Principal Electrical Engineering Team Lead - Computing Solutions

Principal Electrical Engineer

The Computing Solutions Department (CSD) within Displays, Computing, and Networking (DCN) is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to support the development of next-generation avionics computing platforms. Our platforms incorporate airborne electronic hardware such as FPGAs, ASICs, and MPSoCs, and interface with key avionics protocols including ARINC 429, Ethernet, AFDX, PCIe, CAN, RS-232, DDR, I2C, and SPI.

This role will contribute by leading a Hardware engineering team to delivering a product-line computing platform, associated certification plans, and lifecycle artifacts that enable reuse across future avionics solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Lead circuit card and sub-level module development, product certification, product transition, and product sustainment over the life cycle of the design.
• Serve as the Certification Focal, owning the Plan for Hardware Aspects of Certification (PHAC) as well as hardware development and verification plans
• Execute solutions with a product-line focus to maximize reuse of lifecycle artifacts.
• Drive technical issue resolution, risk identification, and mitigation planning.
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams (EE, ME, FPGA, Systems, Manufacturing, Test) through development, integration, verification and project design reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR).

What You Will Learn:

• Advanced SoC Integration:
  Gain expertise in integrating multi-core processors and the associated implications to design and certification
• Regulatory Leadership:
  Develop the skills to guide a team through the rigorous Stage of Involvement (SOI) audit process, becoming a subject matter expert in modern certification guidance.
• Master Hardware Architecting:
  Advance from a designer to a high-level Hardware Architect

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
• Hardware domain knowledge of development and verification lifecycle activities and production of the associated artifacts.
• Proven design experience leading CCA design from concept through production:
  Includes working with schematic capture and PCB layout tools, demonstrated knowledge of analog, digital and mixed signal design principles, experience with PCB layout constraints.
• Experience conducting and participating in formal design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Familiarity with industry standards such as IPC-2221, IPC-A-610, MIL-STD-461/810/704, DO-160, or similar.
• Ability to interpret and decompose system-level requirements into hardware design requirements.
• Experience providing technical leadership to a small engineering team (e.g., task direction, mentoring, reviewing work products, coordinating development activities).

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Understanding and application of certification objectives (DO-254, AC 20-152A) including COTS Device Assessments and managing complex component errata.
• Understanding of Design to Cost (DTC+), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT)
• Knowledge of MPSoC-based architectures and board-level integration of heterogeneous processing elements (e.g., ARM cores, FPGA fabric, high-speed I/O).
• Experience establishing hardware reference architectures and developing product-line solutions that enable reuse, scalability, and consistent design patterns across multiple platforms.

What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• 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 disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy 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
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!