Hardware Design Engineer Digital Systems

Job Title Hardware Design Engineer Digital Systems

Location: St. Charles Mo. ( must live in the area) Hybrid role 63146

Salary Base around $120K to $140K depending on experience

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or equivalent degree or experience.
• Technical Skills:
  • Experience with FPGA design (e.g. VHDL Verilog) and modern CPU architectures.
  • Proficient in hardware development tools (e.g. Altium OrCAD Eagle) for schematic capture and PCB layout.
  • Understanding of lowspeed digital design signal integrity and power management with occasional involvement in highspeed considerations.
  • Knowledge of analog circuit design and interfacing with digital systems.
  • Ability to design systems in accordance with compliance standards (e.g. FCC CE RoHS).
  • Experience with circuit simulation tools (e.g. SPICE MATLAB) for signal analysis.
• ProblemSolving: Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware design challenges.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively document designs and collaborate across teams.
• Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver highquality designs under tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with lowpower design embedded systems and highspeed interfaces.
• Understanding of international hardware compliance requirements in regions like Europe Asia and beyond.
• Knowledge of automotive industrial or consumer electronics applications.
• Experience designing missioncritical products.
• Familiarity with automated hardware validation and test equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Digital and Analog Design: Design and develop hardware systems focusing approximately 8090% on digital circuits with analog in a supporting role. Typical projects involve Power over Ethernet (PoE) and power supply work supporting broader system requirements.
• FPGA and CPU Design: Implement and configure Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and modern Central Processing Units (CPUs) in hardware designs.
• Develop FPGAbased and CPUbased solutions for highperformance applications in primarily lowspeed systems with occasional highspeed aspects as design complexities evolve.
• PoE Standards Compliance: Work on designs adhering to IEEE 802.3 standards initially with basic PoE requirements and expanding to address higher power demands.
• Power Supply Development: Responsible for designing power supplies both from scratch and integrating COTS (Commercial OffTheShelf) power modules as appropriate.
• Component Selection: Evaluate and select components particularly for digital and analog systems optimizing for performance cost and longterm availability.
• Tool Utilization: Primary tool preference includes Altium for PCB design with flexibility on other tools (Jira MATLAB etc.) for circuit simulation signal integrity power integrity EMI/EMC or thermal analysis. Altium is recommended. .
• Design for Compliance and Production Testing and Debugging Documentation CrossFunctional Collaboration Continuous Improvement.
  
  Job description
  Were seeking a skilled and innovative Hardware Design Engineer specializing primarily in digital systems with a supporting role in analog design to join our engineering team.
  This role requires designing highperformance systems while adhering to established regulatory requirements ensuring successful integration into larger products.
  The ideal candidate will focus on designing hardware solutions including FPGAs and modern CPUs in accordance with domestic and international compliance standards.

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