Our exciting Space client are looking for a Lead Hardware Engineer to play a critical role in both leading and contributing to cutting-edge hardware development through all phases of the development cycle: requirements gathering and definition, design, development, prototyping, implementation, verification, testing, integration, calibration, and documentation.
What you'll do:
Architect, design, develop, manufacture, and test the next generation Hardware, Sensors & Systems.
Be responsible for hardware through all phases of the development cycle: requirements gathering and definition, design, manufacturing, implementation testing, integration, calibration, documentation, and ownership through final release and delivery.
Lead and functionally manage a Hardware Team of 4 Engineers.
Contribute to the company's engineering culture by implementing best engineering practices and helping to improve on existing processes and procedures.
Design, document, implement, simulate, and test new hardware designs including planning and estimation of the required tasks.
Develop and document requirements and specifications of digital hardware and systems.
Actively engage with both internal and external customers.
Experience Required (mix of the below)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering ideally with 10+ years of relevant experience.
Experience being an effective technical team leader with skills in managing and maintaining the execution of an interdisciplinary engineering team.
Ability to work in an agile environment with changing priorities & demonstrated experience mixing serial hardware development with software development that utilizes Agile methodology.
Experience working with Altium circuit design and layout tool packages (or similar complex development tools)
Experience with large FPGAs (Xilinx Ultrascale, Xilinx Ultrascale+, et cetera) and high-speed Multi-Gbps transceivers (JESD204, PCIE, 10GigE, et cetera) including signal integrity analysis and implementation of the copper transmission paths.
Experience with low speed interfaces (USB, SPI, UART, SpaceWire)
Experience with designing multi giga-sample ADCs & DACs
Experience with board bring-up, debugging, and validation experience, including development of Test Procedures
Experience with designing for Space/Radiation environments
Electrical Systems Engineering experience (i.e., working to derive requirements from end-use applications).