Senior Digital Hardware Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Evaluates reliability of materials, properties and techniques used in production
• Plans, designs and develops electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, mechanical systems, equipment and packaging, optical systems and/or DSP systems
• Designs electrical circuits and digital systems for next generation avionics test equipment, and radio test equipment
• Develops digital hardware systems that include high performance embedded processors, CPLDs, FPGAs, audio, switching power supplies, ADC, DAC and peripheral products
• Works with designs that incorporate high speed busses such as DDR3/4, PCIe Gen 3/4, USB, and SerDes
• Uses ECAD tools such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, or Altium to design digital hardware systems
• Uses general test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers) to design test boards or fixtures to aid in board bring-up and PCBA testing
• Researches and selects components to meet electrical engineering design needs
• Tests designed circuits and documents the test results
• Finds technical root cause and suggests corrective action for given problems
• Provides estimates on level of effort for design projects and executes designs to meet development schedules
• Evaluates new options of similar technology and offers suggestions to improve processes
• Provides comments and suggestions in design reviews
• Documents design including schematics, theory of operations and troubleshooting guides

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements

• BSEE (Master’s degree a plus), or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of digital hardware design experience
• Excellent communication skills required
• Experience with designing circuits using DDR3, PCIe, and other high speed busses
• Well rounded knowledge of various types of EDA tools such as schematic capture, PCB layout tools, power and signal integrity simulation, synthesis, place-and-route tools. Cadence tool flow desired
• Experienced with avionics, communications and test equipment design preferred
• US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status required (U.S. Person Status per ITAR Regulations)