Senior Associate, Electrical Engineer

L3Harris•Yorba Linda, CA

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a Senior Associate Electrical Engineer with knowledge in Analog, Digital, or RF engineering. The role participates in complex projects or processes with general oversight, communicates across functions to gain cooperation on operational processes and procedures, makes moderate to substantial system and process improvements, and contributes to departmental goals with a direct impact on results. The engineer designs, develops, modifies, tests, evaluates, and integrates electronic equipment, components, and circuitry for complex, high-performance hardware systems. The position determines design approaches and parameters, assesses design feasibility against time and cost constraints, conducts tests and evaluates results, and selects components based on specifications and reliability. It supports or leads design, development, documentation, verification, manufacturing-debug, and product-modification activities, including designs driven by component obsolescence. Design for manufacturing is considered throughout development. The role includes generating and understanding analog and digital schematics, providing guidance for PCB layout, and potentially reviewing vendor capabilities. Depending on project needs, it may apply specialized expertise in analog, digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, and control systems, or develop and assess specialized algorithms for underwater acoustics, sonar, communications, geophysical, and other sensor-processing applications. The position also develops presentation and training materials, operation manuals, and test procedures. Travel of 5 to 10% is required. The position is located in Yorba Linda, California, with a 4/10 schedule: employees work four 10-hour days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and 0 to 2 years of prior related experience; or 6 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.
Active Secret security clearance.
At least 2 years of experience in analog circuit design.
At least 2 years of experience with RF electronics.
At least 2 years of experience with schematic capture and PCBA layout using Altium or Cadence.
At least 2 years of laboratory experience troubleshooting electronics in the analog and RF domains.
At least 2 years of experience working with a network analyzer, frequency generator, vector analyzer, and digital/analog oscilloscope.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with GPS electronics or circuit design.
Experience with A/D and D/A circuit design, interfacing, and use.
Familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools, including schematic capture, PCB layout, and FPGA development/simulation.
Experience developing military products.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, modify, test, evaluate, and integrate electronic equipment, parts, components, and circuitry for complex, high-performance hardware systems.
Determine design approaches and parameters and analyze electrical requirements for feasibility within time and cost constraints.
Analyze equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.
Select components and equipment based on specifications and reliability, and identify component characteristics that may affect system performance or sustainability.
Support and/or lead design activities for new and existing products, predominantly involving medium frequencies and edge rates.
Consider design for manufacturing throughout all phases of development.
Apply electrical engineering principles to support or lead design, development, documentation, verification, and manufacturing-debug activities.
Support and/or lead moderate-complexity modifications to existing products, often in response to component obsolescence and potentially involving major card-level redesign.
Provide technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems and contribute to project milestones that affect sub-process or small-project success.
Understand and generate schematics for digital and analog electronic circuits and provide guidance for PCB layout.
Review vendor capabilities to support development, as needed.
Apply specialized knowledge in areas such as analog, digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, and control systems, as required.
Develop, design, and assess specialized algorithms for underwater acoustics, sonar, communications, geophysical, and other sensor-processing applications, as applicable.
Generate presentation and training materials, develop and release operation manuals, and develop and release test procedures.