Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

Coherent Corp. US • Horsham, PA

92d

About The Position

The position involves new product development, legacy sustaining, and technical development in the field of electrical engineering, specifically focusing on telecommunications and embedded systems. The role requires extensive experience in hardware design, particularly in high-speed digital circuits and optical signal detection. The candidate will work closely with manufacturing teams, provide customer technical support, and coach junior engineers.

Requirements

• B.Sc. degree or above in electronics engineering, telecommunication.
• 8+ years of board-level or system-level hardware design experience in the telecommunications or embedded systems.
• Proven expertise in high-speed digital circuit design, with hands-on experience developing telecom line cards.
• Strong skills in analog circuit simulation and practical implementation.
• Experience in designing high sensitivity optical signal detection circuits.
• Solid background in FPGA-based control system circuit design, including interface and logic integration.
• Experience with EDFA (Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier), OTDR (Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer), or OCM (Optical Channel Monitor) products is a strong plus.

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with hardware circuit design tools such as Orcad and Cadence Allegro.
• Deep understanding of hardware design and engineering process (PCB and PCBA) and quality control is required.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-cultural and global team environments.
• Excellent teamwork, self-motivated and responsible.

Responsibilities

• New product development – 70%: Electrical design throughout feasibility study, solution simulation and verification, schematic creating, BOM management, PCBA bring-up, function verification test including signal integrity check for key signals and generate test report.
• Working with manufacturing team to develop manufacturing electrical functional tests.
• Customer technical support.
• Work with NPI and Test Eng teams to transfer design to manufacture.
• Legacy Sustaining – 20%: RMA investigations and implementation of corrective actions.
• Handle part EOL or part shortage in mass production, suggest alternative part, do verification and ECO to introduction the parts.
• Technical Development – 10%: Improving product density is a key mandate. Identify technologies to reduce product power consumption and required pcba area. Coach junior hardware engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees