Title:  Lead, Electrical/Hardware Engineer - PCB

Job Title: Lead, Electrical/Hardware Engineer - PCB

Job Code: 23611
Job Location: Londonderry, NH 
Job Schedule: 9/80 - Employee works 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and has every other Friday off.

Job Description:

L3Harris Integrated Vision Solutions Londonderry, a leading designer and manufacturer of laser, night vision, and electro-optic devices is seeking a lead Electrical Engineer to pursue a career in a fast-paced company where new designs become production reality. As a member of our product development staff, you will lead and support electrical teams in the creation of new technology initiatives and advancements. A variety of Electrical Engineering and leadership skills, specifically in the development of high-technology weapon-mounted, helmet-mounted, and hand-held military products, will be required to bring projects from concept to production. 

Essential Functions:

• Subject matter expert with comprehensive knowledge of job area.
• Lead and/or manage large, complex project initiatives of substantial importance to the organization, with minimal oversight or direction.
• Lead and support electrical design teams in the development of new products.
• Communicate inside and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices, processes, and approaches. Make significant improvements to processes, systems, or products.
• Implement operational plans that have direct impact on department goals and have measurable impact on business or functional results.
• Direct and conduct component, subsystem, and system level design trades and analyses.
• Lead and perform rapid prototyping and assembly, in support of concept demonstration hardware.
• Translate product and system requirements into electrical requirements and specifications to be used for design, development, and design verification.
• Expertise in electrical/electronic analog and digital circuit design, including power supply and power conversion, front-end sensor circuits, ADC and DAC, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and FPGAs.
• A demonstrable background in designing high reliability analog and digital electronics, including precision instrumentation amplifier frontends and mixed signal interfaces.
• Experience in designing high efficiency power conversion circuits for low power, battery operated systems.
• Experience with EMI/EMC best design practices.
• Knowledge of PCB layout requirements, packaging tradeoffs, and testing of low-noise, mixed-mode circuitry, preferably for electro/optical applications.
• Design electronic modules, including rigid and flexible PCBAs and related interconnects.
• Utilize ECAD/CAE software tools in the design and analysis of electrical and electronic modules.
• Design, development, integration, and test of electrical/electronic, electro-mechanical, and electro-optical components, subsystems, and systems.
• Collaborate with systems, mechanical, optical, software / firmware, and manufacturing engineering staff.
• Design for manufacturing, test, power, size, weight, and DTUPC project requirements.
• Design for high reliability and harsh MIL-STD environments, including shock/vibration, extreme temperatures, and immersion.
• Work with PCB designers to create low-noise, high-reliability board designs.
• Electrical/electronic module and system design and analysis; including circuit analysis, modeling, simulation, and timing analysis.
• Development of detailed design documentation.
• Lead and participate in design reviews.
• Conduct design analysis and testing to prove design meets requirements, including EMC testing.
• Proficiency with laboratory instrumentation and data collection for performance analysis and debug/troubleshooting. Able to do data analysis, calculations, generate graphs/diagrams, and write reports.
• Post-design and troubleshooting skills with solid hands-on lab experience using oscilloscopes, logic/spectrum analyzers, and other test equipment required.
• Lead and support root cause and corrective action (RCCA) teams in the resolution of technical issues.
• Transition new designs and technologies to production.
• Support sustaining electrical engineering for qualified production designs.
• Generate and/or process engineering change orders (ECOs) as required.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written), collaboration, time management, organizational skills, and presentation skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelors or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 8 years of experience developing electrical engineering hardware within the defense, aerospace, or medical product fields.
• An excellent understanding of mechanical, optical, software / firmware, and digital requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of project management.
• EE-specific software experience:
  • ECAD: Siemens Cadence OrCAD Capture CIS, Allegro.
  • PSPICE circuit simulation.
• FPGA experience.
• Strong Experience with RF applications and electronics.
• Strong Experience with task scoping, prioritization, and execution to project schedules and milestones.
• Strong Experience with SOPs, process control, and standardization of work output.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language.