PM&P Electrical Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-10-09

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:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: 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 Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer at Richardson, TX to work Parts, Materials, and Process. As a critical team member and leadership partner, the Sr. Principal Electrical Engineer will design, develop, and integrate the most technologically advanced systems in the world.  This role is a lead position, responsible for clean sheet and upgrading electronic solutions. The person 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:

• Provide hardware design guidance for parts and processes alignment for MIL-STD-11991 compliance
• Review designs and provide direction with a working knowledge of MIL-STD-11991 Prohibitied (Parts, Materials, and Processes) PM&P
• Review engineering part selection for qualification to MIL-STD-11991A, MIL-STD-1568, and other program-specific requirements.
• Recommend and assist in selecting form-fit-function replacements and alternate sources of supply
• Create non-conforming/variance component reports to be reviewed by PM&P review board.
• Draft component specifications to ensure parts can be manufactured to meet program requirements.
• Utilize your extensive experience in designing digital and analog products including microprocessor systems, low-power supplies, communication subsystems.
• Utilize your extensive experience with circuit design, including schematic capture, power, FPGA resource utilization
• Complete Knowledge of or experience with PCB layout, board stack ups, via structures, grounding strategies, impedance matching, trace width calculations
• Utilize your extensive experience with signal integrity and designing for high-speed designs.
• Use your in-depth 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
• Utilize your extensive experience with pre-placement of components and ability to coordinate with mechanical engineers to generation board outline files for circuit cards

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
• Extensive Experience with Components identification and selection
• 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
• 7 years using Accuris/IHS Part Intelligence, GIDEP, Part Finder or equivalent

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Active DoD security clearance
• Extensive parts/components selection, qualification, and testing for micro components functioning in the Aerospace environments.
• 5+ years using DLA ASSIST and/or DLA Qualified Products Database (QPD/QPL)
• Recent experience with 3U VPX and/or SOSA hardware
• Understanding of backplane topologies, slot and module profiles of 3U VPX card sets
• Prior experience in SAP environment
• Circuit board design with Xili