This position is 100% onsite at our Poway, CA location. The compensation for this role is $135,000 - $160,000 annually based on experience. This position requires a U.S Person or a person who can qualify for a Department of State or Department of Commerce License.
Essential Functions: - Provide technical expertise in the design and development of complex digital electronic hardware.
- Lead schematic design, PCB development, board bring-up, integration, debugging, and verification activities.
- Design processor, FPGA, memory, high-speed interface, clocking, and power circuitry.
- Perform and review signal integrity, power integrity, timing, and design analyses.
- Define PCB layout requirements including stack-up, impedance control, placement, and high-speed routing constraints.
- Lead component selection and technical trade studies.
- Develop verification plans, test procedures, and qualification strategies.
- Lead resolution of complex board and system-level technical issues.
- Represent Engineering in technical reviews and customer discussions.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
- Support Manufacturing Engineering with production and sustaining issues.
Responsibilities: - Develop hardware architectures and detailed designs that meet product performance, reliability, cost, and schedule objectives.
- Lead design decisions involving processors, FPGAs, memories, communication interfaces, and supporting circuitry.
- Perform detailed design analysis and identify technical risks early in the development cycle.
- Coordinate hardware development with FPGA, software, mechanical, systems, and manufacturing teams.
- Lead board bring-up, integration, verification, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigations.
- Develop project estimates, technical plans, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Support existing products through design changes, component obsolescence, defect resolution, and documentation updates.
- Lead or actively contribute to schematic, layout, and technical design reviews.
- Improve engineering methods, tools, design practices, and verification processes.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Strong expertise in digital hardware and board-level design.
- Extensive experience with schematic capture and complex multilayer PCB development.
- Strong understanding of processor, FPGA, memory, clocking, reset, and power architectures.
- Strong understanding of high-speed digital design, transmission lines, impedance control, termination, crosstalk, and timing.
- Experience designing with interfaces such as DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, or similar technologies.
- Experience with signal integrity and power integrity analysis.
- Strong component selection and design analysis skills.
- Experience with FPGA design, VHDL, Verilog, or FPGA integration is preferred.
- Strong hardware debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other laboratory equipment.
- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and technical leadership skills.
Education / Experience: - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant hardware or digital design experience.
- Master's degree is a plus.
