Hardware Components Engineer (ONSITE)

Date Posted:

2025-09-18

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Raytheon Company, Managed by Collins Aerospace

Collins Aerospace, an RTX Company, is a world leader in advanced communication systems and is responsible for providing systems to all branches of the US military.

The Mission Systems Engineering Department is seeking a Hardware Components Engineer to join our multi disciplined team in Largo, FL or Marlborough, MA location.

Mission Systems Engineering leads the mechanical and electrical hardware design, development and production of DoD and Government Communications Systems.

Responsibilities include working as a team member with a challenging concentration in the mechanical and electrical design of circuit cards and required housings for protected communications systems.

What You Will Do
• Assist in ensuring that all aspects of Parts Control and Standardization are implemented and executed, looking for areas to innovate and optimize processes
• Review datasheets, perform gap analyses, and compare technical characteristics of commercial off the shelf (COTS) components
• Provide recommendations of potential alternate part replacements; tasks include generating piece part documentation of various forms for procurement purposes and submission of required program reports
• Provide Parts Obsolescence and troubleshooting support including investigating and reporting on obsolescence issues, determining potential technical mitigations and maintaining various databases 
• Understand detailed mechanical/electrical design layouts and design documentation using Computer Aided Design tools
• Some travel may be required for installation and design verification

Qualifications You Must Have
• Background in components engineering, including guiding component selection
• Experience creating and peer reviewing procurement control drawings such as Source Control Drawings or Vendor Item Control Drawings
• Broad based Mechanical / Electrical Hardware engineering background
• Experience with obsolescence reporting and tracking
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field

Qualifications We Prefer
• Understanding of Tin Whisker Risk, Gold Embrittlement Risk, and experience with Tin Whisker / Gold Embrittlement Mitigation Plans for military applications
• Experience in understanding qualification requirements for military applications, and familiarity of requirements for Hardness Critical Items
• Experience in preparing customer and/or management level briefings
• Experience with program and project tasks, including managing cost and schedule as well as associated reporting
• Experience in development of technical and cost proposals

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
• This position is eligible for relocation assistance
• And more!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger?

A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond?

At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be.

Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions.

By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow.

Are you up for the challenge?

Join our mission today.

*Please ensure the role type (defined below) is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role.


ONSITE: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite.

This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Employee Referral Eligible

The salary range for this role is 66,000 USD - 130,000 USD.

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.

RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.This role is a U.S.-based role.

If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted.

However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.