Senior Hardware Design Engineer - Rugged Embedded Defense
Job Description
Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Rugged Embedded Defense
\n Huntsville, AL (On-site)
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Be the design authority on rugged SBCs, FPGA/DSP carriers, and sensor processing boards for defense and aerospace, from architecture through bring-up and production release.
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Must-Haves
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- BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
- 7+ years in embedded hardware design or electronic product development
- Strong grasp of PC architecture, processor-based systems, and interconnects
- Schematic capture, component selection, and hands-on PCB placement and routing
- High-speed design: differential signaling, loss, and crosstalk
- Board bring-up, root-cause debug, and verification and validation
- Writes test plans and validates against requirements
- US Citizen or Green Card holder
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What You'll Do
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- Design hardware with Intel and ARM processors, DDR4/DDR5, FPGAs, MPSoCs, and RFSoCs
- Build high-speed architectures with PCIe and multi-gigabit Ethernet
- Own programs from requirements through production release and sustainment
- Work with FPGA, software, systems, manufacturing, and program teams
- Influence product architecture and engineering practices
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Nice-to-Haves
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- Mentor Expedition, Cadence, or Altium
- Signal integrity analysis and DFM
- Ruggedized defense or aerospace electronics
- C/C++ or Python, plus Linux and Windows
- Backplanes, I/O architectures, and network processors, GPUs, or FPGAs
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What You'll Get
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- $150K to $170K
- Relocation assistance
- Minimal travel, direct hire
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About the Company
\n A global maker of rugged, open-architecture embedded computing for defense, aerospace, and industrial use.