Hardware Engineer
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Job Description
Job Title: Hardware Engineer
- Location: Lexington MA (80 % Onsite)
- Job Type: W2 Contract
Background/Need:
The Group develops builds and operates prototype space and airborne Lasercom terminals. The technology developed and the lessons learned from these activities are transferred to operational programs through participation in standards groups and through the operation of a gold standard test infrastructure. Major e orts include demonstration of a lowcost highperformance airborne Lasercom terminal design of Lasercom interoperability standards development of a test capability to validate interoperability among various contractorproduced terminals and investigation into techniques to enable multiple simultaneous Lasercom links through a single aperture. This group has close interactions with government and industrial partners.
Responsibilities:
1. Function as a component engineer assisting the design team on primary component selection availability searches alternate component selection and procurement. Must have a detailed understanding of highreliability component selection and handling as it relates to milaero avionics and space ight programs.
2. Must have a proven track record supporting space ight programs as a component engineer.
3. Provide all BOM (Bill of Materials) management for fabrication including kit assembly veri cation and maintenance of component inventory.
4. Function as the primary interface to fabrication and assembly vendors and provide realtime decision making when dealing with challenges that arise with these processes.
5. Provide schematic capture and layout support for design engineers
6. Support hardware integration by writing testing and debugging LINUX based utilities VHDL test benches and real time LINUX target functional programs supporting a variety of mission needs.
Must Have:
The ability to participate and successfully execute the required job functions within an existing highfunctioning design team.
An indepth understanding of component selection procurement handling reliability and storage.
Must have expert level pro ciency with Mentor Graphics Modelsim Questa DxDesigner and Expedition.
Must have a proven track record interfacing with high rel PCB fabrication and assembly vendors.
Must understand CAD le formats as they relate to PCB fabrication and assembly.
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills indepth knowledge of Xilinx Chipscope for Versal FPGAs and Ultrascale MPSoCs
Experience with debug and handling of space flight hardware
Excellent lab debug skills
Must have the ability to work in an exclusively Linux based environment.
Nice to Have:
Experience with terrestrial network standards including SONET OTN GFP HDLC standards and RTL implementation methods is desired.
Additional languages including Perl TCL and System C is a plus.
Education & Experience: Bachelors with 15 Years of relevant work experience.
Work Authorization: US Citizensh with Active Secret Clearance is required due to the nature of the work.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Employment Type
Full Time
