Lead, Electrical Engineering - Digital Hardware (Palm Bay, FL)

L3Harris Technologies•Palm Bay, FL

10d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer – Digital Hardware to support the design and development of advanced space-qualified digital hardware for mission-critical applications. The role contributes to spacecraft and payload digital solutions and supports current and future programs, internal research and development, and strategic growth initiatives. The position involves digital subsystem architecture development, circuit simulation, detailed analysis, hardware verification, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer supports hardware development from requirements analysis and architecture definition through detailed design, schematic capture, simulation, documentation, manufacturing, integration, and verification. Work includes designing and analyzing digital and mixed-signal circuits and translating customer and system-level requirements into electrical specifications and power architectures. The role also includes troubleshooting hardware from component through system levels, validating designs using laboratory instruments, conducting trade studies, and supporting proposals and new business opportunities. The engineer collaborates with systems, firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program leadership, and supports robust design margins and risk mitigation for high-reliability applications in harsh environments. Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 9 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of prior related experience; or at least 13 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.
Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and leadership levels.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and developing digital hardware systems.
Experience with high-speed or dense processing hardware architectures.
Experience with hardware integration, verification, and debug.
Experience working in a collaborative engineering development environment.
Experience with mission definition, concept generation, trade studies, preliminary and final design, component selection, integration, test support, materials selection, and design documentation.
Experience developing qualified deliverable power hardware for space, aerospace, defense, medical, or other mission-critical applications.
Experience working with manufacturing and production teams in a program environment.
Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Review Boards (FRB).
Experience presenting technical material to program leadership, customers, and review boards.
Experience serving as a subcontract technical representative, including supplier evaluation, statement of work development, and technical oversight of external deliverables.
Experience with digital hardware design for phased array antenna systems, including beamforming control, high-speed data conversion, timing and synchronization, RF control interfaces, and mixed-signal circuit card assembly integration.
Experience in space-based hardware design, high-speed digital design, FPGA-based systems, processor and memory subsystem design, DSP-based hardware, networking hardware, or mixed-signal electronics.
Experience designing, integrating, and analyzing high-speed electrical and optical interfaces and protocols, including 10/25 Gb Ethernet, PCI Express Gen 2/3/4/5, electrical-to-optical conversion, optical-to-electrical conversion, and fiber-optic transceiver integration.
Experience with ECAD and analysis tools including LTSpice, PSpice, Cadence, Siemens Xpedition, and Hyperlynx 25.10.
Experience integrating firmware/software with hardware in lab and system environments.
MATLAB, Python, or similar programming experience for modeling, analysis, and automation.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of advanced digital and mixed-signal hardware using sound electrical engineering principles and best practices.
Support hardware development from requirements analysis and architecture definition through detailed design, schematic capture, simulation, documentation, manufacturing, integration, and verification.
Translate customer and system-level requirements into detailed electrical specifications and power architectures while balancing technical and cost considerations.
Design and analyze digital and mixed-signal circuit topologies, including processor and microcontroller circuits, FPGA/CPLD/digital array designs, memory and storage interfaces, ADC/DAC interfaces, high-speed digital communications, clocking, data acquisition and control, mixed-signal interfaces, and reset, monitoring, and supervisory circuits.
Perform detailed digital-circuit analysis for timing and margin, thermal performance, signal integrity, power integrity, radiation effects, EMI/EMC, and component derating.
Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues at component, board, module, payload, and system levels.
Use laboratory instruments to validate designs and investigate issues.
Conduct trade studies and develop conceptual digital solutions for proposals, IRAD, and new business opportunities.
Collaborate with systems, firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program leadership teams.
Evaluate component tolerances and environmental impacts to ensure robust design margins for high-reliability applications in harsh operating environments.
Support risk reduction and mitigation activities involving obsolescence, cost, producibility, and long-lead materials.