What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Hardware Engineer position at Adtran?
The Senior Hardware Engineer will be a member of a team responsible for designing Coherent Pluggable Optical Transceiver modules for metro, core and data center applications. Senior Engineer will have a proven competency in the areas of electronic design, Microcontrollers and Signal Integrity management.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop block diagrams and schematics from initial concept phase
- Specify, design, test, integrate and release new products to production
- Create Hardware Unit Design specification and test plans
- Work cross functionally within all R&D disciplines in order to meet design objectives
- Provide engineering support for designs in production and transfer of products to contract manufacturers
- Provide guidance to CAD designers during PCB design
- Work closely with layout engineers
- Work closely with the FPGA/FW/Test engineering team during integration phase of the product
- Utilize Ansys “HFFS” 3D solver for circuit design and high speed simulations
- Complete the full product design life cycle on a portion of the system involving multiple components
- Work independently on the assigned design activities with minimal supervision
- Understand the product architecture, design, processes, tools, etc. required to perform their assigned design activities
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Physics
- Operates at the equivalent of an engineer with 5 plus years’ relevant experience (high-speed board design)
- High proficiency using schematic design tools (e.g. Xpedition) and EM simulation tools (HFSS/ADS) is a must
- Experience in Coherent Pluggable XCVR design a big plus.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
- Experience with high-speed RF measurements and characterization equipment
- Strong fundamentals in EM and RF such as impedance matching, S-parameters
- Experience with Spectrum Analyzer, Network Analyzer, Logic, Analyzer, Function Generator, and BER test sets
- Experience in fiber optics test and measurements
Preferred Qualification
- sMaster’s Degree in Electrical Engineerin
- gMentor Graphics DxDesigner (schematics), Hyperlynx (SI, PI), SW proficiency is a plu
- sExperience with coherent optical systems is a plus
- .Knowledgeable on optical component reliability and telecom performance standards such as Telcordia, IEC, and ITU is highly desirabl
- eProven competency in the areas of signal integrity management utilizing Ansys HFSS is highly desirabl
- eWorking experience of optical transceivers is a bonu
- sProgramming skills in LabView, Python, or Matlab for test purposes is a bonu
sSuccess Criteri
- aAble to drive design teams, component vendors and manufacturing partner
- sAble to generate high quality design documents (High level design and Unit Test
- )Good communication skills, both written and verba
- lSelf-motivated and able to perform with minimal supervisio
- nHas knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular fiel
- dRelies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the jo