Principal Electrical Engineer: Digital Hardware Design - Onsite

RTX RTX · Aerospace · fort wayne, IN +1

Principal Electrical Engineer specializing in Digital Hardware Design for defense products, including missiles, radars, and electronic warfare systems. Responsibilities include requirements decomposition, architecture definition, design, analysis, simulation, integration, verification, and leading engineering teams. Requires a degree in STEM and significant experience with embedded devices and high-speed interfaces. A U.S. government security clearance is mandatory.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive requirements decomposition.
  2. Lead trade studies and define architecture at the circuit card and/or sub-system level.
  3. Lead the design, analysis, test, and documentation of digital electronics circuit card assemblies including embedded processors, FPGAs, memories, and industry standard interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, and UART.
  4. Partner with ECAD drafters through stack up definition, pre/post-route simulation (SI/PI), layout, and routing activities.
  5. Plan and execute integration and verification activities in engineering laboratories.

Skills

Required

  • Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
  • Minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience
  • Significant design experience interfacing with complex embedded devices (microprocessors, FPGAs, memory, high-speed transceivers)
  • Robust experience maturing design concepts from the block diagram or requirements level to development of complete, verified digital designs
  • Expertise with a schematic capture/circuit board layout CAD package
  • Experience working with standard lab equipment for integration and verification testing of hardware designs

Nice to have

  • One or more advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major
  • Experience designing at the circuit card stack level to meet concerns of adjacent disciplines, such as thermal, structural, mechanical, reliability, and quality
  • Experience with embedded test techniques, design for test, design for manufacturing, and/or design margin analysis
  • Experience with a formal design process for circuit card assemblies
  • Proven ability to debug and resolve complex hardware issues during integration and qualification testing
  • Advanced knowledge of high-speed protocols, such as PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed memory interfaces
  • Siemens Xpedition: xDX Designer, xPCB Layout, and/or Hyperlynx signal/power integrity
  • Experience with complex, multi-lamination circuit card assemblies between 16 and 32 layers
  • Expertise with Xpedition's Constraint Editor System (CES), routing practices for high-speed signals, and guiding Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) personnel through PCB layout and technical drawing creation
  • Experience with FPGA code development or software
  • Experience with performing circuit card assembly-level architecture trades, and/or with system-level power architecture trades
  • Experience documenting technical topics and presenting to customers and senior leadership
  • Demonstrated ability to lead successful teams
  • Experience managing technical, cost, and schedule risks and opportunities
  • Experience with project management tools such as Earned Value and/or Agile Execution
  • Experience communicating and documenting technical topics and presenting to customers and management
  • Experience leading a program transition from development to production
  • Proposal development experience
  • Experience with intellectual property generation (patents & publications)
  • Demonstrated mentorship of junior engineers

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Active and existing security clearance required after day 1
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required
  • Significant design experience interfacing with complex embedded devices (microprocessors, FPGAs, memory, high-speed transceivers).
  • Robust experience maturing design concepts from the block diagram or requirements level to development of complete, verified digital designs.