Electrical Engineer (Harness Design)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and integrate electrical harness systems for complex hardware platforms.
• Investigate technical requirements and develop harness solutions that support product and system objectives.
• Research and select connectors, backshells, contacts, wire, shielding, and cable constructions appropriate for environmental and performance requirements.
• Create harness block diagrams, wire interconnect diagrams, and production documentation.
• Participate in design reviews and provide input on electrical architecture, harness routing, component selection, and system integration decisions.
• Create harness assembly instructions and test procedures using industry standards and best practices.
• Support electrical, mechanical, software, quality, and product teams in defining system-level electrical requirements.
• Evaluate power distribution, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, and electrical interconnect architectures.
• Support multiple programs simultaneously across various stages of development, testing, and production.
• Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new product development, deployments, and customer-operated hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-7+ years of experience designing electrical harness systems for aerospace, military, industrial, commercial, or other ruggedized applications.
• Experience working directly with harness manufacturers to deliver highly reliable production hardware.
• Experience owning electrical wiring and interconnect systems, including power distribution, grounding, shielding, and signal integrity.
• Understanding of system-level electrical requirements including voltage, current, bandwidth, redundancy, and EMI/EMC performance.
• Experience performing trade studies involving wire gauge selection, shielding strategies, connector selection, and topology decisions.
• Ability to identify and mitigate electrical risks including voltage drop, crosstalk, EMI susceptibility, and thermal effects.
• Familiarity with communication interfaces like CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, RS-232, and MIL-STD-1553.
• Strong understanding of EMI/EMC principles and electrical interface design.
• Understanding of SWaP considerations for power, networking, and communication systems.
• Experience reading and developing wire interconnect diagrams and harness documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Experience developing 3D routed harness designs using NX Cabling, Siemens Capital Harness, or similar tools (preferred).
• Experience with 3D harness routing in NX, CATIA, CREO, Siemens Capital, or comparable CAD environments (preferred).
• Experience creating and interpreting 2D formboard drawings for manufacturing (preferred).
• Experience supporting the transition of harness designs into production environments (preferred).
• Ability to obtain & maintain a secret clearance.