What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hardware Developer position at NDI?
Location: Shelburne, Vermont, USA
Expected Travel: 10%
Employment Type: Full-Time - Regular
Compensation Range: $80.000.00 - $95,000.00
AT NDI, THE WORK YOU DO HERE MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Every day, we help shape the future of healthcare. We design and build 3D tracking systems that equip medical devices with advanced spatial navigation technology, delivering greater accuracy, performance, and confidence in procedures where precision is critical. Since 1981, we’ve partnered with leading OEMs and research institutes to push the boundaries of surgical navigation. Our optical and electromagnetic technologies are trusted in procedures ranging from orthopedics and spine surgery to cardiac interventions and radiation therapy.
Whether you're designing systems, supporting customers, or enabling the teams behind them, your work matters. It brings clarity to healthcare and helps improve outcomes for patients around the world.
How You Will Make an Impact
You will be responsible for detailed design and development of electromagnetic tracking systems, from conception to implementation, and will work as part of a cross-functional R&D team, building solutions for our OEM partners. This role requires someone with a proven record of implementing and integrating embedded hardware systems. The successful candidate will be dependable, highly organized, and effective at hardware design and implementation, as well as system integration, documentation support and test.
The successful candidate will be joining our team of professionals at the Northern Digital office located in Shelburne, Vermont, USA.
What you’ll be Doing:
In addition to hardware design, you are expected to:
- Design to NDI’s internal development standards, and produce associated technical documentation to meet design control requirements, including documenting requirements and specifications
- Help the team to collaborate and integrate designs with the embedded system software group
- Prepare material and participate in peer reviews
- Participate in defining/developing appropriate tests for the embedded designs
- Ensure completion is timely, striving to meet or exceed project milestones
What you’ll bring to the role:
- BS or advanced degree in Electrical engineering or other related technical discipline, with 2 years of experience doing HW design.
- Circuit and layout design and review for mixed signal circuits
- Familiarity with lab equipment used to circuit analysis and troubleshoot
- Signal processing concepts
- ARM processors, FPGA design, wireless/Bluetooth design, digital interfaces
- Familiarity with Python, Linux, Altium
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
- A fit with NDI culture: Customer Focus, Win Together, Results Driven, Improve with Purpose
- Excellent problem solving and trouble shooting skills
- Ability to initiate and take on work independently with minimal guidance
- Good personal organization as well as written and oral communication skills
- Capability for generating technical design documentation
Desired Characteristics/Additional Assets:
- Magnetics/physics/mathematics background
- Analog design, including Spice simulation knowledge
- Experience integrating with FPGAs
THE BENEFITS OF JOINING OUR TEAM
- A comprehensive benefits package that supports your health and well-being.
- Company-wide bonus program and regular salary reviews.
- Competitive pay with a 4% 401k match to help you plan for the future.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering discounted company shares to help you invest in and benefit from our growth.
- Three weeks of vacation start, plus a paid holiday shutdown in December to recharge before the New Year!
- Professional and personal development support designed to foster your continuous growth and career advancement.
- Work where your contributions are valued — as a multi-year winner of Best Places to Work in Vermont Employers
- Part of a growing global company with offices in Ontario, Vermont, Germany, and Hong Kong.
- Conveniently located in popular Shelburne, Vermont and 45 minutes to the ski and snowboard resorts of the Green Mountains.
- 20 minutes to Burlington, Vermont International Airport and 15 minutes to the shores of Lake Champlain and the Burlington Surf Club.
- Located in a campus like setting that includes courtyard, large outdoor areas, skylights, and ample parking.
- Steps away from Shelburne Museum which hosts frequent festivals and a summer concert series.
If you’re looking to join a collaborative and curious team—guided by integrity, bold thinking, and a commitment to doing things right—this could be the team for you. We believe in supporting one another and working together to find creative solutions. You’ll be surrounded by people who are passionate about what they do and driven by work that truly makes a difference.
If this sounds like the right fit for you, we invite you to apply online and introduce yourself.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities:
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)