Lexington, MA30+ days ago
Responsibilities: - Test and debug of miniature hardware spanning RF front-end, transceivers, SoCs, baseband processors - Design of communication hardware targeting miniature form-factors - Writing and support of design validation and test plans - Collaboration with RF engineers, software engineers, mechanical engineers, and waveform analysts Required Skills: - Experience with the part selection, schematic capture, layout, and test of complex mixed-signal boards targeting SoCs or FPGAs with all relevant clocking, power, and high-rate interfaces - Experience working in desktop and embedded Linux - Experience with one or more scripting/embedded programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Bash - Experience with typical lab equipment including high-speed oscilloscopes, bench power supplies, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators - Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar - Experience working on cross-disciplinary teams with Mechanical and RF engineers Nice-to-have: - Experience designing cost- and size-sensitive baseband hardware for commercial, cellular, or military applications - Experience with high-reliability design for aerospace and military applications - Experience with designing for medium-rate production up to 1000s / year - Understanding of RF communication systems and digital signal processing, and ability to translate these to hardware requirements for sampling data converters, data processing, and RF performance - Experience with NXP i. Experience with Hardware engineering software (Altium Designer, Orcad, Cadence Allegro) and Electronics tools (soldering irons, magnifiers) Enable Skills-Based Hiring No Qualification Assessment Must Have Degree Level Bachelor's Degree Yes Design Hardware Design (schematic capture, layout, routing and initial bring up) 5 years Electrical/Electronics Design and evaluation of complex electrical systems 5 years Programming Programming Languages (e.g., Perl, Python, C/C++) 3 years Systems Experience with Embedded Linux 1 years Testing Experience with test equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, emulators, and digital multi-meters 3 years Testing frameworks and familiarity with debugging tools 5 years Nice to Have Design High Reliability design for Aerospace and Military 0 years Hardware Experience designing and implementing communication hardware 0 years Experience with Xilinx/AMD FPGAs, MPSoCs, and ACAPs 0 years Software Mentor DxDesigner/Xpedition 0 years Proficiency with Altium (printed circuit-board design software).