Scientist, Electrical Engineer Digital Hardware Design

Job Title: Scientist, Electrical Engineer (Digital Hardware Design)

Job Code: 38126

Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Job Schedule: 9/80- employees work 9 out of 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

L3Harris is seeking a motivated Senior Hardware Engineer to design and deliver advanced, mission-critical digital circuit technology for military communications systems, including software-defined radio applications.

In this role, you will serve as a senior technical contributor, helping develop innovative digital hardware solutions for special operations and intelligence customers. You will work on complex national security challenges across areas such as threat deterrence, signals intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and data analytics. This position is part of a multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.

Essential Functions

• Provide hands-on technical expertise for digital hardware in communications systems programs.
• Support the development of innovative electrical engineering solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Develop circuit designs, requirements, design documentation, verification plans, procedures, and customer deliverables to meet program schedules.
• Lead and support cross-functional teams in system architecture, design, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Design custom circuit card assemblies using FPGAs, embedded processors, networking components, and other electronics for challenging environmental conditions.
• Apply knowledge of industry-standard interfaces such as 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, 10/100/1000BASE-T, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4, JESD, and PCIe.
• Perform schematic capture, simulation, analysis, PCB layout, and hardware testing.
• Contribute to algorithm development, implementation, system architecture, verification, and testing, with emphasis on military requirements.
• Support proposal efforts through technical baseline reviews and engineering input.
• Collaborate regularly with program leadership and cross-functional teams including software, systems, mechanical, and test engineering.
• Participate in customer and program technical reviews and provide status updates on assigned work.
• Travel up to 5% as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Electrical Engineering with 12 years of relevant experience;  Graduate degree with 10 years of related experience.  In lieu of a degree, 16 years of related experience.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Strong foundation in communications theory and electronic warfare.
• Ability to work independently or lead multidisciplinary teams in the development of communications systems and assemblies.
• Minimum of 8 years of circuit card assembly (CCA) and hardware design experience.
• Proficiency with Xilinx, Altera, or similar FPGA tools, and Siemens EDA (Mentor Graphics).
• Experience with high-speed communications and I/O design, including networking and isolation requirements.
• Hands-on experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, receivers, signal generators, BERTs, TDR, and similar test equipment.
• Knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, with the ability to support roadmaps that improve capability while reducing cost, size, weight, and power.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in hardware verification, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Git or ClearCase.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management tools such as Teamcenter.
• Familiarity with Confluence or similar collaboration tools.