Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-04-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

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 Trusted Mission Processing Department is responsible for developing product solutions that give those who defend our country the necessary technical advantage to keep our country safe.  Our team works on industry-leading product capabilities associated with Security, Flight Controls, and Mission Computing that enable secure communications and autonomous flight.  We are currently seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to provide a combination of engineering leadership & design in the development of state-of-the-art products with a highly accomplished team.

The Mission Hardware team is seeking a determined and passionate Senior Electrical Design Engineer specializing in digital and high-speed processing designs that will be responsible for developing technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems related to the entire product life cycle, including proposal, design, manufacture, integration, test, and transition to production of various types of military ruggedized electronic equipment. We are looking for candidates willing to collaborate, innovate, and team with our engineers to generate and utilize today’s cutting-edge technology to design digital electronics circuits that implement video and digital signal processing, high-speed digital electronics, and configurable logic.  The candidate will work with minimal direction or supervision while exercising considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.

Successful candidates should expect to be immersed in a fast-paced, team-based, and challenging technical environment where an engineer with talent and initiative can stand out and thrive. To view more on Mission Systems, click here.

 What YOU Will Do:

• Design, analysis, simulation, test, and integration of digital electronic modules and/or circuit card assemblies (CCAs)
• Circuit card design including hardware designs with processors, FPGAs, memory, power regulators, and industry interfaces, such as: PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, QSPI, JTAG, and UART.
• Requirements capture management and verification for small to medium electronic packaging circuit cards.
• Prepare and present project technical information to peers and internal/external customers
• Identify and address project problems (Root Cause) and recommend resolutions (Corrective Actions) to ensure the successful completion of projects
• Design tools experience with requirements capture, schematic capture, signal integrity and timing analysis (ex. DxDesigner, DOORS, and Hyperlynx) with digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs for military applications
• Create Printed Wiring Board layouts
• Facilitates project tasks between cross-functional integrated product teams to ensure alignment with overall project objectives and team collaboration
• Perform hardware requirements decomposition, creation, tracing, and validation.

What YOU Will Learn:

• Learn, discover and expand your knowledge about aerospace navigation systems and other various engineering disciplines
• You will learn about the Command, Control, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence & Autonomy (C4IA) organization in Mission Systems
• Learn and take advantage of opportunities to excel professionally with RTX's exceptional employee scholar programs and continuing education
• Learn to thrive and be supported in a dynamic team-driven environment
• Design hardware to meet rigorous military requirements for environment, functionality, and Size Weight and Power Cost (SWaP-C)
• Experience as a technical lead and/or project lead of a team in the design, test, analysis, integration, qualification, and documentation of hardware of high complexity.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience
• 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
• Experience with schematic capture and printed wiring board layout for digital/analog mixed s