Lead, Electrical Engineering - Digital Hardware

About L3Harris Technologies:

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 air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue, 48,000 employees and customers in more than 100 countries. L3Harris.com

Job Tile: Lead, Electrical Engineering - Digital Hardware

Job Code: 41862

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Schedule: 9/80 (Employees work 80 hours over 9 days and have every other Friday off)

Work Arrangement: On-Site

Job Description

L3Harris is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer - Digital Hardware to join our team in Palm Bay, FL. In this role, you will support the design and development of advanced space-qualified digital hardware for mission-critical applications. This is an opportunity to contribute to innovative spacecraft and payload digital solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment where concepts move into production reality.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in spacecraft electrical digital subsystem design, including digital architecture development, circuit simulation, detailed analysis, hardware verification, and cross-functional collaboration. This position will play a key role in supporting current and future programs, internal research and development efforts, and strategic growth initiatives.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the design and development of advanced digital and mixed-signal hardware using sound electrical engineering principles and best practices.
• Support all phases of hardware development, including requirements analysis, architecture definition, detailed design, schematic capture, simulation, documentation, manufacturing, integration, and verification.

• Translate customer and system-level requirements into detailed electrical specifications and power architectures while balancing technical, cost, and
• Design and analyze digital and mixed-signal circuit topologies, including:
• Processor and microcontroller-based circuits
• FPGA, CPLD, and digital array designs
• Memory and storage interfaces
• ADC and DAC interface circuits
• High-speed digital communication interfaces
• Clock generation and distribution circuits
• Data acquisition and control circuits
• Mixed-signal interface circuits
• Reset, monitoring, and supervisory circuits
• Perform detailed analysis of digital circuits for:
• Timing and margin
• Thermal performance
• Signal integrity
• Power integrity
• Radiation effects
• EMI/EMC
• Component derating

• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues at the component, board, module, payload, and system levels.
• Use laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, source meters, electronic loads, signal generators, multimeters, and DC power supplies to validate designs and investigate issues.
• Conduct trade studies and develop conceptual digital solutions in support of proposals, IRAD, and new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including systems, firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program leadership.
• Evaluate component tolerances and environmental impacts to ensure robust design margins for high-reliability applications in harsh operating environments.
• Support risk reduction and mitigation activities related to obsolescence, cost, producibility, and long-lead materials.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or another relevant STEM field

  or

• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience
• Experience designing and developing digital hardware systems
• Experience with high-speed or dense processing hardware architectures
• Experience with hardware integration, verification, and debug
• Experience working in a collaborative engineering development environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience with mission definition, concept generation, trade studies, preliminary and final design, component selection, integration, test support, materials selection, and design documentation
• Experience developing qualified deliverable power hardware for space, aerospace, defense, medical, or other mission-critical applications
• Experience working with manufacturing and production teams in a program environment
• Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Review Boards (FRB)
• Experience presenting technical material to program leadership, customers, and review boards
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and leadership levels
• Experience serving as a subcontract technical representative, including supplier evaluation, statement of work development, and technical oversight of external deliverables
• Experience with digital hardware design for phased array antenna systems, including beamforming control, high-speed data conversion, timing and synchronization, RF control interfaces, and mixed-signal circuit card assembly integration.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas including:
• Space-based hardware design
• High-speed digital design
• FPGA-based systems
• Processor and memory subsystem design
• DSP-based hardware
• Networking hardware
• Mixed-signal electronics
• Experience designing, integrating, and analyzing high-speed electrical and optical interfaces and protocols, including:
• 10/25 Gb Ethernet
• PCI Express Gen 2/3/4/5
• Electrical-to-optical conversion
• Optical-to-electrical conversion
• Fiber-optic transceiver integration
• Experience with ECAD and analysis tools including:
• LTSpice
• PSpice
• Cadence
• Siemens Xpedition
• Hyperlynx 25.10
• Experience integrating firmware/software with hardware in lab and system environments
• MATLAB, Python, or similar programming experience for modeling, analysis, and automation

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.