Electrical Engineer II (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-10-16

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

Looking for the right runway for your career to take flight? Consider joining us here at Collins Aerospace, where we’re working side-by-side with customers on exciting industry possibilities. With a comprehensive portfolio, extensive capabilities and broad expertise, we’re crafting intelligent solutions to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market – all representing the best in innovation and technology for the industries we serve across commercial, business, space, and military and defense aviation. 

With 68,000 employees across 46 countries around the world, we offer an extensive flight list of opportunities to explore the depth of our organization. We offer flexible work options to meet your needs by offering on-site, hybrid and remote roles. Join us and help build a more advanced, more autonomous, more connected, more electric and more sustainable future! 

We are seeking Firmware Engineer(s) I at the Largo, Florida site.

You will be a member of a multi-disciplinary group of System, Hardware and Software Engineers.  We are a growing business developing new products in an aggressive and competitive market. The new designs are exciting and technically challenging.

Are you up for a challenge?

We have openings supporting programs for our US military and various international customers, keeping the world safe from foreign threats.  As a Firmware Engineer II, you will be a member of an Integrated Program Team (IPT)) creating complex firmware solutions implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), System on Chip (SoC), and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs). Development activities may also include laboratory integration, test and evaluation, fault isolation of prototype hardware, and system qualification testing support. This position may require occasional business-related travel.

These are exciting and challenging opportunities with tremendous growth potential leading to an IPT Lead or a Senior Electrical Engineer.   Join our dynamic, diverse, and rapidly growing team.

What You Will Do:  

• Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture

• Generate firmware documentation that describes the firmware architecture

• Design HDL (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog) based digital logic circuits that are structured and readable

• Build test benches to verify/test the HDL based design

• Generate constraints for target device (FPGA/SoC/CPLD)

• Create scripts to automate build, integration, and test activities.

• Verify target device functionality in laboratory environment (multi-meters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers)

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Requires a Master’s degree and 12 months or less of relevant professional work experience (excluding internships).

• 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 ​

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Curriculum geared towards embedded systems

• Previous co-op/internship/projects experience implementing and verifying firmware

• Familiarity with C/C++,  HLS, or UVM

• Familiarity with programmable logic development tools (e.g. ISE, Vivado, Quartus II, Libero, Synplify)

• Linux scripting experience (bash shells, make files, Tcl, Python)

• Familiarity with source control (e.g. GIT, SVN, ClearCase)

What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Flexible work weeks: 9/80A, 5/40; Flexible work Hours:  Core hours, Modified time

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disabi