Senior Hardware Engineer

Per Vices Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Per Vices Corporation in Toronto is seeking a skilled Senior Hardware Engineer to support the design and debugging of Software Defined Radios. The role involves writing clear code, developing hardware, and utilizing lab equipment to test performance.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience and a strong grasp of circuit design and embedded Linux. This role offers opportunities to work on high-performance products and the chance to contribute to advanced digital design.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in hardware engineering.
• Proficiency in using standard lab equipment like oscilloscopes and multi-meters.
• Strong background in circuit board design and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Support design, manufacturing, testing, and debugging of Software Defined Radios.
• Write hardware drivers and quantify performance using test equipment.
• Work with high performance products in digital design and embedded Linux.

Skills

Hardware debugging

Programming

Digital design

Embedded Linux

Circuit board design

Tools

Oscilloscope

Multi-meter

Signal generator

Vector Network Analyzer

Job description

We are looking for a senior hardware engineer to help support the design, manufacturing, testing, and debugging of our Software Defined Radios. This position will see you design and develop hardware, carry out initial bring up (including writing hardware drivers for various components), and using test equipment of quantify performance and support debugging. The applicant must be able to write clean, easy to understand code, posses strong logical reasoning skills, and ideally have previous experience in hardware debugging and bring up. Experience using git and Linux distribution is also an asset. The applicant will be working with high performance products in the fields of digital design, microcontroller development, and embedded Linux (including device driver development).

Mandatory Qualifications

The following experience is required, and should be included with the application;

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience
• Use of standard lab equipment (Oscilloscopes, multi-meter, signal generators, Vector Network Analyzers)
• Design, integrating, and interfacing to external chip sets, processors, and/or micro controllers in C (including use of SPI/UART/I2C)
• Programming Experience
• Circuit board design (schematic capture/layout) and manufacturing

Experience in three or more of the following areas:

• Using ADCs or DACs for data collection or waveform excitation.
• Initial hardware bring up
• Product quality assurance
• RF Design and testing
• Writing technical support documentation, or product conformity / testing reports.

Optional Qualifications

The following skills are desired but not necessarily required for the position:

• Familiarity with git version control
• Software Optimization using profilers
• Experience working with software defined radios
• Regularly uses version control
• Brief knowledge of wireless radio networks
• Mixed signal board layout and schematic capture
• Component selection, procurement and BOM management
• RF fundamentals in SDR devices
• Open source projects: OpenBTS, UHD Driver, Yocto Project
• Kernel hacking and PCIe driver development
• Experience with multipath compensation/rake receivers
• Experience in development from design to manufacturing
• Familiarity with phased arrays and their digital implementation