Lead, Electrical Engineer - Power Hardware (Palm Bay, FL)

Job Tile: Lead, Electrical Engineering – Power Hardware

Job Code: 41871

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Schedule: 9/80

Job Description

L3Harris is seeking a Lead, Electrical Engineer – Power Hardware to join our team in Palm Bay, FL. In this role, you will support the design and development of advanced space-qualified power hardware for mission-critical applications. This is an opportunity to contribute to innovative spacecraft and payload power solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment where concepts move into production reality.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in spacecraft electrical power subsystem design, including power architecture development, circuit simulation, detailed analysis, hardware verification, and cross-functional collaboration. This position will play a key role in supporting current and future programs, internal research and development efforts, and strategic growth initiatives.

Essential Functions:

Lead the design and development of advanced power hardware using sound electrical engineering principles and best practices.

Support all phases of hardware development, including requirements analysis, architecture definition, detailed design, schematic capture, simulation, documentation, manufacturing, integration, and verification.

Translate customer and system-level requirements into detailed electrical specifications and power architectures while balancing technical, cost, and schedule constraints.

Design and analyze isolated and non-isolated power conversion topologies, including:

AC/DC converters

DC/DC converters

Battery chargers

Power management and distribution circuits

Perform detailed analysis of power circuits for:

Voltage regulation and voltage ripple analysis

Custom magnetics design

Mitigation of Single Event Transients due to particle strikes

Total dose radiation (given parametric degradations)

Neutron fluence (given parametric degradations)

Efficiency

Thermal performance

Control-loop stability

EMI/EMC

Transient response

Provide mentorship and technical guidance to power engineers.

Troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues at the component, board, module, payload, and system levels.

Use laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, source meters, electronic loads, signal generators, multimeters, and DC power supplies to validate designs and investigate issues.

Conduct trade studies and develop conceptual power solutions in support of proposals, IRAD, and new business opportunities.

Collaborate with program leadership, manufacturing, systems engineering, and other cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality hardware solutions.

Evaluate component tolerances and environmental impacts to ensure robust design margins for high-reliability applications in harsh operating environments.

Support risk reduction and mitigation activities related to obsolescence, cost, producibility, and long-lead materials.

Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Review Boards (FRB)

Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or another relevant STEM field or Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience interpreting high-level requirements and developing power architectures

Strong experience in electronic power design, including:

Power devices

Control loop theory

Thermal management

Custom magnetics design

Printed wiring board layout

EMI filtering

Technical knowledge of spacecraft power subsystems, including:

Ability to model spacecraft mission orbital average power, energy balance, and solar arrays

Batteries

Power topologies and charging systems

Power control and switching

Regulation

Distribution

Power quality

Proposal generation with technical architecture/cost/schedule

Experience performing detailed analysis of power circuit custom magnetics

Experience with mission definition, concept generation, trade studies, preliminary and final design, component selection, integration, test support, materials selection, and design documentation

Experience developing qualified deliverable power hardware for space, aerospace, defense, medical, or other mission-critical applications

Experience working with manufacturing and production teams in a program environment

Experience with Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Review Boards (FRB)

Experience generating and presenting technical material to program leadership, customers, and review boards

Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

Ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams and leadership levels

Experience serving as a subcontract technical representative, including supplier evaluation, statement of work development, and technical oversight of external deliverables

Experience with ECAD and analysis tools such including:

LTSpice

PSpice

Cadence

Siemens Xpedition

Experience integrating firmware/software with hardware in lab and system environments

Mathcad, MATLAB, Python, or similar programming experience for modeling, analysis, and automation

Experience modeling spacecraft mission orbital average power and energy balance

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