Senior Electrical Design Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted : 2025-09-08

Country :

United States of America

Location :

HIA32 : Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type : Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements :

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance : Secret - Current

The Mission Hardware team is seeking a determined and passionate Senior Electrical Design Engineer specializing in digital and high-speed processing designs that will be responsible for developing technical solutions to a wide range of complex problems related to the entire product life cycle, including proposal, design, manufacture, integration, test, and transition to production of various types of military ruggedized electronic equipment. We are looking for candidates willing to collaborate, innovate, and team with our engineers to generate and utilize today’s cutting-edge technology to design digital electronics circuits that implement video and digital signal processing, high-speed digital electronics, and configurable logic. The candidate will work with minimal direction or supervision while exercising considerable latitude in determining the technical objectives of the assignment.

Successful candidates should expect to be immersed in a fast-paced, team-based, and challenging technical environment where an engineer with talent and initiative can stand out and thrive. To view more on Mission Systems, click .

What YOU Will Do :

• Design, analysis, simulation, test, and integration of digital electronic modules and / or circuit card assemblies (CCAs)
• Circuit card design including hardware designs with processors, FPGAs, memory, power regulators, and industry interfaces, such as : PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, QSPI, JTAG, and UART.
• Requirements capture management and verification for small to medium electronic packaging circuit cards.
• Prepare and present project technical information to peers and internal / external customers
• Identify and address project problems (Root Cause) and recommend resolutions (Corrective Actions) to ensure the successful completion of projects
• Design tools experience with requirements capture, schematic capture, signal integrity and timing analysis (ex. DxDesigner, DOORS, and Hyperlynx) with digital / analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs for military applications
• Create Printed Wiring Board layouts
• Facilitates project tasks between cross-functional integrated product teams to ensure alignment with overall project objectives and team collaboration
• Perform hardware requirements decomposition, creation, tracing, and validation.

What YOU Will Learn :

Qualifications You Must Have :

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What We Offer

Some of our competitive benefits package includes :

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission 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.

The salary range for this role is 82,000 USD - 164,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education / training, and key skills.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.