Hardware Design EngineerThis is an ONSITE role in Austin, TX. Candidates must live in the Greater Austin Metro area or the surrounding areas.
What You'll Do- Develop schematics, select components, and evaluate design tradeoffs on hardware you own from concept through release
- System specifications and requirement gathering and definition
- Plan and develop PCB layouts following best practices for signal integrity, thermal performance, noise immunity, and EMI mitigation
- Bring up, debug, characterize, and validate new designs at the bench
- Design and execute test plans, fixtures, and experiments, and use data, simulations, and measurements to guide design decisions
- Collaborate with software, mechanical, manufacturing, and applications teams to develop solutions that work not only on the bench, but in production and at customer sites
- Help with sustaining work and product improvements across our installed base.
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience designing, building, and testing electronic hardware
- Experience developing original circuits and making design decisions from first principles, rather than only modifying existing designs.
- Substantial research, competition, hobby, or personal project experience may count toward this requirement when it demonstrates meaningful design, build, test, and debugging work
- Strong fundamentals and comfort working at the boundaries between analog, digital, and power.
- Comfortable at the bench with oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and common lab equipment
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- High-voltage power electronics and high-energy power delivery
- Optical instrumentation and precision sensing
- Embedded control hardware and data acquisition
- Computing modules, firmware, and FPGA-based systems
- High-speed measurement and diagnostics
- Safety-critical industrial equipment
- Strong Analog Design experience
- Firmware or FPGA development, and comfort working across hardware and software during integration and debugging
- Power supply or mixed-signal circuit design
- Experience working on systems subject to harsh environments and demanding specifications
- You've designed something that was built and tested
- You enjoy working at the bench and using measurements to resolve technical questions and guide decisions
- You improve systems you inherit instead of simply documenting their flaws
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make progress without every requirement being fully defined
- You want to grow toward greater technical ownership, including leading subsystem designs and making well-supported design decisions
- Austin, Texas (On-Site)
- Travel less than 5>#/li###
- $100,000-$140,000 annual salary
Basic QualificationsTechnologies You'll EncounterYou'll work in Altium, LTspice, PSIM, and Vivado, and in a lab with scopes, DMMs, signal generators, bolometers, and soldering and rework stations.
You do not need experience in every area above. We are looking for engineers with strong fundamentals, hands-on experience, curiosity, and a willingness to learn.
Bonus QualificationsWhat We're Looking ForHow You'll GrowWithin your first six months, you'll support released products and own defined portions of active development programs. Within your first year, we expect you to be originating circuits and carrying complete subsystems from concept through release. We're making this hire with the expectation that the role will grow into significant technical ownership over time.
Location & CompensationSalary Range: $95k- $130k annual; salary is commensurate on experience.
