Principal HWIL Electrical Engineer

About the role

The Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) Department in Huntsville, AL is a multi-discipline organization responsible for designing, building and integrating state of the art testing environments (flight simulators for missiles).

Responsibilities

• Work with weapon system designers to understand requirements, design solutions, integrate, and deploy the systems to help support tactical software development, testing, and delivery for missiles to the warfighter.
• Contribute to the completion of all stages of product development (CCA through systems level).
• Be responsible for technical, cost and schedule management of their assigned projects.
• Act, either as a part of the team or independently, to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of test products.

Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
• Electrical engineering design experience to include electronic design, troubleshooting, analysis, and test environments from the circuit card level up to a full system.
• Experience with electrical engineering design and analysis tools such as: Altium, DX Designer, Mentor Capital, Creo Schematic and/or Xilinx Vivado.
• Experience with test equipment, such as: Oscilloscopes, DMMs, Network Analyzers and/or Power Meters.
• Experience using schematic capture tools and interpreting schematics.

Qualifications

• Bid and proposal experience.
• A working knowledge of computer architecture and computer hardware optimization techniques.
• Ability to utilize existing designs as a starting point to interface with new units under test (UUTs) and UUT configurations when necessary.
• Experience with troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Practical knowledge of project management.
• Leading large multi-disciplinary teams to include tasking responsibility.
• Budget responsibility.

Benefits

Based on eligibility, relocation may be offered. RTX offers a comprehensive benefits package including 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.