Specialist, Mechanical Engineer- Interconnect
Salt Lake City, Utah
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L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
Job Title: Specialist, Mechanical Engineering (Cable & Harness Design)
Job Code: 1357
Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Job Schedule: 9/80, every other Friday off
Job Description
This engineering position requires the ability to design interconnect solutions for power distribution, RF, communication, and high-speed data signal. Responsibilities include all aspects of interconnect design, including the selection of the cable’s components (connectors, back shells, wire, shielding, sleeving), cable routing & cable management, and the ability to design to meet environmental, shielding, and other manufacturing requirements. Successful candidates will be members of a highly motivated, multi-disciplined, cross-functional design engineering team chartered specifically to champion interconnect engineering.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4 years relevant experience with a Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM discipline;2years of relevant experience with a Masters’ degree; 8 years of prior cable and harness design experience in lieu of a degree
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Design to Cost (DTC), Design for Supply Chain (DfSC), and Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)
- Experience with Capital Logic or a similar schematic capture application
- Experience with specifications such as SAE AS50881, MIL-STD 810, MIL-STD-461, and DO-160
- Knowledge of commonly used signal types such as RS232, RS422, RS485, Audio, Ethernet, Fiber Optic Single Mode and Multi-Mode and High Frequency RF is strongly desired
- Experience with NX or a similar 3D CAD application
- Experience designing, documenting, and/or building cables (i.e. multi-conductor cables, fiber optic cables, RF cables, high speed data cables)
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