About the position
Looking for a motivated individual to be a Principal Electrical Engineer to work with multidisciplinary teams developing complex engineering solutions. The Avionics Test Engineering organization is a global engineering organization responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the manufacturing test solutions in support of the $5B Avionics strategic business unit as well as external customers including armed services and airlines both domestic and international. As a key member of the Avionics Test Engineering team, the Principal Electrical Engineer will primarily support internal customers such as Factory. Here you will be given hardware and/or software tasks developing product tests for a variety of Collins Aerospace products. If you don't want to be limited to only hardware or software engineering this position is for you, as knowledge of both are essential to this position.
Responsibilities
- Support manufacturing and service test solutions for Collins Aerospace products.
- Develop strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Utilize hardware and software development and debug skills on multi-rack test stations used to test Collins Aerospace products.
- Troubleshoot HW & SW solutions.
- Work closely with other engineering disciplines (e.g., mechanical and systems engineering) to ensure the electrical design is appropriate for the project/product design approach.
- Ability to reverse engineer existing equipment (e.g., documenting something that is already built).
- Support automated test software development.
- Review, and verify automated test procedures that will drive software changes required to support operations.
- Present project / technical status to peers, internal management and customers.
- Demonstrate excellent time management skills - ability to multitask and delegate work to support technicians, engineering project assistants, and peers.
- Demonstrate knowledge of hardware processes, tools, methods, work flow, and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) discipline with 3-5 years' experience OR in lieu of a degree, 8-9 years' experience.
- Good communication, documentation, and collaboration/teamwork skills.
- Software development experience/proficiency - LabView and/or C# certification or trainings.
- Experience working with BOTH the hardware and software.
- Ability to read electronic schematics.
- Experience working on RF (Radio Frequency) devices.
- Domain knowledge of avionics products.
- Demonstrated troubleshooting and Problem-Solving Skills within a comparable environment.
Benefits
- 401K
- medical
- dental
- vision
- sick time as applicable to state law
