Electrical Design Engineer (Contingent)

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• •4+ years of experience designing, developing, and validating complex electronic hardware systems from concept through production, with demonstrated ownership of technical deliverables and successful design execution
• •Proven ability to lead hardware development efforts from concept definition through schematic design, PCB layout and/or layout oversight, integration, verification, and design validation testing
• •Strong proficiency with industry standard schematic capture and PCB layout tools such as Altium Designer or equivalent
• •Proven experience integrating processors, FPGAs, and SoCs into high-performance embedded systems, including successful implementation and debugging of high-speed digital interfaces
• •Ability to design and validate mixed-signal circuitry incorporating ADCs, DACs, sensors, and precision analog signal chains while meeting performance requirements such as noise, accuracy, and dynamic range
• •Demonstrated success implementing and troubleshooting high-speed interfaces such as JESD204B, Ethernet (1G/10G+), PCIe, or equivalent protocols, including signal integrity considerations and laboratory validation
• •Familiarity with clocking architectures, oscillator selection, timing distribution, and synchronization requirements in complex digital systems
• •Proven capability designing passive and active analog signal-conditioning circuits, including filter design, analysis, and validation
• •Ability to identify technical risks early, develop mitigation strategies, and drive resolution through design reviews, testing, and cross-functional collaboration
• •Strong hands-on debugging and root-cause analysis skills with experience using oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, multimeters, logic analyzers, and other laboratory equipment to validate hardware performance and resolve complex issues
• •Ability to develop test plans, execute validation activities, analyze results, and clearly communicate findings and recommendations
• •Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce comprehensive design documentation including requirements, specifications, interface definitions, test plans, and engineering reports
• •Demonstrated success collaborating across multidisciplinary teams including RF, FPGA, software, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and test engineering to deliver integrated product solutions

Desired Qualifications

• •Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• •Ability to develop interface control requirements and system-level integration strategies that enable successful hardware, software, FPGA, and subsystem interoperability
• •Experience conducting and documenting analyses such as reliability assessments, derating evaluations, FMECA, power budgets, EMI/EMC assessments, and environmental qualification planning
• •Experience designing memory subsystems utilizing technologies such as QSPI, eMMC, DDR3/DDR4, UFS, or similar, including interface bring-up, timing validation, and performance characterization
• •Experience designing power distribution, monitoring, and fault-management architectures, including implementation of health monitoring, protection mechanisms, and FDIR concepts