Senior Hardware Engineer

Per Vices Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Per Vices Corporation is seeking a senior hardware engineer in Toronto to design, develop, test, and debug hardware for Software Defined Radios. You will perform bring-up, write drivers, and use lab equipment to quantify performance.

The role involves embedded Linux, microcontrollers, RF design, and high-speed digital design. Candidates should have 4+ years of hands-on hardware experience, PCB design skills, and proficiency in C.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Use of standard lab equipment (Oscilloscopes, multimeters, signal generators, vector network analyzers).
• Design, interfacing to external chipsets/processors/microcontrollers in C (SPI/UART/I2C).
• Programming experience required.
• Circuit board design (schematic capture/layout) and manufacturing.
• Experience in three+ of the following areas: RF design/testing, data acquisition with ADCs/DACs, hardware bring up, QA, documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop hardware for Software Defined Radios.
• Carry out bring-up and write hardware drivers.
• Test, debug, and quantify performance using lab equipment.
• Work with high-performance digital design, microcontrollers, and embedded Linux.

Skills

Hardware debugging

C programming

Git & Linux

Testing & debugging

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Vector Network Analyzers

Multimeter

Signal generators

PCB design tools

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