Staff Digital Hardware Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design electrical circuits and digital systems for next generation avionics test equipment, and radio test equipment.
• Design and develop digital hardware systems that include high performance embedded processors, CPLDs, FPGAs, audio, switching power supplies, ADC, DAC and peripheral products.
• Work with designs that incorporate high speed busses such as DDR3/4, PCIe Gen 3/4, USB, and SerDes.
• Proficient in using ECAD tools such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, or Altium.
• Proficient with using general test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
• Design test boards or fixtures to aid in board bring-up and PCBA testing.
• Research and select components to meet electrical engineering design needs.
• Test designed circuits and document the test results.
• Find technical root cause and suggest corrective action for given problems.
• Provide estimates on level of effort for design projects and execute designs to meet development schedules.
• Evaluate new options of similar technology. Offer suggestions to improve processes, and provide comments and suggestions in design reviews.
• Documentation of design including schematics, theory of operations and troubleshooting guides.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements

• BSEE (Master’s degree a plus), or equivalent experience;
• 8+ 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).