Manager, Electrical Engineering

Harris Geospatial Solutions; Bristol Township, Northern (Bucks County, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Manager of Electrical Engineering (Product Development) to lead a multidisciplinary team at the Bristol, PA site. You will oversee hardware development for airborne telemetry, RF, secure communications, and flight-critical aerospace applications, guiding architecture, HDL work, and cross-functional program execution.

The role emphasizes leadership, workforce planning, design verification, and readiness reviews to ensure on-time, within-cost delivery of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in an engineering leadership role.
• Experience with embedded hardware design and FPGA/HDL.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary product development team across Electrical, Firmware, FPGA, Software, and Mechanical Engineering.
• Direct product development from concept through design, verification, and production readiness.
• Provide technical oversight for embedded hardware including circuit design, power, analog/mixed-signal, PCB, and packaging.
• Guide HDL development for programmable logic devices and integration into embedded systems.
• Ensure alignment with schedule, cost, quality, manufacturability, and supportability objectives.
• Lead or support formal engineering reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR, etc.).
• Manage requirements, configuration control, and release of engineering baselines and docs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support program execution and transition to production.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Embedded hardware

FPGA/HDL

Program management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Graduate degree

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Manager, Electrical Engineering (Product Development)

Job Code: 43190

Job Location: Bristol, Pennsylvania

Job Schedule: 9/80 (employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off)

Job Description:

The Manager, Electrical Engineering leads a multidisciplinary product development team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of embedded hardware systems for airborne telemetry, radio frequency (RF), secure communications, and flight‑critical aerospace applications at L3Harris’s TRF Bristol site. This role is accountable for leading people, workforce planning, and disciplined execution of product development activities to ensure hardware meets technical, schedule, cost, quality, cybersecurity, and customer requirements. The position works across engineering and program functions to strengthen embedded hardware architecture, programmable logic development, very‑high‑speed integrated circuit hardware description language (VHDL) implementation, hardware integration, test, and technical review readiness. The successful candidate will join a collaborative engineering organization focused on delivering high‑reliability, ruggedized solutions for United States and allied aerospace and defense platforms.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary product development team across Electrical, Firmware and Field‑Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Software, and Mechanical Engineering.
• Direct product development activities from concept and architecture through design, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustainment.
• Provide technical oversight for embedded hardware development, including circuit design, power, analog and mixed‑signal design, programmable logic, printed circuit board implementation, embedded interfaces, and mechanical packaging.
• Guide Hardware Description Language (HDL) development for programmable logic devices, including implementation, simulation, synthesis, verification, and integration into embedded systems
• Ensure products are developed in alignment with technical, schedule, cost, quality, manufacturability, and supportability objectives.
• Lead or support formal engineering reviews, including System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, and production readiness reviews.
• Oversee requirements development, allocation, interface definition, traceability, configuration control, and release of controlled engineering baselines and design documentation.
• Partner with Project Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Test Engineering, and other functional teams to support integrated program execution and transition to production.
• Support workforce forecasting, staffing plans, resource allocation, employee development, and short‑term operational planning aligned with business and program needs.
• Promote disciplined engineering processes, lifecycle execution, digital engineering tools, and continuous improvement in design quality, documentation, and release consistency.
• Support engineering program reviews, staffing updates, basis of estimate inputs, proposal activities, and customer review readiness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior related experience; or a graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in an engineering leadership role, such as engineering manager, team lead, functional lead, integrated product team lead, or project engineering lead.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting the design, development, integration, test, or qualification of embedded hardware, electronic assemblies, or other complex hardware systems.
• Experience in Electrical Engineering for hardware product development, including one or more of the following: power, analog, mixed‑signal, digital hardware, programmable logic, printed circuit board design, or electronic subsystem integration.
• Experience with product development processes including requirements management, configuration control, design documentation, verification and validation, and release of engineering baselines.
• Experience leading or supporting formal technical reviews such as Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, or production readiness reviews.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Secret security clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience leading embedded hardware product development for airborne, ruggedized, secure communications, telemetry, or radio frequency applications.
• Experience developing or integrating Field‑Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs, including Hardware Description Language (HDL) development, hardware and software integration, and timing closure using Static Timing Analysis (STA).
• Experience supporting qualification, environmental testing, and performance validation for ruggedized or airborne hardware.
• Familiarity with digital engineering environments, requirements management tools, and product lifecycle management systems.
• Experience supporting proposal efforts, Basis of Estimate (BOE) development, customer technical reviews, or new product introduction activities.
• Familiarity with communications security hardware, information assurance hardware, or National Security Agency Type 1 cryptographic systems.
• Project Management Professional or relevant engineering leadership certification.

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