Tarana Wireless

Staff Hardware Design Engineer

Tarana Wireless$155K — $200K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (MS preferred) in Electrical Engineering
  • 12+ years of wireless hardware design experience
  • Expertise in complex high-speed board design
  • Familiarity with digital and analog circuit design
  • Experience using hardware test equipment such as spectrum analyzers and power meters
  • Ability to define performance requirements and analyze through simulations
  • Knowledge of networking is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and design of PCBAs from prototype to production
  • Design high-speed circuits with processors, FPGAs, and DDRs
  • Create schematics and layout for advanced wireless systems
  • Integrate discrete components for filtering and other functions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware and software engineers
  • Define requirements and trade-offs with product management and engineering leadership
  • Drive value engineering efforts to enhance performance and reduce costs
  • Provide recommendations to improve RF performance based on design analysis.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • 401K matching
  • Flexible time off
  • Stock options
Full Job Description
Tarana is a fast revenue growth company built by outstanding talented people and with innovative technology. Our hardware development team is looking for a smart, experienced, and hardworking member working to design and test Hardware systems in different configurations. The ideal candidate would have 12+ years experience with wireless hardware (5G client devices, base stations, Wi-Fi) design aspects and will have very deep familiarity with digital, mechanical, analog baseband and RF designs. He or she will also have expertise using such equipment as spectrum and network analyzers and high speed oscilloscopes. Experience with Ethernet, DDR4 waveforms and protocols, wireless performance tests are desired. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 12 years of hardware design and test. What you'll be doing: • Take a leadership role in architecting, designing PCBAs from prototype to NPI and high volume production stage. • High-speed circuit designs including fast processors, modern large-scale FPGAs, DDRs, PCIe and other high-speed SerDes and high-efficiency power supplies. • Schematics and layout design for innovative high speed wireless systems. • Circuit designs using discretes (passive and active) for integration, filtering, etc. • Work with extended cross-functional teams of other hardware designers, mechanical engineers, operations engineers and software engineers. • Work with product management, Operations and Engineering leadership to define the requirements and trade-offs. • Provide leadership in value engineering to continuously improve performance and cost. • Understand and make design recommendations to improve radio frequency performance. What You'll Need: • Bachelor's degree (MS preferred) in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of relevant Experience. • Wireless hardware design expertise (digital and analog) with complex high-speed board design experience. • Ability to define subsystem performance requirements, analyze through modeling and simulations. • Design PCBAs from concept, architecture, schematics, layout, bringing up, testing and all the way to high-volume production. • Hardware test equipment usage (eg, spectrum analyzers or power meters, Ethernet traffic testing, High-speed serial lanes testing) and guide 4-corner testing and qualification. • Familiar with design cycles and able to use the Arena PLM tool. • Knowledge of networking is highly desirable. • Able to work well with cross-functional teams, such as the compliance team (to help get regulatory approvals), the RF team (to test and integrate into products with antennas and test/knowledge of S parameters, phase noise and isolation, return loss, etc), the OPS teams (solving production issues) and the SW teams. • Statistical analysis abilities are a plus. What we offer: We don't just build next-gen wireless technology - we build people. The salary range for this position is: $155,000 to $200,000 Compensation will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to: skill set, years of experience and the employee's geographic location. Tarana provides competitive benefits to employees in this role including: Medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, flexible time off and stock option.

About Tarana Wireless

Tarana Wireless is a telecommunications company that provides wireless broadband solutions. The company's technology is designed to provide high-speed internet access to underserved areas, using a unique wireless mesh network architecture. Tarana's products are used by service providers, governments, and enterprises to deliver reliable, high-performance broadband services. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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50 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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