Specialist, CCA Design Engineer

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, 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 Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs.

The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Title : Specialist, CCA Design Engineer

Job Code : 11490

Job Location : Salt Lake City, UT

Work Schedule : 9x80

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 RF and high-speed digital components, commercially available chipsets, and embedded processors.
• Product Design : Schematic Capture, Simulations, PCB analysis and layout.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience.

In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s (Master’s preferred) degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• CCA and Hardware Design experience
• 4 years’ experience with hardware verification, schematic capture, PCB Layout
• Familiar with lab test equipmen
• Experience design Circuit Cards for use in Electronic Warfare Environments.
• Experience leading a team of CCA designers.
• Experience tracking and reporting EVMS (Earned Value Management System) as a CAM (Cost Account Management)
• Experience using JIRA to track and monitor CCA design activities.
• Experience with the C# programming language and using the .NET framework to design CCA debug tests.
• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.
• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git / ClearCase.
• Familiarity with Confluence or other information sharing tools.
30+ days ago