Date Posted:2026-11-05
Country:United States of America
Location:US-IA-CEDAR RAPIDS-193 ~ 1120 Collins Rd NE ~ BLDG193
Position Role Type:Onsite
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Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required
Security Clearance Status: Not Required
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Computing Products Department within the Displays, Computing, Controls & Networking Directorate. This department is responsible for the development and sustainment of state-of-the-art avionics hardware products including ruggedized mission computers, video processing modules, and network products used in commercial and military aircraft platforms. This role is onsite, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
This role supports all phases of the hardware development lifecycle-program pursuit, design, integration, verification, and factory transition.
The selected candidate will collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, including Systems, Software, Mechanical, Environmental Effects, Manufacturing/Operations, and Design-to-Cost teams, to ensure all product requirements are successfully achieved. Strong expertise in high-speed digital circuit board design, EMI control, manufacturability, testability, and thermal management is essential.
This role is specifically to DPC-2120 A2G program and support of DPC and GGM products. The senior engineer will have responsibilities that include integration and qual preparation and testing, collaborating with team leads (project engineering and design lead), support platform and equipment systems request for trouble-shooting support and root causing failures that occur during testing
What You Will Do:- Designing Circuit Cards for Avionics Computers.
- Attend review or planning meetings to collaborate with other engineers on designs.
- Trouble-shooting circuit cards or full computers design hardware in a lab environment.
- Designing test solutions to prove design is compliant.
- Qualification testing and root cause any failures of testing.
- Mentoring and delegating tasks to less experienced engineers working the DPC product line.
Qualifications You Must Have:- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
- Experience in an Electrical Engineering role.
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience.
Qualifications We Prefer:- Hardware requirements development including working with systems and subsystems teams to determine meaningful and testable requirements for the design.
- Experience working with standard lab equipment for integration testing of hardware designs.
- Ability to work collaboratively with team members and independently on assigned tasks.
- Schematic capture of digital/analog mixed signal electrical circuit designs.
- Printed board (PWB) layout expertise.
- Interfacing with complex embedded devices (microprocessors, graphics processors, memory).
- Digital logic device development (including FPGA and ASIC development).
- Formal qualification experience (preferred DO-160 or MIL-STD-810/MIL-STD-461 standards).
- Understanding of Design to Cost (DTC+), Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT).
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What We OfferSome 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
- Carrot Health to hormonal health, fertility, and family building
- 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!
Learn More & Apply Now!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.
The salary range for this role is 86,800 USD - 165,200 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.
