Hardware Design Engineer

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Job Description:

Join the Hardware Engineering team as a Engineer I-Hardware supporting hardware requirements, design, analysis, prototyping, verification, validation, documentation, and lifecycle activities. This entry-level role is ideal for recent graduates or candidates with a foundational understanding of electrical or electronic hardware, semiconductor systems, PCB, analog, digital, RF, FPGA, ASIC, SoC, laboratory validation, or a closely related engineering area.

In this role, you will complete defined hardware engineering assignments with appropriate technical guidance, partner with systems, firmware, software, validation, product, manufacturing, quality, applications, supplier, and customer-facing teams, and help deliver robust technical performance, integration readiness, product quality, and lifecycle support.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and develop defined electrical, electronic, semiconductor, analog, digital, RF, PCB, FPGA, ASIC, SoC, or related hardware elements using approved requirements and designs.
• Support schematic, simulation, component selection, layout review, prototype, bring-up, and integration activities.
• Create and execute defined verification plans, test environments, regressions, characterization, qualification, interoperability, and applicable compliance testing.
• Assist with troubleshooting hardware and hardware/software interaction issues; collect measurements, traces, logs, and reproducible evidence.
• Review specifications, interfaces, test results, defects, risks, and technical tradeoffs with guidance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, specifications, procedures, reports, and records.
• Partner with systems, firmware, software, validation, product, manufacturing, quality, applications, and supplier teams.
• Follow configuration, safety, quality, ESD, laboratory, and applicable compliance controls.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 3 years or less of relevant experience in electrical or electronic hardware engineering, semiconductor systems, PCB, analog, digital, mixed-signal, RF, FPGA, ASIC, SoC, hardware verification and validation, laboratory analysis, hardware/software integration, or closely related equivalent experience.

Qualified candidates should demonstrate analytical thinking, hardware design judgment, structured problem solving, debugging and root-cause analysis, technical documentation, evidence-based communication, cross-functional collaboration, quality focus, and the ability to work with complex electrical, electronic, semiconductor, system, firmware, software, and product information.

Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate:

• Employment stability, reliability, and sustained accountability in prior roles.
• Effective teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
• Integrity and accuracy in representing qualifications, experience, and credentials.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with electrical or electronic hardware, PCB, analog, digital, mixed-signal, RF, FPGA, ASIC, SoC, power, signal integrity, or hardware/software integration.
• Experience with schematic capture, simulation, laboratory instrumentation, prototyping, validation, characterization, qualification, or compliance testing.
• Experience resolving performance, power, timing, signal-integrity, reliability, manufacturability, integration, or field issues.
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

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