Scientist, Electrical Engineer: Digital/Hardware (Secret Clearance)

L3Harris; Palm Bay (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology innovator is seeking a highly skilled Scientist, Electrical Engineer specializing in Digital Hardware for its Palm Bay location. The role focuses on developing digital/mixed-signal circuit solutions for advanced defense and commercial technologies. Candidates should have significant engineering experience and an active security clearance, with responsibilities ranging from circuit design to team leadership and performance validation.

Qualifications

• 12 years relevant experience or 10 years with a Master's.
• Active secret clearance required.
• Experience with Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design process.

Responsibilities

• Develop custom digital/mixed-signal circuits for various systems.
• Lead designer team in generating digital CCA design solutions.
• Integrate and test digital CCA circuits for performance.

Skills

Digital Circuit Design

FPGA Design

Mixed-Signal Circuit Design

System Integration

Team Leadership

Technical Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Mentor Graphics

Cadence

Xilinx

Altera Tool Suites

Job description

Scientist, Electrical Engineer: Digital/Hardware (Secret Clearance)

Pay Competitive

Location Palm Bay/Florida

Employment type Full-Time

Job Description

Req#: SAS20231104-99493 Description:

Job Title: Scientist, Electrical Engineer – Digital Hardware

Job Code: SAS20231104-99493

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Description:

L3Harris is seeking a self-motivated Electrical Hardware engineer to join our embedded systems development team to deliver mission critical solutions for a variety of customers at our Palm Bay, FL location. This position will focus primarily on the development of custom Digital/Mixed-Signal circuit designs, Digital Architecture concepts for advanced Space and Intel & Cyber Systems, and Bids & Proposals for the design and integration of complex Digital and Mixed Signal HW. This role will require Technical and Integrated Product team leadership skills as well as mentorship capabilities for early in career engineers.

Essential Functions:

• Understand the requirements and architect a digital CCA solution against those requirements including the use of DSP, Microcontroller, FPGA, ASIC, CPLD, ADC, DAC, Point of Load (POL), SERDES, Serial (I2C, SPI, etc), and volatile/non-volatile memory (DDRx, SRAM, ROM, Flash, etc) components
• Simulate the digital CCA circuits to verify performance, then integrate and test the CCA into the higher level assembly (Signal Integrity simulation)
• Lead a team of designers in generating the digital CCA design solutions
• Perform Digital circuit design and hardware engineering at the component level in support of phased array antennas and embedded systems
• Work closely with Power, Analog, Firmware, RF, mechanical, and system/software engineering to meet challenging performance requirements
• Work with customers to translate mission requirements to working concepts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 12 years of relevant electrical engineering experience, OR, Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 10 years of relevant electrical engineering experience
• Experience architecting digital CCA solutions
• Experience with Circuit Card Assembly (CCA) design process
• Experience with requirements generation, preliminary design, peer reviews, detailed design, test plan generation, and integration and test
• Active secret clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active Top Secret clearance is highly preferred
• Perform schematic capture and printed circuit board design work using ECAD tools such as Mentor Graphics, Cadence or similar
• Experience with power supply and digital hardware design to in support of embedded systems
• Experience with programmable logic devices such as CPLDs or FPGAs and familiarity with a variety of embedded processors
• Thorough understanding of VHDL, the FPGA design process and the tools used to generate the FPGA designs
• Experience with high speed memory and network interfaces and protocols is desired
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to work and communicate effectively within a development group is desired
• Ability to work in a team environment and negotiate solutions with Hardware / Software Engineering and Systems Engineering is preferred
• Proficiency with Xilinx, Altera Tool Suites (VHDL, Synthesis, Place and Route, Simulation, Timing Analysis), is desired

About the company

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.

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