Sr. Specialist, Digital Hardware Design Engineer

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in Salt Lake City seeks a Sr Hardware Design Engineer to design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications, integrating high-speed digital components with embedded processors.

You will work on RF and digital circuits, perform schematic capture and PCB layout, and participate in design reviews and manufacturing transitions in a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6+ years of relevant experience; graduate degree with 4+ years.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Document designs from requirements, testing procedures and bill of materials.
• Perform detailed hardware measurements and debug at a hardware level.
• Create custom circuit cards using FPGAs, embedded processors, networking components.
• Characterize hardware across diverse environmental conditions.
• Use interfaces such as 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, PCIe, SDRAM, DDR3/DDR4.
• Support transition of hardware to manufacturing testing.
• Contribute to design reviews and system integration.

Skills

Hardware design

Embedded processors

FPGA design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Graduate Degree

Tools

Mentor Graphics

Git

ClearCase

Confluence

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: Sr Specialist, Hardware Design Engineer

Job Code: 43062

Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80- Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

We are seeking an ambitious hardware engineer to help us design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications. As a member of our team, you’ll help us build groundbreaking digital and RF circuits for the special operations and intelligence communities to address challenging national security problems and enable planning and decision making in domains as diverse as active threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and applied data analytics. You’ll join a multidisciplinary team of engineers who believe in fostering an open, collaborative work environment to solve complex problems.

As a Hardware Design Engineer, you will assist in the development of communications systems through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercially available chipsets, and embedded processors. Product Design: Schematic Capture, Simulations, PCB analysis and layout.

Essential Functions:

• Document your designs from requirements, testing procedures and bill of material.
• Perform detailed performance and functional measurements and debug at a hardware level.
• Create custom Circuit Cards, utilizing FPGAs, Embedded Processors, networking components, and other electronic components.
• Performance characterization of hardware over a wide variety environment condition.
• Use Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4 JESD, PCIe, 1000BASE-T).
• Support test engineering with transition of hardware to manufacturing testing.
• Contribute to design review, system integration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Master’s Degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with CCA and Hardware Design experience.
• Familiar with lab test equipment.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience with hardware verification, schematic capture, PCB Layout.
• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Experience with Mentor Graphic’s tools is preferred.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/ClearCase.
• Familiarity with Confluence or other information sharing tools.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

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