Senior Specialist, Digital Hardware Design Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a digital hardware design engineer to help design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications. The role supports digital and RF circuit development for special operations and intelligence communities, addressing national security problems across areas including threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and data analytics. The engineer will work with a multidisciplinary team in an open, collaborative environment. The position contributes to communications system development through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercial chipsets, and embedded processors. Product design work includes schematic capture, simulations, PCB analysis, and layout. The role is located in Carlsbad, California, or San Diego, California, and follows a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period for a total of 80 hours, with every other Friday off.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience; or a graduate degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or electrical engineering.
- At least 3 years of experience with circuit card assemblies and digital hardware design.
- Familiarity with laboratory test equipment.
- At least 2 years of experience with digital circuit card verification, schematic capture, and PCB layout.
- Experience with laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTs, and other complex measurement devices.
- Experience with Mentor Graphics tools.
- Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git or ClearCase.
- Familiarity with Confluence or other information-sharing tools.
Responsibilities
- Design custom digital circuit cards using schematic capture tools and incorporating FPGAs, embedded processors, networking components, and other electronic components.
- Implement industry-standard interfaces and memory technologies, including 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4, JESD, PCIe, and 1000BASE-T.
- Develop and maintain circuit card documentation, including requirements, test procedures, and bills of materials.
- Characterize circuit card performance across a wide range of environmental conditions.
- Perform functional and performance measurements, troubleshoot issues, and debug circuit cards.
- Support test engineering in transitioning circuit card testing to manufacturing.
- Participate in design reviews and support circuit card integration into larger systems.
- Perform product design activities including schematic capture, simulations, PCB analysis, and layout.
Benefits
- Health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Education assistance
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Company-paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
