Senior Electrical Engineer: Digital Hardware Design

Senior Digital Hardware Design Engineer

The Multi-Product Power & Digital (MPD) department designs FPGAs, circuit cards, and electronics subassemblies for a range of products including missiles/effectors, radars, and electronic warfare systems. The team leverages digital, analog, and power design skills to provide support throughout the product lifecycle from architecture and design through production and sustainment.

The MPD department is seeking a Senior Digital Hardware Design Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will leverage advanced technologies to create cutting-edge solutions for sensor and effector products. You will partner with experienced, multidisciplinary teams to define requirements, develop architectures, execute detailed design and simulations, and perform integration and verification tasks. You will document your designs within the appropriate configuration management tools and provide comprehensive engineering support throughout the product lifecycle.

This position is an onsite role, located in Fort Wayne, IN.

What You Will Do

Assist with requirements decomposition and trade studies.

Define architecture at the circuit card level.

Lead the design, analysis, test, and documentation of digital electronics circuit card assemblies including embedded processors, FPGAs, memories, and industry standard interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, and UART.

Partner with ECAD drafters through stackup definition, pre/post-route simulation (SI/PI), layout, and routing activities.

Plan and execute integration and verification activities in engineering laboratories.

Provide product test and troubleshoot support. Support root cause failure investigations.

Define schedules for circuit card level tasking and drive execution to the planned budget and schedule.

Lead individual designs and/or small teams.

Operate with minimal oversight from manager.

Support internal and external technical reviews.

Engage in knowledge transfer activities and mentorship of junior engineers.

Qualifications You Must Have

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience

Design, analysis, simulation, and/or test experience with digital electronic circuit designs including processors, FPGAs, high-speed transceivers, DDR, and flash memories.

Experience maturing design concepts from the block diagram or requirements level to development of complete, verified digital designs.

Expertise with a schematic capture/circuit board layout CAD package.

Experience working with standard lab equipment for integration and verification testing of hardware designs.

Qualifications We Prefer

One or more advanced degrees in Electrical Engineering or a related Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) major. A suitable degree may be counted as 2 years of work experience.

Experience with embedded test techniques, design for test, design for manufacturing, and/or design margin analysis

Experience with a formal design process for circuit card assemblies.

Ability to debug and resolve hardware issues during integration and qualification testing.

General knowledge of high-speed protocols, such as PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed memory interfaces.

Siemens Xpedition: xDX Designer, xPCB Layout, and/or Hyperlynx signal/power integrity.

Experience with complex circuit card assemblies between 16 and 32 layers

Experience with Xpedition's Constraint Editor System (CES) and guiding Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) personnel through PCB layout and technical drawing creation.

Knowledge of software and/or FPGA code development

Experience documenting technical topics and presenting to various levels of leadership.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams to achieve schedule, budget and technical commitments.

Experience with project management tools such as Earned Value and/or Agile Execution.

Proposal development experience.

What We Offer

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.