Sr. Specialist, Digital Hardware Design Engineer

Quick Facts

• Job: Sr Specialist, Hardware Design Engineer

• Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

• Schedule: 9/80 (Employees work 9 out of every 14 days; every other Friday off)

Description

Seeking an ambitious hardware engineer to design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications, building digital and RF circuits for national security mission needs. The role involves communications system development through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercially available chipsets, and embedded processors, including schematic capture, simulations, PCB analysis, and PCB/layout.

Responsibilities

• Document designs from requirements, testing procedures, and bill of material

• Perform detailed performance and functional measurements and debug at a hardware level

• Create custom circuit cards using FPGAs, embedded processors, networking components, and other electronic components

• Characterize hardware performance over a wide variety of environmental conditions

• Use industry standard interfaces such as 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4, JESD, PCIe, and 1000BASE-T

• Support test engineering with transition of hardware to manufacturing testing

• Contribute to design review and system integration

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience

• OR graduate degree and minimum 4 years of prior related experience

• OR, in lieu of a degree, minimum 10 years of prior related experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience with CCA and hardware design

• Familiarity with lab test equipment

• Minimum 4 years of experience with hardware verification, schematic capture, and PCB layout

• Experience with laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and other complex measurement devices

• Preferred: Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or electrical engineering

• Preferred: Experience with Mentor Graphics tools

• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git and/or ClearCase

• Familiarity with Confluence or other information sharing tools

Benefits

• 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off

• Inclusive, values-driven environment focused on professional growth and work-life success

• Drug-free workplace with possible pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks (where permitted)