Date Posted:
2026-01-06Country:
United States of AmericaLocation:
HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USAPosition Role Type:
OnsiteU.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of “U.S. Person” go here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62*Security Clearance:
None/Not RequiredThe Common Platform Hardware (CPH) department in Military Avionics and Helicopters (MA&H) has an opening for a Principal Electrical Engineer. This department is responsible for the development and sustainment of state-of-the-art avionics hardware products including integrated processing cabinets, displays, video processing modules, and control panels used in military fighter, fixed wing, and rotary wing aircraft platforms.
Our products employ the following technologies and interfaces; Airborne Electronic Hardware (including FPGA, CPLD, ASICs), embedded processing resources (PowerPC, Intel, and ARM), avionics interfaces (including ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, I2C, SPI, Ethernet), video interfaces (including SMPTE, analog, DVI, DisplayPort).
Responsibilities include ruggedized mission computer and display level product development, circuit card and sub-level module development, product qualification, product transition, and product sustainment over the life cycle of the design. The Principal Electrical Engineer also has opportunities for project engineer and control account management (PE/CAM), and has high expectations for leadership within a design team, and communication to our internal and external customers.
This role is specifically to lead on KC-46 VRCU and VPU Integration activities followed by other Boeing computer efforts with the DPC product line. The principal engineer will have responsibilities that include lead P1, P2, and P3's in integration and qual preparation and testing, collaborating with three other team leads (project engineering, over design lead, and cert 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.
- Oversee qualification testing and root cause any failures to this testing.
- Mentoring and delegating tasks to less experienced engineers working the integration part of the KC-46 program.
