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Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Huntsville, AL

The Company

Join a global leader in rugged embedded computing solutions serving some of the world's most demanding defense, aerospace, industrial, and commercial applications. With a strong reputation for high-performance, open-architecture computing, the organization develops advanced electronics designed to operate reliably in mission-critical environments.

The Huntsville engineering organization works on sophisticated embedded computing platforms used across air, land, and sea defense programs, as well as high-reliability industrial applications.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

Work on advanced Single Board Computers (SBCs), FPGA/DSP carrier boards, sensor processing modules, and I/O products

Design next-generation hardware using Intel and ARM processors, DDR4/DDR5, FPGAs, MPSoCs, and RFSoCs

Develop high-speed digital architectures involving PCIe and multi-Gigabit Ethernet

Take technical ownership of complex hardware programs from architecture and design through board bring-up, validation, and production release

Collaborate with experienced hardware, FPGA, software, systems, product management, manufacturing, and program teams

Have the opportunity to influence product architecture, engineering processes, emerging technologies, and best practices

Join a Huntsville engineering organization working on technology where performance, reliability, and ruggedization are critical

They Value and Appreciate Their Employees

This is an opportunity to join an engineering-driven organization where senior engineers are trusted with significant technical ownership and are encouraged to bring forward new ideas and approaches.

Your Role with the Company

As a Senior Hardware Design Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical contributor and design authority for complex embedded hardware programs. You will design, develop, test, debug, and support advanced electronic systems while working with a high degree of independence. You will design digital hardware incorporating Intel and ARM-based processors, DDR memory, FPGAs, MPSoCs, and RFSoCs, along with high-speed interfaces such as DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, and multi-Gigabit Ethernet.

Community Information

Huntsville, Alabama, known as Rocket City, is one of the country's leading engineering and technology communities. The city has a strong concentration of aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, and technology employers, creating an environment with a deep technical talent base.

Background Profile

Must Have

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.

7+ years of relevant experience in electrical engineering, embedded hardware design, or electronic product development, consistent with the original role profile.

Strong understanding of PC architecture, processor-based embedded systems, and hardware interconnects.

Demonstrated PCB design capability, including schematic capture, component selection, and hands-on PCB placement and routing.

Strong understanding of high-speed PCB design considerations, including differential signaling and practical effects such as transmission-line loss and crosstalk.

Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, root-cause debug, and product verification/validation.

Ability to develop test and verification plans and validate hardware against product requirements.

Self-starting approach to problem-solving and ability to work independently through complex technical issues.

Willingness and ability to contribute across the complete product development lifecycle, from requirements and concept through design, bring-up/debug, verification/validation, production release, and sustainment.

Desired

Experience with Mentor Expedition Dx or comparable schematic/layout tools

Familiarity with ARM processors is good. In-depth knowledge of support processors like network processors, GPUs, FPGAs, etc. is a value-add for this position.

Experience with signal integrity analysis

Experience with industry-leading CAD tools like Mentor Graphics, Cadence, or Altium is preferred.

Experience with design for manufacturability and production release

Experience designing ruggedized electronics for defense, aerospace, industrial, or other high-reliability applications

F amiliarity with Linux and Windows is important, Knowledge of C-code or Python code development important.

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