • Willingness to sign an NDA and be publically associated with UAPx

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To apply for this position, please send a resume AND a cover letter to info(@)uapexpedition.org.  In your cover letter please detail how you learned of UAPx, your interest in studying the UFO/UAP phenomenon, and why you feel you'd be the best addition to the UAPx Inc. team as a volunteer.  

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