Senior Engineering Manager - FPGA (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-12-22

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Joining Collins Aerospace isn’t just about finding a job; it’s about embarking on a journey to redefine the future of aerospace technology.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. 

This position is responsible for managing the engineering development and program execution of FPGA development for Collins Aerospace Mission Systems (MiS).  Responsibilities include engineering management and engaged involvement in all aspects of FPGA development and integration efforts as well as project management skills including earned value analysis. A strong candidate will have eight to ten years of applicable development and/or management experience in FPGA development. 

What You Will Do: 

• Responsibilities include planning, organizing, resource allocation, personnel development, performance re‐views, salary planning, and overall group management of FPGA engineers.

• Project execution direction to the engineering team.

• Will work directly with and/or manage daily activities of FPGA engineers, project engineering, program management, and supporting organizations to develop FPGA solutions for military products based on product line architectures. 

• Will lead the engineering team using strong interaction, interpersonal, mentoring and negotiating skills, and will be responsible for managing project risks/issues and elevating to upper management when appropriate.

• Responsible for adhering to and supporting Collins process methodologies while developing and managing commitments to meet project financial and schedule deliverables and quality requirements. 

• Will work directly with systems engineering teams and coordinate requirements identification, development and acceptance testing of software deliveries.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.

• Experience in all product development phases from concept, initial planning, Preliminary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Test Readiness Review (TRR), final qualification testing, and factory transition. 

• High-level understanding of systems and hardware development. 

• Proven ability to guide and lead development processes, develop the team composition, and will be responsible for training.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued secret security clearance is required.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Bid narrative write-ups and parametric estimation tools such as SEER.

• Ability to matrix multiple programs and development tasks while supporting the various projects objectives of cost and schedule. 

• Strong process background, including Agile development concepts

• DevOps concepts for the automated build/test/release of FPGA solutions.

• Can demonstrate sound decision making skills, communication skills, networking skills, and able to accurately forecast project work and costs.

• Configuration management strategies utilizing tools such as Subversion and GIT.

• Embedded Operating Systems using Linux, Green Hills Integrity, VxWorks, and\or LynxOS.

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are