Senior Electrical Engineer Wanted by Cobham Mission Systems

Senior Electronic Engineer

December 4, 2019 - Davenport, Iowa - Cobham is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for electronics design of aerospace life support and air-to-air refueling equipment. As a growing organization in both commercial and defense aerospace markets, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop embedded electronic solutions for Cobham's industry leading safety and mission critical products and test equipment. The position is located in Davenport, IA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops and qualifies highly reliable electronic designs for military and commercial aerospace applications.
• Develops detailed digital electronic and embedded microcontroller circuits and schematics including the specification for components.
• Leads and participates in Design Reviews for compliance with engineering principles, best practices, company standards, customer requirements, and related specifications.
• Leads or participates as a member of an integrated product development team to optimize designs and verify electronic/electrical system performance.
• Conducts predictive circuit performance analysis.
• Interfaces with printed wire board layout designers, mechanical, thermal and stress engineers to ensure proper packaging of electronic designs.
• Interface with procurement and suppliers to ensure optimized component sourcing.
• Evaluates and approves design changes, specifications, and drawing releases.
• Coordinates preparation and delivery of project deliverables, design documents, and provide estimates for proposals.
• Supports creation of development, qualification and manufacturing test procedures for electronic designs.
• Conducts root-cause-analysis and technical investigations for software/hardware designs.
• Provide engineering assistance to production, service, and repair personnel.
• Provide guidance and assistance to technicians for assembly, testing, and troubleshooting of prototype products.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BS EE or EET) from an ABET accredited program.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in electrical engineering for high reliability applications.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by export laws of the U.S. In order to be eligible you must be either a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience performing full life cycle product development from concept to fielding.
• Experience with embedded microcontroller and/or FPGA designs interfacing with peripheral sensors and electromechanical equipment.
• Experience performing critical circuit analysis/simulation utilizing tools such as PSpice.
• Design experience for typical aerospace environmental requirements such as MIL-STD-810, DO-160, MIL-STD-461 and MIL-STD-46.
• Experience developing to high rigor development standards such as DO-178 and/or DO-254.
• Experience with ORCAD Schematic Capture.
• Experience with DOORS or formal requirements management tools.
• Experience with avionics data buses such as MIL-STD-1553 and/or ARINC 429.

For more information regarding the Davenport facility and products manufactured there, please visit the below links:

https://www.cobham.com/mission-systems/locations/davenport-carleton-life-support-systems-inc

https://www.cobham.com/mission-systems/locations/davenport-sargent-fletcher

About Cobham Mission Systems

Cobham's values of Trust, Talent and Technology have driven us from our launch in 1934 by Sir Alan Cobham, an aviation innovator, to becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art aerospace and defense systems. And it's the insights of our innovators today that will secure our collective future. Innovators like you.

Cobham is one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defense systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust Cobham to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions. This leads to an empowering culture for our people. Our Leadership team is open, sharing plans for the next five years, driving retention by offering demanding, exciting work, and providing full guidance and mentoring.

Cobham is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Cobham to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Cobham will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.

Contacts

Cobham Mission Systems

2734 Hickory Grove Road

Davenport, Iowa,  USA 52804

Phone :  216-539-2333

Cell:  563-293-4019

E-Mail:  john.duke@cobham.com

Web: www.cobham.com/mission-systems

Posted December 5, 2019