Sr. Electrical Engineer

As a key member of the Electrical and FPGA development team, you will create, design and test complex designs for the next generation of thermal imaging products. In this role, the primary responsibility is leading projects, creating design concepts, researching approaches, creating block diagrams, and present concepts to the engineering team for review. Secondly, you will be implementing designs using schematic capture tools and identify critical components and signals for PCB Layout. Lastly, you will lead the integration and debug of new designs and participate with the transfer of completed products to production.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Derive requirements for electronics design tasks from system specifications and by working with both internal and external customers.
• Perform system design trades relating to hardware and software.
• Design digital electronics including, but not limited to, digital video systems, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), microprocessors for system control/communications, DAC/ADC circuitry.
• Work with development teams including System, Software, Mechanical and PC layout engineers to refine requirements and interfaces.
• Experience with designing FPGAs from block diagram to coding in HDL (Verilog, VHDL)
• Work with Project/Program managers to define schedules and with Manufacturing to define test and assembly processes.
• Design verification including the creation of test plans, generation of test stimulus, running tests, debugging hardware and reporting results for the integration and production phase of products.
• Prepare and present design reviews to teams and other groups of customers, Participates in technical design reviews of existing designs and peer reviews
• Generate schematics, layouts, BOMs and design rules to flow down board design requirements to PC board designer and work with board designer to develop high quality circuit card assemblies to be used inside EO/IR systems
• Work with vendors and purchasing to specify components.
• Responsible for releasing and maintaining complete design documentation according to procedures and supporting manufacturing and customers throughout the life of the product.
• Work closely with other designers as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Other duties may be assigned

Job Qualifications:

• Candidate must be a U.S. citizen due to program requirements.
• Experience with digital electronics circuit design.
• Experience working with FPGA tools such as Xilinx/AMD or Lattice.
• Experience working with schematics and printed circuit board layout software; Siemens PADS and Altium Designer preferred but not required.
• Experience with Block Diagram software packages such as Visio and/or Autocad.
• Knowledge of electronic sensors and controls.
• Knowledge of system interfaces and protocols, such as I2C, CAN, RS232/422, Aurora, AXI, etc.
• A practical understanding of standard engineering and documentation processes.
• Experience managing outside design houses when resources are thin.
• Cable design experience.
• Experience using oscilloscopes and other lab equipment.

Education and Experience:

• BSEE degree or similar
• 10 years’ experience of directly related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Other engineering or science degree considered with strong experience in, and emphasis on, electronics design and systems.