About the position
Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond. At Collins Aerospace, our Trusted Mission Processing Department is responsible for developing product solutions that give those who defend our country the necessary technical advantage to keep our country safe. Our team works on industry-leading product capabilities associated with Security, Flight Controls, and Mission Computing that enable secure communications and autonomous flight. We are currently seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to provide a combination of engineering leadership & design in the development of state-of-the-art products with a highly accomplished team. The Mission Hardware team is seeking a determined and passionate Senior Electrical Design Engineer specializing in digital and high-speed processing designs that will be responsible for developing technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems related to the entire product life cycle, including proposal, design, manufacture, integration, test, and transition to production of various types of military ruggedized electronic equipment. We are looking for candidates willing to collaborate, innovate, and team with our engineers to generate and utilize today’s cutting-edge technology to design digital electronics circuits that implement video and digital signal processing, high-speed digital electronics, and configurable logic. The candidate will work with minimal direction or supervision while exercising considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment. Successful candidates should expect to be immersed in a fast-paced, team-based, and challenging technical environment where an engineer with talent and initiative can stand out and thrive.
Responsibilities
- Design, analysis, simulation, test, and integration of digital electronic modules and/or circuit card assemblies (CCAs)
- Circuit card design including hardware designs with processors, FPGAs, memory, power regulators, and industry interfaces, such as: PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, QSPI, JTAG, and UART
- Requirements capture management and verification for small to medium electronic packaging circuit cards
- Prepare and present project technical information to peers and internal/external customers
- Identify and address project problems (Root Cause) and recommend resolutions (Corrective Actions) to ensure the successful completion of projects
- Design tools experience with requirements capture, schematic capture, signal integrity and timing analysis (ex. DxDesigner, DOORS, and Hyperlynx) with digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs for military applications
- Create Printed Wiring Board layouts
- Facilitates project tasks between cross-functional integrated product teams to ensure alignment with overall project objectives and team collaboration
- Perform hardware requirements decomposition, creation, tracing, and validation
Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
- Experience with schematic capture and printed wiring board layout for digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs
- Experience with MIL-STD-810 and/or DO-160 environmental requirements or equivalent
- Experience with electronic product packaging requirements
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Design to Cost (DTC+), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), and compliance with MIL-STD-810 (environmental), MIL-STD-461 (EMI), and MIL-HDBK-217F (reliability)
- Familiarity with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), bid and proposal processes, and Agile methodologies (JIRA)
- Expertise in PCIe, Ethernet standards (10GBase-KR, 1/10Gb UTP, etc.), and communication buses like 1553, ARINC 429, RS-422, RS-232, and RS-485
- Knowledge of ANSI/VITA VPX and VNX standards (42.0, 46.0, 48.0, etc.) and avionics-related standards such as RTCA DO-160, DO-248, DO-178, SAE ARP4754A, and ARP4761
- Experience with clock trees, spread spectrum clocking, DC/DC power supplies (Buck/Boost, LDOs), amplification stages, and filter circuits
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
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
