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Electrical Hardware Design Engineer – Job Description Job Title: Hardware Engineer Department: Engineering Reports To: Functional Team Lead / Program Manager FLSA Status: Exempt / Full-time Salary Range: $110,000 - $150,000 Annually (depending on experience) ROLE We are seeking an Electrical Hardware Design Engineer with 5 to 10 years of experience designing complex, high-reliability PCBAs for military, aerospace, or similarly demanding applications. The engineer will own hardware development from requirements and schematic design through PCB layout, bring-up, qualification, and production release. Responsibilities include schematic design, PCB layout leadership, power distribution architecture, signal and power integrity, electrical interface integration, and EMI/EMC-conscious design. Hands-on layout experience with complex designs is preferred. Strong expertise in digital and mixed-signal design is required, along with experience in hardware bring-up, laboratory debug, verification and validation, and root-cause analysis. The engineer will ensure hardware meets electrical, environmental, reliability, and military/aerospace qualification requirements, while providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams. RESPONSIBILITIES • Lead or support hardware development from requirements and architecture through schematic design, board bring-up, validation and system integration. • Develop and document hardware requirements, block diagrams, interface definitions, and design trade studies. • Perform schematic capture and guide PCB layout activities including component placement, routing strategies, and DFM/DFT considerations. • Support prototype production, vendor coordination, BOM creation, and resolution of fabrication or assembly issues. • Lead and execute board bring-up, debug, and validation testing using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and other lab instruments. • Troubleshoot hardware issues at the circuit, component, and system level and provide clear corrective actions. • Develop test plans, test procedures, and test reports with traceability to requirements. • Collaborate with firmware, systems, manufacturing, and test teams during integration, qualification, and production transition. • Contribute to improvements in design processes, engineering documentation, and hardware standards. REQUIRED SKILLS • Strong proficiency with schematic capture tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, or Mentor. • Experience with high-speed digital design, mixed signal design, or power distribution design. • Hands-on experience with PCBA bring-up and board-level debugging. • Solid understanding of analog circuits, digital circuits, and power electronics fundamentals. • Familiarity with requirements analysis and traceability. • Strong lab skills using oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and related tools. • Proficiency with microcontroller-based systems, FPGA or CPLD interfaces, SOC hardware designs. • Ability to write test procedures and document results clearly. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. PREFERRED SKILLS • Familiarity with manufacturing processes including PCB fabrication, SMT assembly, and design for manufacturability or test. • Experience with environmental or qualification testing such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704, DO-160, or similar standards. • Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, SpaceWire and Ethernet. • Experience supporting environmental stress screening or similar production tests. • Experience with revision control and issue tracking systems. QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field. • Minimum 5 years, 7-10 preferred, of relevant experience in electronic design. • US Person required; ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance. • Position located in Melbourne, FL or Greenville, SC (not remote).

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Electrical Hardware Design Engineer – Job Description
Job Title: Hardware Engineer
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Functional Team Lead / Program Manager
FLSA Status: Exempt / Full-time
The engineer will ensure hardware meets electrical, environmental, reliability, and military/aerospace qualification requirements, while providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Lead or support hardware development from requirements and architecture through schematic design, board bring-up, validation and system integration.
Develop and document hardware requirements, block diagrams, interface definitions, and design trade studies.
Perform schematic capture and guide PCB layout activities including component placement, routing strategies, and DFM/DFT considerations.
Support prototype production, vendor coordination, BOM creation, and resolution of fabrication or assembly issues.
Lead and execute board bring-up, debug, and validation testing using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power analyzers, and other lab instruments.
Troubleshoot hardware issues at the circuit, component, and system level and provide clear corrective actions.
Develop test plans, test procedures, and test reports with traceability to requirements.
Collaborate with firmware, systems, manufacturing, and test teams during integration, qualification, and production transition.
Contribute to improvements in design processes, engineering documentation, and hardware standards.
Strong proficiency with schematic capture tools such as Altium Designer, OrCAD, or Mentor.
Experience with high-speed digital design, mixed signal design, or power distribution design.
Hands-on experience with PCBA bring-up and board-level debugging.

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Familiarity with manufacturing processes including PCB fabrication, SMT assembly, and design for manufacturability or test.
Experience with environmental or qualification testing such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704, DO-160, or similar standards.
Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, SpaceWire and Ethernet.
Experience supporting environmental stress screening or similar production tests.
Experience with revision control and issue tracking systems.
Minimum 5 years, 7-10 preferred, of relevant experience in electronic design.

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