Senior Electrical Engineer Avionics Hardware (Onsite FL)

Collins Aerospace; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 86,800 - 165,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vacation time

401(k) plan with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment Program

Life insurance

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Melbourne, Florida to lead complex hardware design across sustaining and new development programs. You will own schematics, board layouts, and hardware qualification while collaborating with mechanical, systems, and manufacturing teams.

This onsite role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-domain collaboration, and adherence to aviation qualification standards within a dynamic aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Requires STEM degree with 5+ years experience or advanced degree with 3+ years experience.
• Must be a U.S. Person – military contract requirement.
• Proven electrical design engineering experience.
• Ability to generate schematics and board layouts.
• Experience with embedded processors and RF systems.
• Hands-on debugging and testing complex electrical hardware.
• Expertise in at least one electrical hardware discipline (digital/analog/mixed-signal/power/RF).

Responsibilities

• Interpret, generate, and update complex electrical schematics, layouts, and drawings.
• Develop and document hardware requirement changes and baselines.
• Design, analyze, test, qualify, integrate, and document high‑complexity hardware across multiple ECNs.
• Collaborate with mechanical, systems, and manufacturing engineering.
• Apply Collins processes and tools to drive quality and customer satisfaction.
• Support integration, pre‑qualification, and qualification testing for moderate‑complexity products.
• Provide technical leadership and troubleshoot production issues.
• Contribute to engineering estimates and bid/schedule development.
• Act as SME in at least one hardware domain with broad capabilities across areas.

Skills

Electrical design

Schematic capture

RF systems

Embedded processors

Debugging hardware

Hardware qualification

Technical leadership

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Agile

JIRA

Git

Subversion

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Melbourne, Florida to lead complex hardware design across sustaining and new development programs. You will own schematics, board layouts, and hardware qualification while collaborating with mechanical, systems, and manufacturing teams.

This onsite role emphasizes technical leadership, cross-domain collaboration, and adherence to aviation qualification standards within a dynamic aerospace environment.