Principal Electrical Engineer - Computing Solutions (Onsite)

Full-time - Principal

Melbourne, FL

101-250 employees

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

Join our innovative team as a Principal Electrical Engineer - Hardware Designer and Project Lead! We are looking for a visionary engineer to tackle complex challenges and help to drive business value through product line architectures. In this role, you will be responsible for helping to shape our reusability strategy, enhancing our competitive edge and delivering exceptional value to our business. Your expertise will not only elevate the technical capabilities of our projects but also drive efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate time to market. By integrating robust design practices and strategic project management, you will ensure that our products meet the highest standards of quality and performance. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of the normal approach, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a tangible difference in our teams' success. You will work collaboratively with a cross-domain team to architect product line computing modules. You will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of flight-critical circuit card and sub-level module hardware for military and commercial aviation solutions and avionics products. You will manage schematic capture of digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs. You will manage a project plan requiring estimation of task size, identification of dependencies, and risk and opportunity management. You will lead an engineering team by organizing tasks, coordinating team efforts, asking questions, communicating status, raising issues, brainstorming ideas, helping others, practicing active listening, and promoting a collaborative environment. In this role, you will learn the technologies of today and tomorrow which we count on to maintain world leadership in the avionics industry. You will learn all phases of the hardware product life cycle from requirements through to verification, while employing the company engineering processes to produce high quality products. You will learn the requirements for product certification required by federal agencies. You will learn how to establish and maintain a computing module platform product line with a broad base of customers.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a cross-domain team to architect product line computing modules.
• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of flight-critical circuit card and sub-level module hardware for military and commercial aviation solutions and avionics products.
• Manage schematic capture of digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs.
• Manage a project plan requiring estimation of task size, identification of dependencies, and risk and opportunity management.
• Lead an engineering team by organizing tasks, coordinating team efforts, asking questions, communicating status, raising issues, brainstorming ideas, helping others, practicing active listening, and promoting a collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience.
• U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or granted refugee or asylee status).
• 8+ years developing hardware design including working with systems and subsystems teams to determine meaningful and testable requirements for the design.
• 5+ years of experience working with standard lab equipment for integration testing of hardware designs.

Nice-to-haves

• Printed board (PWB) layout expertise
• Experience interfacing with complex embedded devices (microprocessors, graphics processors, memory)
• Digital logic device development experience (including FPGA and ASIC development)
• 6+ years of formal qualification experience (preferred DO-160 or MIL-STD-810/MIL-STD-461 standards, DO-254)
• Understanding of Design to Cost (DTC+), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Employee Scholar Program, tuition reimbursement program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy: Pet Insurance, Home and Auto, additional life insurance, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal
• Ovia Health, fertility and family planning
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 5 free counseling sessions
• Incentives for a Healthy You
• Bright Horizons, back-up child/elder care and college coach resources
• Autism Benefit
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Adoption Assistance
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program