Hardware Digital Engineer

Emerson • Austin, TX

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Product R&D has an immediate opening for a Senior Digital Hardware Engineer
within our talented hardware design team in Austin, TX. In this role, you will
have the opportunity to work throughout the product lifecycle to develop
products and systems that expand the test and measurement industry's
capabilities. Digital engineers at NI stand at the intersection of the many
disciplines required to make new products come to life, making this role
critical to the team's success. Through your work you will have opportunities
to continue to expand your digital design skills by learning from experienced
technical leaders and participating in initiatives to grow the craft of digital
design.

WHO YOU ARE: You partner with others to get work done. You can take a creative
idea and put it into practice. You build and deliver solutions that meet
customer expectations. You persist in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles
and setbacks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Computer, or Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years relevant engineering experience in digital hardware design.
• Experience using VHDL and/or SystemVerilog to implement synthesizable logic targeting FPGAs.
• Experience writing testbenches and simulation models to verify logic designs.
• Experience using schematic capture and board layout tools.
• Located within a commutable distance to the NI Corporate headquarters in Austin, TX, or willing to relocate.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future.Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1 (including those with OPT or CPT), H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Nice To Haves

• Experience bringing up prototype hardware.
• Familiar with common clock domain crossing methods.
• Knowledge of static timing analysis and experience writing timing constraints.
• Familiar with board level signal integrity simulation tools.
• Experience writing and executing test plans to verify board level digital circuits.
• Familiar with common benchtop instruments such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, function generators, and power supplies.
• Familiar with Xilinx, Intel, or Lattice FPGAs and CPLDs, as well as their design tools.
• Experience collaborating with other technical disciplines such as Analog, Software, Mechanical, and RF.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary hardware engineering teams to develop test and measurement products.
• Develop register maps and generate documentation to ensure clear design intent to the broader project team.
• Own the full FPGA design, including logic implementation, data movement and analysis, testbenches, compilation, and timing analysis.
• Own all aspects of digital board level design, including schematic entry, layout guidelines, signal integrity simulations, and prototype validation.
• Develop and execute plans for prototype hardware bring-up and board level validation.
• Be the voice of digital design in project meetings by estimating level of effort for design tasks, providing input on status of work, and proactively raising technical concerns.

Benefits

• We provide a market-leading 401(k) and profit-sharing plan, a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage, family formation benefits in addition to paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), Employee Assistance Program, tuition reimbursement, employee resource groups, recognition, and much more.
• Our culture prioritizes work-life balance and offers flexible time off plans, inclusive of vacation, holiday, and sick leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level