Lead Digital Hardware Engineer

The role

The Lead Digital Hardware Engineer will lead small teams to design, develop, integrate, and test novel sensing and counter sensing systems. This role involves designing complex high speed digital circuit card assemblies and supporting system testing and troubleshooting.

What you will do

• Design complex high speed digital circuit card assemblies
• Lead and work with small, multi-disciplinary teams to design, build, and test hardware systems
• Lead the team to quantify goals, system performance objectives, metrics, dependencies, and risks
• Support test and troubleshooting of systems, modules, and sub-assemblies of digital modules
• Perform signal-integrity, power-integrity, and timing analysis
• Generate and review test procedures, drawings, engineering specifications, reports, and other documentation
• Conduct digital system performance trade studies and analyses of proposed architectures
• Interface with government sponsors and suppliers
• Mentor peers and more junior engineers

Required qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• PhD + 2 years, MS + 5 years, or BS + 7 years of experience in digital circuit card design assemblies and working with design, build, integration and test of complex electronic systems
• Experience defining digital interfaces, clocking schemes, and system architecture for hardware built around microcontrollers, FPGAs/SoCs, and data-converter ICs
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces (e.g., PCIe, SerDes, Ethernet, DDR) and with signal-integrity analysis
• Experience working with CAD based schematic capture and simulation tools such as Altium Designer
• Familiarity collaborating on RF systems and subsystems
• Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python and/or other higher-level languages
• Strong Mathematical, troubleshooting, written, and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• Excellent problem-solving skills, judgement, and analytical capability
• Motivated self-starter with leaderships kills and ability to effectively work in a team environment
• Ability to apply novel, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to challenging engineering problems
• Ability to create and present briefings to customers and senior management

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required
• Ability to obtain a security clearance

About the company

STR is a growing technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. They have locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, Carlsbad, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Denver, CO.