Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer

Coherent • Horsham, PA

68d

About The Position

The position involves new product development, legacy sustaining, and technical development in the field of electronics engineering, particularly focusing on telecommunications and embedded systems. The role requires extensive experience in hardware design, with a strong emphasis on high-speed digital circuit design and analog circuit simulation. The candidate will be responsible for electrical design, customer technical support, and coaching junior engineers, while also ensuring adherence to quality and environmental standards.

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, OTDR, or OCM 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.
• Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-cultural and global team environments.
• Excellent teamwork, self-motivated and responsible.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Identify technologies to reduce product power consumption.
• Identify technologies to reduce required pcba area.
• Coach junior hardware engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees