Senior Specialist, Digital Hardware Design Engineer

L3Harris•San Diego, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a digital hardware design engineer to design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications. The role contributes to digital and RF circuits supporting special operations and intelligence communities and national security applications, including threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and data analytics. The engineer works within a multidisciplinary, collaborative team to develop communications systems through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercial chipsets, and embedded processors. Product design work includes schematic capture, simulations, PCB analysis, and layout. The position is based in Carlsbad, California, or San Diego, California, and follows a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 6 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 4 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 10 years of prior related experience.
Experience with circuit card assemblies and digital hardware design.
Familiarity with laboratory test equipment.
At least 2 years of experience with digital circuit card verification, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
Experience using laboratory debug techniques with digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and other complex measurement devices.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or electrical engineering.
Experience with Mentor Graphics tools.
Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git or ClearCase.
Familiarity with Confluence or other information-sharing tools.

Responsibilities

Design custom digital circuit cards using schematic capture tools and components such as FPGAs, embedded processors, and networking components.
Implement industry-standard interfaces and memory technologies, including 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4, JESD, PCIe, and 1000BASE-T.
Develop and maintain circuit card documentation, including requirements, test procedures, and bills of materials.
Characterize circuit card performance across a range of environmental conditions.
Perform functional and performance measurements, troubleshoot issues, and debug circuit cards.
Support test engineering in transitioning circuit card testing to manufacturing.
Participate in design reviews and support integration of circuit cards into larger systems.
Perform product design activities including schematic capture, simulations, PCB analysis, and layout.