Digital Hardware Design Engineer (Onsite)
About The Position
RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking a highly motivated Electrical Engineer with digital electronics design and analysis skills to join the Computing Products Department within the Displays, Controls, Computing & Networking Directorate. This department is responsible for the development and sustainment of state-of-the-art avionics hardware products including ruggedized mission computers, video processing modules, and network products used in commercial and military aircraft platforms. This role is onsite, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This role supports all phases of the hardware development lifecycle—design, integration, verification, and factory transition. The Digital Hardware Design Engineer will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, including Systems, Software, Mechanical, Environmental Effects, and Manufacturing/Operations teams, to ensure all product requirements are successfully achieved. Competence in high-speed digital circuit board design, testability, and thermal management is essential.
Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and less than 2 years of prior experience
- Less than two (2) years of engineering digital circuit design experience
- Familiarity with the development and design of electronic circuit designs, and/or multi-assembly system/unit design
- Hands-on troubleshooting skills
- Good communication and presentation skills
Nice To Haves
- Capable of effectively collaborating with team members and independently managing assigned tasks
- Familiarity with taking design concepts from block diagrams or requirements to developing complete hardware designs, including verification through testing and integration
- Experience with design tools (schematic capture) and PCB design process to analyze and simulate designs prior to hardware implementation
- Experience using PCB electronic circuit design software: signal integrity, power integrity and analog simulation
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, simulate and test Circuit Card Assemblies for Avionics Computers (Processors, FPGAs, Memory, high-speed interfaces)
- Operate lab equipment to perform integration testing on hardware designs
- Schematic capture of digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
