Principal Electromagnetic Compatibility

At Collins Aerospace, your work matters, you’ll help build safer, more efficient, and sustainable flight systems while growing your skills and influence in a collaborative, innovative environment.

We are seeking a Principal Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC/EMI) Engineer who is ready to take on challenging technical problems and make a real impact.

If you are passionate about EMC/EMI and ready to make an impact, we are seeking you to join our team.

What You Will Do

• Drive development and qualification activities for assigned programs and projects, ensuring EMC compliance while meeting technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Review and translate high-level EMI/EMC requirements to system and circuit-level specifications.
• Support hardware and system design efforts, including design reviews, to meet product performance requirements for EMI/EMC/Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) compliance per DO-160, MIL-STD-461, and other relevant standards.
• Create EMC control plans, guidelines, test procedures, and detailed test/similarity/analysis reports.
• Collaborate with senior EMI/EMC engineers to develop expertise in advanced EMC topics and expand technical knowledge.
• Utilize modeling/simulation tools and software in support of EMC design.
• Contribute to EMC Standard Work, identify and implement best practices, and share lessons learned with the team.
• Develop EMI/EMC test methodologies and test setups and supervise EMC setup construction and system integration.
• Conduct EMC assessments for design changes, including product development updates and obsolescence evaluations for component replacements.
• Support and coordinate EMI/EMC development, qualification, and certification testing, facilitating effective communication across cross-functional teams and suppliers.
• Identify technical and project risks, proposing mitigation plans to avoid cost and schedule impacts.
• Explore opportunities to improve processes, accelerate schedules, and realize cost savings.
• Demonstrate self-motivation, dependability, problem-solving skills, and a team-first approach.
• Communicate effectively with team members, management, and customers.
• Travel occasionally to support test setup and activities, and work extended or off-shift hours when necessary to meet critical milestones.
• Facilitate the growth of other team members through mentorship and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience.
• Technical knowledge of EMC design and aerospace product qualification testing, including knowledge of MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-704, DO-160, or equivalent commercial standards.
• Proficiency with simulation/modeling tools (e.g., LTSpice, Ansys/CST Studio, Feko) for predicting emissions and susceptibility performance.
• Proficiency/experience in the area of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) topics, including related test and/or analysis experience.
• Experience developing aircraft-representative system-level test setups for EMC compliance.
• Demonstrated capability to manage competing priorities in parallel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience writing customer-facing technical plans, procedures, and reports.
• Experience with performing EMC change impact assessments (for hardware, firmware, and/or software) to evaluate design changes and identify resulting impacts and risks to EMC performance.

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more

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