Lead Digital Hardware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Digital Hardware Engineer in the Space Missions and Sensing (SMS) sector
• Focus: Engineering development, integration, and demonstration of complex electronic systems
• Clearance: Ability to obtain a security clearance; U.S. citizenship required (Active Secret highly preferred)

Description

Lead engineering efforts for sensing and counter-sensing electronic systems by designing, integrating, and testing complex high-speed digital circuit card assemblies and modules. You will lead small multidisciplinary teams, translate performance objectives into metrics and requirements, and perform signal/power/timing integrity analysis to meet performance, reliability, and manufacturability needs.

Responsibilities

• Design complex high-speed digital circuit card assemblies across multiple platforms and form factors (custom boards, test boards, evaluation kits, COTS SoMs on carrier boards)
• Lead and collaborate with small multidisciplinary teams to build and test hardware systems and field-deployable prototypes
• Quantify goals, performance objectives, metrics, dependencies, and risks to guide engineering work
• Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules, and sub-assemblies
• Perform signal-integrity, power-integrity, and timing analysis; define stackups and design constraints
• Create and review test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, and other documentation
• Run digital system performance trade studies and analyses (including simulation and real-world testing) to derive and verify requirements
• Interface with government sponsors and suppliers as needed
• Mentor peers and more junior engineers

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required to obtain a security clearance; Active Secret highly preferred
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• PhD+2 years, MS+5 years, or BS+7 years of relevant experience in digital circuit card design assemblies and integration/testing 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-based schematic capture and simulation tools such as Altium Designer
• Familiarity collaborating on RF systems and subsystems
• Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python and/or other higher-level languages
• Strong mathematical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Full-time salary range: $174,000 to $225,000
• Offers based on experience, education, training, key skills, security clearances, and market/business conditions