Principal Hardware Design Engineer (onsite)

Principal Electrical Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Electrical Engineer to join the Computing Products Hardware Department within the Displays, Computing & Networking Directorate. Our team develops advanced hardware solutions for a wide range of military platforms, including tankers, transport aircraft, and helicopters. This role supports all phases of the hardware development lifecycle—program pursuit, requirements capture, 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.

What You Will Do:

• Mission computers
• Small form factor Multi-Function Displays
• Data Transfer Units and Network Attached Storage
• Processing resources (PowerPC, Intel, and ARM processors)
• Avionics I/O (Ethernet, ARINC 429, MIL-STD 1553, PCIe)

The candidate is expected to contribute throughout the full product development cycle in the following areas:

• Top level hardware product design and requirements capture
• Development and verification of digital and mixed signal hardware designs
• Oversight of Printed Wire Board (PWB) layout
• Integration and design verification
• Support to qualification and factory transition
• 10% travel as needed.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
• Familiarity with standard lab equipment.
• Experience with PWB layout.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Ability to work collaboratively with team members and independently on assigned tasks.
• Ability to work with systems and subsystems groups to determine meaningful and testable requirements for the design.
• PWB layout of PCI express
• Processor board (PPC, Intel, and ARM) design
• 2D and 3D graphics engines
• Video interfaces (SMPTE, ARINC 818)
• Lighting protection circuits and testing
• Hardware and RTOS integration
• Fiber optic transceivers
• DO-160 or MIL-STD-810/MIL-STD-461 qualification
• FPGA development

What We Offer:

Benefits:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:

• 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
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• 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!

This role may be eligible for relocation.

Avionics delivers advanced cockpit displays, vision systems, and comprehensive digital solutions for global government, commercial and business aviation customers. We provide connectivity and managed data services to ensure safety and seamless communication for passengers, crews, and militaries, from aircraft and airports to air traffic management. Join us in creating solutions that connect the world, one flight at a time. Start your application today.

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.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.