Senior Digital Hardware Engineer
About The Position
This Senior Hardware Development Engineer position at VIAVI Solutions in Lenexa, Greater Kansas City Area, involves evaluating the reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production. The role focuses on planning, designing, and developing electronic parts, components, integrated circuitry, mechanical systems, equipment, packaging, optical systems, and/or DSP systems. Specifically, the engineer will be responsible for designing electrical circuits and digital systems for next-generation avionics test equipment and radio test equipment. This includes the design and development of digital hardware systems incorporating high-performance embedded processors, CPLDs, FPGAs, audio, switching power supplies, ADC, DAC, and peripheral products, with a focus on high-speed buses like DDR3/4, PCIe Gen 3/4, USB, and SerDes. VIAVI Solutions empowers Service Providers and IT organizations to manage the network lifecycle for complex 5G and Fiber networks and uses its expertise in light management and optical coatings for various advanced technologies.
Requirements
- BSEE, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of digital hardware design experience
- Excellent communication skills required
- Experience with designing circuits using DDR3, PCIe, and other high speed busses
- Have well rounded knowledge of various types of EDA tools such as schematic capture, PCB layout tools, power and signal integrity simulation, synthesis, place-and-route tools
- US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status required (U.S. Person Status per ITAR Regulations)
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree
- Cadence tool flow desired
- Experienced with avionics, communications and test equipment design preferred
Responsibilities
- Designing electrical circuits and digital systems for next generation avionics test equipment, and radio test equipment
- Design and development of digital hardware systems that include high performance embedded processors, CPLDs, FPGAs, audio, switching power supplies, ADC, DAC and peripheral products
- Work with designs that incorporate high speed busses such as DDR3/4, PCIe Gen 3/4, USB, and SerDes
- Proficient in using ECAD tools such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, or Altium
- Proficient with using general test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- Design test boards or fixtures to aid in board bring-up and PCBA testing
- Research and select components to meet electrical engineering design needs
- Test designed circuits and document the test results
- Find technical root cause and suggest corrective action for given problems
- Provide estimates on level of effort for design projects and execute designs to meet development schedules
- Evaluate new options of similar technology
- Offer suggestions to improve processes, and provide comments and suggestions in design reviews
- Documentation of design including schematics, theory of operations and troubleshooting guides
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
