Specialist, Electrical Engineer (Carlsbad, CA)

L3Harris•Carlsbad, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking an Electrical Engineer with knowledge of analog, digital, or RF engineering. The role participates in complex projects or processes with general oversight, communicates within and outside its function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures, and makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. It contributes to departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on departmental results. The engineer designs, develops, modifies, tests, evaluates, and integrates electronic equipment, parts, components, and integrated circuitry for complex, high-performance hardware systems. The role applies electrical engineering principles to design, development, documentation, verification, manufacturing debug, and design modifications, including changes driven by component obsolescence. It may include specialized work involving analog, digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, control systems, communications, and sensor-processing algorithms. The position is based in Carlsbad, California, follows a 9/80 schedule (80 hours across nine workdays every two weeks, with every other Friday off), and requires 5–10% travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of prior relevant experience; or graduate degree and at least 2 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 8 years of prior related experience.
Knowledge of analog, digital, or RF engineering.
Ability to understand and generate schematics with digital and analog electronic circuits.
Ability to provide guidance for PCB layout.

Nice To Haves

At least 3 years of experience in analog circuit design.
At least 3 years of experience with RF electronics.
At least 2 years of schematic capture and PCBA layout experience using Altium or Cadence.
At least 3 years of laboratory experience troubleshooting electronics in analog and RF domains.
At least 2 years of experience with network analyzers, frequency generators, vector analyzers, and digital/analog oscilloscopes.
Familiarity with tactical data links and 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, or integrated circuitry for complex, high-performance hardware systems.
Determine design approaches and parameters and assess feasibility within time and cost constraints.
Analyze equipment to establish operating data, conduct experimental tests, and evaluate results.
Select components and equipment based on specification and reliability analysis, identifying operational characteristics that could affect system performance or sustainability.
Support and/or lead design activities for new and existing products, predominantly involving medium frequencies and edge rates, while considering design for manufacturing throughout development.
Apply electrical engineering principles and techniques to design, develop, document, verify, and debug manufacturing processes for products.
Support and/or lead moderate-complexity design modifications for existing products, often due to component obsolescence and potentially involving major card-level redesign.
Provide technical solutions to difficult problems and contribute to project milestones affecting sub-processes or small project tasks.
Understand and generate schematics for digital and analog electronic circuits and provide guidance for PCB layout.
Review vendor capabilities to support development when needed.
Apply specialized skills in areas such as analog, digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, and control systems as required.
Develop, design, and assess methodologies and performance of specialized algorithms for communications and other sensor-processing applications, as applicable.
Generate presentation materials and develop and release operations manuals and test procedures.
Travel 5–10% as required.