Senior Wire Harness Design Engineer

- Provide the engineering expertise to design, fabricate and integrate harnesses systems and represent the harness discipline on a project

- Investigate, plan, design and develop harnesses to meet various technical requirements

- Research, select and procure appropriate connectors, back-shells, contacts, wire, shielding, and cable construction for the product to meet appropriate environmental requirements

- Develop and generate harness system block diagrams and wire diagrams to release for production

- Participate in design reviews and provide input to identify issues and drive design choices

- Prepare harness assembly instructions and test procedures, incorporating your knowledge of industry standards and best practices

- Provide guidance to the electrical team in identifying electrical system requirements given input from internal and external stakeholders including engineering (mechanical, electrical, software), product management, quality and compliance

- Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware

- Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent

- 5+ years hands-on experience designing electrical harnessing for rugged commercial, industrial, aerospace, or military applications

- Build 3D routed harness data files applying NX Cabling and Siemens Capital Harness

- Experience with or proficient in 3D CAD wire harness routing using Siemens NX

- Able to read and generate formboard drawings in 2D CAD for production (Siemens Capital)

- Experience working directly with harness manufacturers to deliver high quality, high reliability products

- Own end-to-end of the electrical wiring and interconnect system, including power distribution, grounding, shielding, and signal integrity

- Ensure the design meets system-level electrical requirements for voltage, current, bandwidth, redundancy, EMI/EMC

- Perform electrical trade studies for wire gauge, shielding, connector selection, and topology

- Analyze and mitigate electrical risks such as voltage drop, crosstalk, EMI susceptibility, and thermal effects

- Familiarity with common electrical bus interfaces (CAN, Ethernet, RS422, RS232, 1553)

- Familiar with existing applicable harness standards as well as MIL-STD requirements

- Able to apply knowledge of SWaP for power, network and communications systems and designs

- Experience reading wire block interconnect diagrams and wire diagrams

- Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)

- 8+ years experience designing and integrating wire harness electrical systems into aerospace platforms

- Experienced and familiar with aircraft avionics module vendors and avionics component suppliers