Electrical Engineer, Specialist
L3HARRIS Technologies
Yorba Linda, CA · Posted November 2, 2026
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About the job
Job Title: Electrical Engineer, Specialist
Job Number: 47113
Job Location: Yorba Linda, California, On Site
Job Schedule: 4/10 Employees work 10 hour days, 4 days a week
Job Description:
L3Harris is seeking a Electrical Engineer with knowledge of job area in Analog, Digital, or RF engineering. Participate in complex projects or processes with general oversight. Communicates within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures. Makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. Contributes to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results.
Essential Functions:
Responsible for designing, developing, modifying, testing, evaluating and integrating electronic equipment, electronic parts, components, or integrated circuitry for complex, high performance hardware systems.
Determines design approaches and parameters.
Analyzes electrical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
Analyzes equipment to establish operating data, conducts experimental tests and evaluates results.
Selects components and equipment based on analysis of specifications and reliability.
Able to identify component operational characteristics that may impact system performance and or sustainability.
Supports and/or leads various design activities for new/existing products, predominantly involving medium frequencies/edge rates. Design for manufacturing is considered through all phases of the development process.
Applies moderately complex electrical engineering principles and techniques to support/lead design, development, documentation, verification, and manufacturing debug activities.
Supports and/or leads design modifications for existing products frequently driven by component obsolescence situations. The design modification is usually of moderate complexity and may require major card level redesign to absorb the necessary hardware changes.
Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Contributes to completion of milestones associated with specific projects that have significant effect on the success of a sub-process/small project task.
Ability to understand and generate schematics with digital and analog electronic circuits.
Ability to provide guidance for PCB layout.
May also review vendor capability to support development. Includes the application of specialized skill sets including analog, digital, FPGA, DSP, CCA, power, antenna, and control systems knowledge as required.
May develop, design, and assess the methodologies and performance of specialized algorithms for, Underwater Acoustics, sonar, communications, geophysical, and other sensor processing applications.
Generation of Presentation materials and training
Operation’s Manual development and release
Test Procedure development and release
5 to 10% Travel required.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
Minimum 3 years of experience in Analog Circuit Design.
Minimum 3 years of RF Electronics.
Minimum 2 years of Schematics Capturing & PCBA Layout in either Altium or Cadence.
Minimum 3 years Lab experience in trouble shooting electronics in Analog and RF domain.
Minimum 2 years of experience working with Network Analyzer, Frequency Generator, Vector Analyzer, and digital/analog scope.
Preferred Additional Skills:
Familiarity with GPS Electronics / Circuit Design.
A/D and D/A Circuit Design, Interfacing and use experience
Familiarity with industry standard EDA tools including schematic capture, PCB layout and FPGA development/simulation.
Experience in development of military products, a plus.
In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California is $92,500 - $171,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
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