About this role
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Title: Sr Specialist, Hardware Design Engineer</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Code: 40130</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Location: Salt Lake City, Utah</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Job Schedule: 9/80- Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off</span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong>Job Description:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">We are seeking an ambitious hardware engineer to help us design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications. As a member of our team, you’ll help us build groundbreaking digital and RF circuits for the special operations and intelligence communities to address challenging national security problems and enable planning and decision making in domains as diverse as active threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and applied data analytics. You’ll join a multidisciplinary team of engineers who believe in fostering an open, collaborative work environment to solve complex problems.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">As a Hardware Design Engineer, you will assist in the development of communications systems through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercially available chipsets, and embedded processors. Product Design: Schematic Capture, Simulations, PCB analysis and layout.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong>Essential Functions:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Document your designs from requirements, testing procedures and bill of material.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Perform detailed performance and functional measurements and debug at a hardware level.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Create custom Circuit Cards, utilizing FPGAs, Embedded Processors, networking components, and other electronic components.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Performance characterization of hardware over a wide variety environment condition.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Use Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4 JESD, PCIe, 1000BASE-T).</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Support test engineering with transition of hardware to manufacturing testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Contribute to design review, system integration.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong>Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><strong>Preferred Additional Skills:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Master’s </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Minimum of 3 years of experience with CCA and Hardware Design experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Familiar with lab test equipment.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Minimum of 4 years’ experience with hardware verification, schematic capture, PCB Layout.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Experience with Mentor Graphic’s tools is preferred.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/ClearCase.</span></li> <li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">Familiarity with Confluence or other information sharing tools.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="color:white;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif">#LI-CS3</span></p>