Lexington, MA30+ days ago
Responsibilities: - Support and lead integration and test of builds for spaceflight electrical subsystems supporting Laser Communications - Debug of electrical issues for first-of-its-kind hardware, in tandem with an experienced team of HDL, firmware, mechanical, and optical engineers - Write integration and test procedures - Support future architectures and high-speed digital hardware design work Required Skills: - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar - 5+ years of experience as an electrical engineer responsible for design and test of complex mixed-signal hardware, with specific experience as follows: - 5+ years of 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 - 5+ years of experience working on cross-disciplinary teams with Mechanical and RF engineers - 5+ years of experience with typical lab equipment including high-speed oscilloscopes, bench power supplies, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators - 3+ years of experience with one or more scripting/embedded programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Bash - 1+ years of experience working in desktop and embedded Linux Preferred Skills: - M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar - Experience designing and testing high-fidelity hardware for space - Experience with high-reliability design for aerospace and military applications - Understanding of RF or optical communication systems and digital signal processing, and ability to translate these to hardware requirements for sampling data converters, data processing, and circuit performance - Experience with AMD FPGAs, MPSoCs, or ACAPs, with an emphasis on Versal - Experience with board-level design and test of modern SERDES - Experience with board-level design and test of modern RF ADCs and DACs - Experience with board-level design and test of modern DDR memory - Experience with Mentor Graphics Xpedition - Interim clearance is sufficient for start but an active security clearance is highly preferred - Role is 100% onsite due to the nature of the work. 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 Experience Experience providing schematic capture and layout support for design engineers 5 years Test equipment (oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, power supplies, data acquisition) 5 years Program/Project Management OR Analysis Work with Cross-Functional Teams 5 years Programming Programming Languages (e.g., Perl, Python, C/C++) 3 years Systems Experience with Embedded Linux 1 years Nice to Have Degree Level Masters Degree Yes Design High Reliability design for Aerospace and Military 0 years High Speed, Class II, & Class III Designs 0 years Printed Circuit Board Design 0 years Hardware Experience with optical communications hardware 0 years Experience with Xilinx/AMD FPGAs, MPSoCs, and ACAPs 0 years Software Experience with I&T of flight software on high fidelity hardware 0 years Systems Circuit board design using tools (Mentor Graphics Xpedition, Dx Designer, etc.) 0 years Background/Need This High-Speed Digital Hardware Engineer will support the development and testing of electrical subsystems and PCBAs for Laser Communications intended for space.