Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Ametek, Inc.•Pleasanton, CA

About The Position

Gatan is seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Design Engineer to support development of current and next-generation cameras, imaging energy filters, specimen preparation equipment, and other electron microscopy products. Based in Pleasanton, California, the role works closely with Software and Hardware teams to develop electrical designs and contribute to complex, high-performance digital systems. The engineer will design digital hardware and programmable logic, define system architectures and requirements, support board layout, integration, testing, and performance analysis, and troubleshoot embedded systems. The role partners with Software, Hardware, NPI, and Manufacturing teams on product development and productization. It also calls for using AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and cost efficiency while critically evaluating their outputs and appropriate applications. Gatan, an AMETEK business unit, manufactures instrumentation and software for electron microscopy. Its technologies support scientific research into materials and biological structures at the nanoscale across semiconductors, advanced materials, life sciences, and energy research. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Gatan has offices and service teams around the world and serves research institutions, universities, and technology companies.

Requirements

BS degree in Electrical Engineering from a four-year college or university.
10+ years of hardware development experience.
Experience in high-performance digital design, board design, and board layout.
Experience with board design tools such as Altium, Orcad, or Allegro.
Experience designing high-performance systems incorporating modern memory, communications, power, and interface technologies.
Experience with CPLD/FPGA design using SystemVerilog.
Ability to architect hardware platforms and high-speed interfaces.
Experience working with SoCs and embedded peripheral interfaces.
Strong laboratory troubleshooting and hardware debugging skills.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of image sensors.
Experience with analog circuit design and circuit simulation.
MS degree in Electrical Engineering.

Responsibilities

Design and develop complex, high-performance digital hardware systems.
Define system architectures, hardware platforms, and high-speed interfaces.
Contribute to hardware design, system performance analysis, technology evaluation, integration, and testing.
Define system requirements and support system-level integration activities.
Design and develop high-performance digital boards and support board layout activities.
Develop systems using technologies such as LPDDR5, SerDes, optical transports, PCIe Gen5, JESD204B, switching power supplies, and communication interfaces and protocols.
Design CPLD and FPGA logic using SystemVerilog.
Perform synthesis and layout activities for programmable logic devices.
Work with SoCs and microprocessor peripherals, including Ethernet, USB, PCIe, UART, I²C, SPI, and RS485.
Use digital embedded-system debugging tools, including ICE, logic analyzers, JTAG, and oscilloscopes.
Partner with Software, Hardware, NPI, and Manufacturing teams to support product development and productization.
Use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and cost efficiency while critically evaluating outputs and identifying appropriate use cases.