Senior Electrical Engineer - Hardware; Onsite

Senior Electrical Engineer - Hardware (Onsite)

Join the Collins Aerospace team as a Senior Electrical Engineer - Hardware (Onsite). This role is located in Cedar Rapids, IA, and involves designing and developing digital hardware for high-performance communication products such as software‑defined radios and data links, vital for national defense.

Location: HIA
32:
Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE, Cedar Rapids, IA,  USA

Date Posted:

Country: United States of America

Position Role Type: Onsite

U.S. Citizen or U.S. Person Requirement: Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. government‑issued security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required.

Security Clearance: DoD Clearance:
Secret

• Perform circuit card design lifecycle activities including requirements capture, schematic capture, design documentation, signal integrity analysis, creation of board stackup and routing instructions, coordination and review of printed wiring board layout, creation of test plans, root cause analysis, and integration.
• Design, document, verify, support, test and troubleshoot digital hardware for communication products using electrical engineering principles and techniques. Designs may include the use of FPGA, processors, and DDR memory components, and industry interfaces such as Ethernet, I2C, SPI, and UART.
• Collaborate with a multi‑discipline team of Engineers to develop proven hardware designs that meet system performance and operational specifications.
• Help deliver quality next‑generation hardware products to customers that meet the evolving environment. Meet deadlines and impact the role’s schedule directly.

• Become a subject matter expert in high‑speed digital design.
• Gain hands‑on experience with advanced communication/radio hardware in production.
• Broaden knowledge and build leadership opportunities, promotions, and direct customer interfacing.

• Typically requires a STEM degree and a minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or an advanced degree and a minimum of 3 years experience.
• Experience with electrical designs containing digital electronics such as processors, FPGAs, high‑speed transceivers, DDR, and flash memories.
• Experience with schematic capture of electrical circuit designs. Familiarity with a schematic capture tool (e.g., Siemens/Mentor Graphics Xpedition, Altium, Cadence Allegro, EAGLE, KiCAD).
• Experience generating Printed Wiring Board (PWB) layout constraint guidelines and overseeing the routing and layout of the circuit card design.

• Experience with signal integrity and timing analyses for robust circuit card designs.
• Hands‑on experience testing circuit card assemblies and performing design verification activities.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, including planning, tracking, and managing hardware development tasks in JIRA.
• Project management experience using Earned Value Management System (EVMS).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student loan repayment program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal,  protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning support
• Adoption assistance
• Autism benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan with up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You incentives and wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand and virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program
• Eligible for relocation
• And more!

Join a mission that stretches across the world. Collins Aerospace’s Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions. Your work will help ensure our customers succeed today while anticipating tomorrow’s needs.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

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