Manager, Electrical Engineering

About the role

The Manager, Electrical Engineering leads a multidisciplinary product development team responsible for the design, development, and delivery of embedded hardware systems for airborne telemetry, radio frequency (RF), secure communications, and flight-critical aerospace applications at L3Harris’s TRF Bristol site.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary product development team across Electrical, Firmware and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Software, and Mechanical Engineering.
• Direct product development activities from concept and architecture through design, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustainment.
• Provide technical oversight for embedded hardware development, including circuit design, power, analog and mixed-signal design, programmable logic, printed circuit board implementation, embedded interfaces, and mechanical packaging.
• Guide Hardware Description Language (HDL) development for programmable logic devices, including implementation, simulation, synthesis, verification, and integration into embedded systems.
• Avoid products not meeting technical, schedule, cost, quality, manufacturability, and supportability objectives.
• Lead or support formal engineering reviews, including System Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, and production readiness reviews.
• Support workforce forecasting, staffing plans, resource allocation, employee development, and short-term operational planning aligned with business and program needs.
• Promote disciplined engineering processes, lifecycle execution, digital engineering tools, and continuous improvement in design quality, documentation, and release consistency.
• Support engineering program reviews, staffing updates, basis of estimate inputs, proposal activities, and customer review readiness.

Requirements

• Minimum 9 years of prior related experience; or a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience with a graduate degree; or a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience without a degree.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in an engineering leadership role, such as engineering manager, team lead, functional lead, integrated product team lead, or project engineering lead.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting the design, development, integration, test, or qualification of embedded hardware, electronic assemblies, or other complex hardware systems.
• Experience in Electrical Engineering for hardware product development, including one or more of the following: power, analog, mixed-signal, digital hardware, programmable logic, printed circuit board design, or electronic subsystem integration.
• Experience with product development processes including requirements management, configuration control, design documentation, verification and validation, and release of engineering baselines.
• Experience leading or supporting formal technical reviews such as Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, or production readiness reviews.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior related experience; or a graduate degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in an engineering leadership role, such as engineering manager, team lead, functional lead, integrated product team lead, or project engineering lead.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting the design, development, integration, test, or qualification of embedded hardware, electronic assemblies, or other complex hardware systems.
• Experience in Electrical Engineering for hardware product development, including one or more of the following: power, analog, mixed-signal, digital hardware, programmable logic, printed circuit board design, or electronic subsystem integration.
• Experience with product development processes including requirements management, configuration control, design documentation, verification and validation, and release of engineering baselines.
• Experience leading or supporting formal technical reviews such as Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, Test Readiness Review, or production readiness reviews.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a United States Secret security clearance.

Skills

• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience leading embedded hardware product development for airborne, ruggedized, secure communications, telemetry, or radio frequency applications.
• Experience developing or integrating Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs, including Hardware Description Language (HDL) development, hardware and software integration, and timing closure using Static Timing Analysis (STA).
• Experience supporting qualification, environmental testing, and performance validation for ruggedized or airborne hardware.
• Familiarity with digital engineering environments, requirements management tools, and product lifecycle management systems.
• Experience supporting proposal efforts, Basis of Estimate (BOE) development, customer technical reviews, or new product introduction activities.
• Familiarity with communications security hardware, information assurance hardware, or National Security Agency Type 1 cryptographic systems.
• Project Management Professional or relevant engineering leadership certification.

Benefits

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.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

9/80 (employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off).