Senior Specialist, Electrical Engineer
About The Position
L3Harris has an immediate opening for a skilled Electrical Engineer to join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact for our customers. In this role, you will lead electronics design efforts utilizing industry-standard electrical design and analysis tools, including schematic capture, functional and block diagram generation, and electrical wiring diagrams — spanning digital, power, analog, and mixed-signal designs. You will work closely with a collaborative Integrated Product Team (IPT), partnering alongside Systems, Mechanical, Software, Firmware, and Electrical Engineers, as well as Technicians, to deliver innovative solutions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong ability to manage project costs and schedules while meeting critical milestones, and will serve as a key contributor during Customer reviews. This is a full-time, on-site position supporting our Precision Electronic Warfare business at our State College, PA facility.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Active DOD Secret, TS, or TS/SCI clearance.
- Unique ability to combine electonic warfare system knowledge with digital, analog, and RF design.
- Thorough understanding of version control best practices and tools (e.g., Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management).
- Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group.
- Experience with preparing presentation materials.
- Willingness to travel occasionally in support of program activities.
- 4+ years of experience in digital electronics technology, parts availability, and design architecture.
- 4+ years of design experience through the development cycle completing with integration and test of circuit designs.
Responsibilities
- Knowledge of electronic design and simulation tools such as Xpedition, Altium, OrCAD, Spice, and Mentor Graphics tools.
- Create design review packages and present circuit designs at peer reviews. This includes analysis, performance budgets, and test data that demonstrate how the design will meet functional requirements.
- Create test plans and test procedures to validate that circuit implementation meets functional requirements.
- Readily translate system-level requirements into detailed implementation level block diagrams.
- Lead bench-level system integration with hardware, microcontroller, FPGA, and software designs.
- Work with our Operations team to transition test and integration of new electronic hardware to the production phase.
- Support the planning and execution of project plans and design reviews; involvement in production release of modified or new product documentation.
- Demonstrate mastery of product lifecycle management (PLM) systems.
- Review product specifications; generate system and module-level block diagrams, flow diagrams, and design concepts.
- Generate trade studies with analysis of cost and schedule impacts on short turnaround efforts.
- Support proposal efforts and early stages of the program to define detailed system requirements.
- Design, build, and test of digital and mixed signal circuit boards.
- Experience with board design using microcontrollers.
- Experience with microcontroller programming and debugging in embedded C.
- Experience with Python and other scripting tools for verification of hardware I/O.
- Familiarity with Ethernet, RS-485, I2C, and other electronic communication protocols.
- Knowledge of Linux operating system and familiarity with command line execution.
- Ability and desire to own development through all phases of the product lifecycle.
- Ability to obtain a DOD Secret Security Clearance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
