Principal Electrical Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-09-22

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 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: Top Secret

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. 

We are currently seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer at Richardson, TX. As a critical team member and electronics architect, the Principal Electrical Engineer will design, develop, and integrate the most technologically advanced systems in the world.  The Principal Electrical Engineer is a lead position responsible for clean sheet and upgrade electronic solutions. The Principal Electrical Engineer will work with other experienced engineers with extensive backgrounds in circuit card and firmware design, as well as mentoring less experienced engineers as they complete circuit card designs.  The candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will have the ability to work self-guided yet collaboratively in a team environment.

What You Will Do:

• Experience in designing digital and analog products including microprocessor systems, low-power supplies, communication subsystems.
• Experience with circuit design, including schematic capture, power, FPGA resource utilization
• Knowledge of or experience with PCB layout, board stack ups, via structures, grounding strategies, impedance matching, trace width calculations
• Experience with signal integrity and designing for high-speed designs.
• Familiarity with signal integrity, best practices and ability to coordinate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide and/or source the needed inputs for subject matter experts to run models
• Experience with pre-placement of components and ability to coordinate with mechanical engineers to generation board outline files for circuit cards
• Experience with Mixed Signal Design: One or more of the following.  A/D Converters, Digital Down Converters, D/A Converters, Digital Waveform Generators, Mixed Signal CCAs, Mixed Signal Modules and Subsystems
• Digital Hardware: One or more of the following.  Subsystem/Module Digital Circuits, FPGA/ASICs, COTS Interfaces, Subsystem Development, VME/PCI interfaces Digital Systems, System Trades, Architecture, Embedded Processing
• Ability to generate and communicate requirements and specifications for vendors to facilitate the quote and design of new hardware
• Experience with new architecture development
• Experience in industry circuit board design tools (Xpedition Enterprise preferred)
• The ability to train and mentor early-career engineers
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Recent experience with 3U VPX and/or SOSA hardware
• Understanding of backplane topologies, slot and module profiles of 3U VPX card sets
• Circuit board design with Xilinx and/or Altera FPGA/SoCs
• Zynq, Kintex/Virtex Ultrascale and newer
• TEMPEST design experience
• Working knowledge of EMI/EMC standards for military applications.
• Experience designing for Military Aircraft applications
• Experience using ALM tools including Jira and Confluence
• Experience working with industry standard toolsets for requirement capture and task management (e.g. DOORs, Microsoft Project)
• Experience in developing test procedures and test fixtures
• Ability to read, create, and review engineering drawings including schematics, assembly drawings and parts lists
• RF design experience
• Experience interfacing to RF circuitry and high-speed A/D D/A conversion
• Experience with implementation of high-speed backplanes
• Experience with Mentor Graphics tool suite
• Proven analytical skills using in-circuit simulation (Matlab, LT Spice)
• Knowledge of firmware dev