Principal Electrical Engineer, Opengear (Sandy, UT - Hybrid)

Digi International • Sandy, UT

78d • $108,000 - $169,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Opengear designs and manufactures products for data center and remote site management. We are a rapidly growing supplier of sophisticated data center, network and remote site management products. Our customers include tech unicorns and Fortune 100 companies. We are the leading supplier of out-of-band solutions for IT infrastructure management and are actively exploring new solutions for hyper-scale data center deployment and management. We are a global company with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Sandy, Utah. We are seeking an accomplished and innovative Principal Electronics Engineer to join our Brisbane-based hardware team. In this role, you'll drive our hardware design strategy, serve as a technical authority on embedded electronics, and guide teams through complex development challenges. This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring deep technical knowledge, product insight, and a collaborative leadership style. This role offers the opportunity to shape the next generation of Opengear's network resilience products through challenging, end-to-end software and firmware development across our solution stack - from embedded firmware and Linux kernel drivers to web-based interfaces and centralized management platforms. You'll be part of a collaborative work environment with a strong engineering culture, while also gaining leadership opportunities such as mentoring junior engineers and influencing product architecture and technical direction. In addition, the position provides a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and significant career growth potential in a high-demand technology sector.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience in electronics design.
• Proven track record of delivering production-grade hardware from concept through manufacturing.
• Expertise in digital circuit design, high-speed interfaces and power supply design.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on documentation suitable for an intended audience.
• Ability to lead by example and inspire excellence through challenges and complexity.
• Comfortable working in agile development environments.
• Experience with Altium Designer (preferred) or similar schematic capture and layout tools.
• Strong understanding of DFM, DFT, signal integrity, power network analysis, thermal and EMI/EMC considerations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with FPGAs, cellular modules or RF systems.
• Experience with regulatory compliance testing, EMC design best-practices and troubleshooting.
• Experience with embedded Linux platforms and board-level debugging.
• Experience with collaborative and reusable design and review workflows.
• Experience with simulations for thermal, power network, signal integrity, EMC and/or RF.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and validation of complex electronic systems, including chip-down ARM and x86 SoCs, network switches, high speed interfaces.
• Review and provide guidance on schematics, PCB layouts, component selection and system design for reliability, compliance and cost optimization.
• Technically guide board bring-up, validation, signal integrity analysis and pre-compliance activities.
• Collaborate with firmware and mechanical team members to ensure seamless integration and synergies.
• Work with software engineering and architecture to ensure alignment and overall optimization.
• Collaborate with product management on technical feasibility and design trade-offs.
• Engage with engineering management on complexity estimates, work breakdowns, milestones and risk burndown.
• Support and lead root-cause analysis for hardware issues from initial prototypes through production.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools and documentation practices.
• Provide valuable input into risk assessment, regulatory certification planning and supply chain resilience evaluations.
• Serve as technical mentor to other members of the hardware team.
• Identify and advocate for professional development opportunities alongside engineering management.
• Guide innovations to alignment with strategic direction, outline design trade-offs especially around cost/time and modularity/complexity.

Benefits

• Short-term incentive program.
• New hire stock award.
• Paid parental leave.
• Open (uncapped) PTO.
• Hybrid work environment.
• Competitive medical, health & wellbeing and compensation offerings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees