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Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Rugged Embedded Defense
Huntsville, AL (On-site)

Be the design authority on rugged SBCs, FPGA/DSP carriers, and sensor processing boards for defense and aerospace, from architecture through bring-up and production release.

Must-Haves

• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 7+ years in embedded hardware design or electronic product development
• Strong grasp of PC architecture, processor-based systems, and interconnects
• Schematic capture, component selection, and hands-on PCB placement and routing
• High-speed design: differential signaling, loss, and crosstalk
• Board bring-up, root-cause debug, and verification and validation
• Writes test plans and validates against requirements
• US Citizen or Green Card holder

What You'll Do

• Design hardware with Intel and ARM processors, DDR4/DDR5, FPGAs, MPSoCs, and RFSoCs
• Build high-speed architectures with PCIe and multi-gigabit Ethernet
• Own programs from requirements through production release and sustainment
• Work with FPGA, software, systems, manufacturing, and program teams
• Influence product architecture and engineering practices

Nice-to-Haves

• Mentor Expedition, Cadence, or Altium
• Signal integrity analysis and DFM
• Ruggedized defense or aerospace electronics
• C/C++ or Python, plus Linux and Windows
• Backplanes, I/O architectures, and network processors, GPUs, or FPGAs

What You'll Get

• $150K to $170K
• Relocation assistance
• Minimal travel, direct hire

About the Company
A global maker of rugged, open-architecture embedded computing for defense, aerospace, and industrial use.