Digital Design Engineer

Job Description:

This role will be supporting engineering development, integration, test and transition to production efforts on complex electronic modules. Candidate will provide electrical engineering support to a dynamic engineering development team, leading first unit test, design verification test, integration and transition to production tasks on complex digital circuit cards and modules.

The successful candidate must possess strong technical aptitude, communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally within the hardware organization and with other engineering disciplines/functions. Must be able to exercise discretion and independent judgment in technical areas.

This position may include the following activities:

• Design of complex high speed digital circuit card assemblies including PCIe
• Lead/Mentor a team of junior engineers
• Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules and sub-assemblies of digital modules, working directly with program engineering personnel as required
• Interface with Engineering, Operations, Quality and other supporting functions to drive defect resolution to root cause
• Generate and implement improvements in product and test design and methodologies to reduce cost, increase yield, and improve throughput
• Generate and review the technical content of test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, Engineering Change Orders, and other documentation
• Interface with governmental customers and suppliers as required
• Provide training and support to technicians and manufacturing personnel as required
• Support Root Cause and Corrective Action activities
• Mentor peers and more junior engineers in areas of expertise

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Typically, a bachelor’s degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience
• High speed digital design of circuit card assemblies
• Experience with the design, build, integration and/or test of complex electronic systems.
• Able to research and apply electrical engineering principles and theories to solve electrical engineering problems.
• Eligible for DOD Security Clearance

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills:

Industrial temperature or better digital circuit card design

• FPGA based circuit card design.
• Embedded processors, PCIe, Ethernet, 1553, SERDES, Fiber Optic, DDR3/DDR4
• CAD based schematic capture and simulation (Mentor/Siemens Xpedition)
• Able to direct layout and routing rules
• Pre & Post routing simulation using HyperLynx
• Demonstrated design success - meet difficult design requirements
• Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills.
• Motivated self-starter with leadership skills and ability to effectively work in a team environment - Team Leader
• Excellent problem-solving skills, judgment, and analytical capability.
• Ability to close on discrete tasking in a timely manner and lead others to closure - Own the Design
• Experience presenting technical information to program teams and/or customers.