Senior Hardware Engineer

Per Vices Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Per Vices Corporation in Toronto is seeking a senior hardware engineer to design and bring up hardware for Software Defined Radios. You will write hardware drivers, work with Linux-based systems, and debug using high-end test equipment.

The role requires strong C programming, RF/Digital design fundamentals, and collaboration with firmware teams to ensure high-performance execution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in hardware engineering.
• Experience designing, integrating, and interfacing to external chipsets.
• Proficient in C for embedded systems and hardware bring-up.

Responsibilities

• Design hardware for SDR devices and embedded systems.
• Carry out initial bring up, debugging, and driver development.
• Use test equipment to quantify performance and reliability.
• Prepare technical documentation and reports.

Skills

Hardware design

C programming

Embedded Linux

Debugging

Git version control

Lab debugging with test equipment

Signal integrity

RF fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

PCB design software (Altium)

Oscilloscope/Vector Network Analyzer

SPI/UART/I2C interfaces

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