Date Posted:
2025-09-23
Country:
United States of America
Location:
HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd
, Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA
Position Role Type:
Onsite
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.?
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Security Clearance:
DoD Clearance: Top Secret
Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers' toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.
We are currently seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer at Richardson, TX. As a critical team member and electronics architect, the Principal Electrical Engineer will design, develop, and integrate the most technologically advanced systems in the world. The Principal Electrical Engineer is a lead position responsible for clean sheet and upgrade electronic solutions. The Principal Electrical Engineer will work with other experienced engineers with extensive backgrounds in circuit card and firmware design, as well as mentoring less experienced engineers as they complete circuit card designs. The candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will have the ability to work self-guided yet collaboratively in a team environment.
What You Will Do:
Experience in designing digital and analog products including microprocessor systems, low-power supplies, communication subsystems.
Experience with circuit design, including schematic capture, power, FPGA resource utilization
Knowledge of or experience with PCB layout, board stack ups, via structures, grounding strategies, impedance matching, trace width calculations
Experience with signal integrity and designing for high-speed designs.
Familiarity with signal integrity, best practices and ability to coordinate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide and/or source the needed inputs for subject matter experts to run models
Experience with pre-placement of components and ability to coordinate with mechanical engineers to generation board outline files for circuit cards
Experience with Mixed Signal Design: One or more of the following. A/D Converters, Digital Down Converters, D/A Converters, Digital Waveform Generators, Mixed Signal CCAs, Mixed Signal Modules and Subsystems
Digital Hardware: One or more of the following. Subsystem/Module Digital Circuits, FPGA/ASICs, COTS Interfaces, Subsystem Development, VME/PCI interfaces Digital Systems, System Trades, Architecture, Embedded Processing
Ability to generate and communicate requirements and specifications for vendors to facilitate the quote and design of new hardware
Experience with new architecture development
Experience in industry circuit board design tools (Xpedition Enterprise preferred)
The ability to train and mentor early-career engineers
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
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
Qualifications We Prefer:
Recent experience with 3U VPX and/or SOSA hardware
Understanding of backplane topologies, slot and module profiles of 3U VPX card sets
Circuit board design with Xilinx and/or Altera FPGA/SoCs
Zynq, Kintex/Virtex Ultrascale and newer
TEMPEST design experience
Working knowledge of EMI/EMC standards for military applications.
Experience designing for Military Aircraft applications
Experience using ALM tools including Jira and Confluence
Experience working with industry standard toolsets for requirement capture and task management (e.g. DOORs, Microsoft Project)
Experience in developing test procedures and test fixtures
Ability to read, create, and review engineering drawings including schematics, assembly drawings and parts lists
RF design experience
Experience interfacing to RF circuitry and high-speed A/D D/A conversion
Experience with implementation of high-speed backplanes
Experience with Mentor Graphics tool suite
Proven analytical skills using in-circuit simulation (Matlab, LT Spice)
Knowledge of firmware development, design, and test using suitable toolsets (Xilinx Vivado, ModelSim)
Experience with CAM (Cost Account Management) duties
Ability to lead teams and report status to management
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What We Offer
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!?
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.
*Please ensure the role @type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.
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.
Regardless of your role @type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world - and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.
Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.
The salary range for this role is 101,000 USD - 203,000 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.
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