Sr. Electrical Harness Engineer

Required

• Experience: 8+ years designing, specifying and sourcing cable harnesses for shipped hardware — robotics, aerospace, defense or industrial equipment that lives outdoors and gets abused.
• Rugged, high-flex-life harnesses: you have designed harnesses across moving joints (pan-tilt, gimbal, turret, robot arm or cable-track), specified continuous-flex constructions and bend limits, and proven cycle life on a flex rig.
• Copper, fiber and hybrid: hands-on with shielded multi-conductor copper builds, single-mode and multimode fiber termination and testing, and copper/fiber hybrids through a shared connector.
• Connectors and sealing: working command of rugged circular MIL-spec families (MIL-DTL-38999 or similar) and less-rugged sealed families — when each is right, how to terminate and seal them, and what they cost.
• Harness CAD and documentation: wire lists, 3-D routing and formboard drawings in SolidWorks Electrical/Routing, Zuken E3, Capital, Altium or similar; drawings a contract manufacturer can quote and build from.
• Workmanship: IPC/WHMA-A-620 fluent; you crimp with calibrated tooling and pull-test your terminations.
• Signal integrity basics: shielding, grounding and impedance control for Ethernet, USB, CAN and camera links.
• Test and failure analysis: continuity, hipot, insertion-loss and flex testing; you have cut open a failed harness, found the root cause and fixed the design.
• Compliance: U.S. citizenship and the ability to pass a background check.
• MIL-STD-810 shock, vibration, temperature, sand/dust and immersion; MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC.
• Harnesses on weapon-mounted or recoil-loaded systems.
• Slip rings and rotary joints — electrical, fiber and hybrid.