Electrical Interconnect Engineer

PGS Worldwide is seeking an Electrical Interconnect Engineer in Orlando, Florida for an approximately six-month hybrid contract-to-hire role supporting a leading aerospace & defense company. This position will support electrical interconnect, cable and harness design, power distribution, and system-level hardware integration for complex aerospace systems.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years of electrical or mechanical engineering experience in the aerospace industry.

• Experience with aerospace hardware systems, including electrical schematics, design, development, integration, and testing.

• Experience with full-system cable tracing, interconnection documentation, schematics, and configuration management.

• 2+ years of experience with Zuken E3.

• 2+ years of experience with MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC requirements.

• 2+ years of experience with IPC-WHMA-A-620 cable and wire-harness requirements.

• Experience designing or documenting electrical cables, wiring harnesses, connectors, and interconnect systems.

• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

• U.S. citizenship required.

• Ability to obtain a security clearance.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with 3D wiring-harness layouts and bill-of-materials alignment.

• Experience with power budgeting, load-flow calculations, thermal derating, redundancy, and power-distribution design.

• Experience designing custom I/O cables using D-Sub, RJ45, fiber, HDMI, or similar connectors.

• Experience with EMI/EMC shielding, signal integrity, ESD, and cable failure-mode analysis.

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-1513 and MIL-STD-464.

• Experience with power-system analysis tools such as ETAP or SKM.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain electrical interconnect documentation, cable drawings, schematics, and interconnection matrices.

• Perform full-system cable tracing and maintain traceability to engineering requirements.

• Design cable and wiring-harness assemblies, including connector selection, routing, labeling, and termination requirements.

• Develop and maintain E-CAD documentation using Zuken E3.

• Support power budgeting, power-distribution analysis, and electrical system design.

• Evaluate EMI/EMC, signal-integrity, thermal, and electrical risks associated with cables and interconnect systems.

• Manage revisions, configurations, BOM alignment, and technical documentation throughout the product lifecycle.

• Collaborate with mechanical, systems, firmware, and test engineers to resolve hardware-integration issues.

Work Schedule / Shift

• Hybrid position in Orlando, Florida.

• Candidates must be able to work onsite approximately half of each week.

• 4/10 first-shift schedule.

Pay

$49.00–$67.00/hour

Job ID: 23291

Military veterans and transitioning military members are encouraged to apply to all PGS Worldwide positions. All of our jobs are military-friendly, and we work with leaders in Aerospace who rely on your military expertise to support mission-critical programs nationwide. As a Veteran Founded company, we know that the military has given you the skills and training you need to succeed in positions like this, and we want to support your success in the civilian sector however we can. We thank you for your service and humbly offer our own in return by helping you take your career to the next level.