Product Development Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · mckinney, TX +1 · Engineering

Product Development Engineer role focused on optimizing electronic hardware designs for producibility, specifically for Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs). Responsibilities include guiding design decisions, supplier support, mentoring, and ensuring adherence to IPC specifications, with a strong emphasis on manufacturability and production lifecycle integration. Requires a Bachelor's in STEM and 8 years of relevant experience, with a mandatory US security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for hosting and facilitating design reviews and collaborating with a multi-disciplined design team which takes Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) designs from inception to manufacturing.
  2. Supplier support includes; travel for onsite support, enable efficient communication between RTX stakeholders and suppliers, disposition supplier requests and manufacturing defects, review supplier data and lessons learned to ensure product excellence and continual improvement, and help standup circuit card assembly testing at a supplier.
  3. Mentoring teammates on industry knowledge of circuit card assembly manufacturing and IPC specs.
  4. Drive design, procurement and build schedule to meet program need dates.
  5. Generate drawing notes and review Technical Data Package (TDP) to ensure adherence to IPC specs.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)
  • 8 years of prior relevant experience
  • PCB manufacturing
  • Circuit card assembly
  • Understanding of IPC and MIL specifications and design guides
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
  • US Citizenship

Nice to have

  • Detailed Circuit Card Assembly process knowledge
  • drive the component placement, component selection and material selection and have a positive effect on CCA manufacturability
  • achieving alignment and collaboration between the various disciplines
  • project coordination and task management
  • plan projects, with timely engagement of related functions to ensure effective balance of risk and rigor throughout the development process

What the JD emphasized

  • Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date
  • IPC and MIL specifications and design guides