Senior Electrical Engineer - Computing Products (Onsite)

RTX; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

3 weeks vacation

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan repayment

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

RTX seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer for the Computing Products Department in Cedar Rapids, IA. You will design circuit cards for avionics computers, troubleshoot hardware, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across Systems, Software, Mechanical, and Manufacturing.

The role requires hands-on testing, qualification work, and guiding junior engineers. In this onsite role, you will support the DPC‑2120 A2G program and related GGM products, with design-to-cost and manufacturability

Qualifications

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on electrical engineering troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with hardware requirements development and lab testing.

Responsibilities

• Design circuit cards for avionics computers.
• Attend review or planning meetings to collaborate with engineers.
• Troubleshoot circuit cards or whole computers in a lab environment.
• Design test solutions to prove design is compliant.
• Perform qualification testing and root-cause analysis of failures.
• Mentor less experienced engineers on the DPC product line.
• <10% travel as needed.

Skills

High-speed digital design

EMI control

Troubleshooting

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree (MS/PhD)

Tools

Schematic capture

PWB layout

Lab testing equipment

Job description

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market.

Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Computing Products Department within the Displays, Computing, Controls & Networking Directorate. This department is responsible for the development and sustainment of state‑of‑the‑art avionics hardware products including ruggedized mission computers, video processing modules, and network products used in commercial and military aircraft platforms.

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, this role is onsite. It supports all phases of the hardware development lifecycle—program pursuit, design, integration, verification, and factory transition. The selected candidate will collaborate closely with cross‑functional partners, including Systems, Software, Mechanical, Environmental Effects, Manufacturing/Operations, and Design‑to‑Cost teams, to ensure all product requirements are successfully achieved. Strong expertise in high‑speed digital circuit board design, EMI control, manufacturability, testability, and thermal management is essential. This role is specifically to DPC‑2120 A2G program and support of DPC and GGM products. The senior engineer will have responsibilities that include integration and qualification preparation and testing, collaborating with team leads (project engineering and design lead), support platform and equipment systems request for trouble‑shooting support and root causing failures that occur during testing.

What You Will Do:

• Designing Circuit Cards for Avionics Computers.
• Attend review or planning meetings to collaborate with other engineers on designs.
• Trouble‑shooting circuit cards or full computers design hardware in a lab environment.
• Designing test solutions to prove design is compliant.
• Qualification testing and root cause any failures of testing.
• Mentoring and delegating tasks to less experienced engineers working the DPC product line.
• <10% travel as needed.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
• Experience in an Electrical Engineering role.
• Hands‑on troubleshooting experience.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Hardware requirements development including working with systems and subsystems teams to determine meaningful and testable requirements for the design.
• Experience working with standard lab equipment for integration testing of hardware designs.
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and independently on assigned tasks.
• Schematic capture of digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs.
• Printed board (PWB) layout expertise.
• Interfacing with complex embedded devices (microprocessors, graphics processors, memory).
• Digital logic device development (including FPGA and ASIC development).
• Formal qualification experience (preferred DO‑160 or MIL‑STD‑810/MIL‑STD‑461 standards).
• Understanding of Design to Cost (DTC+), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT).

What We Offer:

• 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, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Carrot Health to hormonal health, fertility, and family building
• 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!

The salary range for this role is 86,800 USD - 165,200 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short‑term and/or long‑term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

Privacy Policy and Terms: Click on this link to read the Policy and Terms. RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry‑leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity.

The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products. At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

If so, we invite you to join our ranks and create the next generation of aerospace technologies.

Together, we will nurture an engineering culture that values intellectual curiosity, risk takers and integrity.

A place where we will challenge ourselves, our teams, and the status quo and where we will work to find a way – the right way – to achieve what others can only dream of.