Senior Hardware Test Engineer; Onsite

Position: Senior Hardware Test Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA
32:
Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

L Clearance

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

We have an exciting opportunity for a position of Senior Hardware Test Engineer located onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA. If you enjoy being in the middle of everything and love working with teams, this is the job for you! We are a team of innovators, creators and strategists drawing inspiration from each other every day. We collaborate, iterate, and execute the company's mission and personal career growth.

This position is part of the Whole Life Engineering project team focused on the development, integration, validation, and maintenance of test hardware/software for advanced military communications and displays. The selected candidate will develop software applications, libraries, and instrument drivers; as well as developing hardware solutions that include both high-end Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) test equipment and in-house test fixtures.

The selected candidate will contribute to one or more multidiscipline engineering teams, including representation from our global design, operations, service, and program management offices. Typical work involves the development of both engineering and production test equipment and systems. As such, the candidate will contribute to the completion of all stages of test product development for Collins Aerospace test products. They will be expected to act, either as a part of their team or independently, to ideate, develop and release high-quality test solutions to our production floors across the world.

This position is 100% on site in Cedar Rapids, IA.

What YOU Will Do:

• Develop and maintain ATE (Automated Test Equipment) test software for a factory/production environment which exercises and analyzes hardware deliverable products

• Develop and maintain ATE (Automated Test Equipment) test fixtures through circuit design, cable design, connector strategies, and top-level fixture design. Work closely with a PCB and mechanical designers, reviewing designs and participating in design reviews

• Support cradle to grave efforts including requirements, design, integration, validation, verification, and maintenance of test hardware and software

• Design high quality solutions that meet cost and schedule targets

• High focus on DFM/DFS standards (Design for Manufacturability / Design for Serviceability)

• Troubleshoot software and hardware as part of an integration team

• Communicate effectively with global engineering, operations, service and program leadership

• Experience with software applications using C, C++, C#, NI LabVIEW, NI Test Stand, or other test software programming languages

• Ability to interface ATE test software with laboratory and production tests instrumentation such as but not limited to oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters, signal generators, signal analyzers, and/or direct current power supplies

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 with developing and maintaining ATE (Automated Test Equipment) test hardware and software for a factory/production environment

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Active or Existing Secret Security Clearance is Preferred

• Experience with ATE test software requirements, design, implementation, integration, validation, and verification process events

• Experience with RF technologies and/or high-speed digital communications

• Experien…