Lead Digital Hardware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Digital Hardware Engineer (digital hardware)

• Focus: Complex high-speed digital circuit cards, modules, and prototype systems

• Security clearance: U.S. citizenship required; Active Secret clearance highly preferred

Description

Lead the design, development, integration, and testing of complex high-speed digital circuit card assemblies and modules for sensing and counter-sensing electronic systems. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to define requirements and performance metrics, perform signal/power/timing analysis, generate technical documentation, and support hardware test and troubleshooting. Validate architectures through simulation and real-world testing, mentor engineers, and interface with sponsors and suppliers as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design complex high-speed digital circuit card assemblies across multiple platforms and form factors (custom boards, test boards, evaluation-kit integration, and COTS SoMs on custom carrier boards)

• Lead small, multi-disciplinary teams to design, build, and test field-deployable prototype hardware with a path toward low-volume product systems

• Quantify performance goals, system objectives, metrics, dependencies, and risks

• Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules, and digital sub-assemblies

• Perform signal-integrity, power-integrity, and timing analysis; define stackups and design constraints for performance, reliability, and manufacturability

• Generate and review test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, and reports

• Run digital system performance trade studies and architecture analyses; derive and verify requirements via simulation and real-world testing

• Interface with government sponsors and suppliers

• Mentor peers and more junior engineers

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance (Active Secret clearance highly preferred)

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline (or higher degree with commensurate experience)

• Experience: PhD +2 years, MS +5 years, or BS +7 years in digital circuit card design assemblies and integration/build/test of complex electronic systems

• Experience defining digital interfaces, clocking schemes, and system architecture for microcontrollers, FPGAs/SoCs, and data-converter ICs

• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces (PCIe, SerDes, Ethernet, DDR) and signal-integrity analysis

• Experience with CAD schematic capture and simulation tools such as Altium Designer

• Familiarity collaborating on RF systems and subsystems

• Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python (or other higher-level languages)

• Strong mathematical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

Benefits

• Career growth opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly expanding work program

• Opportunity to lead prototype development and contribute to real-world sensing and counter-sensing system demonstrations