Senior Electrical Engineer-Analog/Mixed-Signal & FPGA

AURA TECHNOLOGIES LLC.•Durham, NC

56d•Onsite

About The Position

AURA Technologies, LLC (AURA) is an advanced research and development (R&D) company creating game-changing innovations for the US Department of Defense and the private sector in cutting-edge technology. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role within a dynamic multidisciplinary research and development organization. The successful candidate must be located within commuting distance of our corporate office in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina area. This position combines deep individual technical contribution with technical leadership. The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for requirements definition, detailed design, implementation, and validation of complex electronic systems. The role involves designing and delivering solutions that integrate embedded systems, sensing, FPGA, analog, and power electronics. You will lead your technical team in collaboration with other senior architects, designers, and test/validation groups. Due to Department of Defense contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens to be considered for this position.

Requirements

Expert-level experience designing, implementing, and validating analog, digital, and mixed-signal embedded systems.
Strong experience leading FPGA-based product development.
Fluency in Verilog.
Strong experience designing analog front ends, multi-channel digitizers, digital interconnects, and FPGA- or SoC-based control and data-processing systems.
Experience evaluating, characterizing, and selecting analog sensors for precision measurement applications.
Experience with designing for EMI mitigation, noise immunity, shielding, and galvanic isolation of analog and digital components.
Familiarity with voltage and current sensing technologies for both AC and DC systems in precision measurement applications.
Proficiency with industry-standard electronics design and collaboration tools, including schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium strongly preferred).
Disciplined application of design-for-fabrication, design-for-test, and design-for-reliability best practices.
High competency with standard laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters.
Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Ability to approach complex problems creatively and work effectively with incomplete or evolving specifications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
10+ years of professional experience in the design and implementation of mixed-signal electronics, or a balanced combination of analog and digital system design.
5+ years of FPGA development and implementation experience.
Experience serving as lead designer or architect for at least two distinct products, subsystems, or major functional modules.
U.S. Citizen (due to Department of Defense contract requirements).

Nice To Haves

Strong experience with Xilinx Ultrascale Plus FPGA development using the Vivado tool suite.
Experience with Zynq SoC platforms.
Embedded software development experience in C/C++.
Designing and implementing low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers to enable software access to sensors, actuators, and communication interfaces.
Embedded software development on Zynq SoC or Xilinx soft cores in Xilinx Vivado/Vitus toolchain (bare-metal and/or Linux, as appropriate).
Familiarity with power systems for medium-voltage DC switching, instrumentation, and control applications.
Experience developing manufacturing test strategies, including first-hand experience implementing JTAG-based test procedures.
Exposure to network cybersecurity products or other high-security or mission-critical hardware systems.
Proven experience transitioning products from functional prototypes through qualification and into low-rate initial production (LRIP).
First-hand experience guiding products through certification and homologation testing, including FCC emissions compliance and UL or equivalent safety requirements.

Responsibilities

Requirements definition, detailed design, implementation, and validation of complex electronic systems.
Designing and delivering solutions that integrate embedded systems, sensing, FPGA, analog, and power electronics.
Leading technical teams in collaboration with other senior architects, designers, and test/validation groups.
Designing, implementing, and validating analog, digital, and mixed-signal embedded systems, including requirements definition, analog and digital design, schematic capture, PCB layout, fabrication and assembly vendor coordination, bring-up, debugging, rework, testing, and transition to production.
Leading FPGA-based product development, including hands-on implementation of FPGA-based control and data-processing systems and integration into larger systems.
Developing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality FPGA RTL designs in Verilog.
Designing analog front ends, multi-channel digitizers, digital interconnects, and FPGA- or SoC-based control and data-processing systems.
Evaluating, characterizing, and selecting analog sensors for precision measurement applications.
Designing for EMI mitigation, noise immunity, shielding, and galvanic isolation of analog and digital components.
Developing manufacturing test strategies, including first-hand experience implementing JTAG-based test procedures.
Guiding products through certification and homologation testing, including FCC emissions compliance and UL or equivalent safety requirements.