Senior Hardware Engineer: Flexible RF & High-Speed Leader

Teradyne; Invercargill City; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid birthday leave

Employee assistance programme

Great staff facilities

Walking distance from ConstellationBus

Job summary

Quantifi Photonics, part of Teradyne, is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead design and development of high-performance electronic hardware for test and measurement instruments in New Zealand. You will work across analogue, digital, embedded, RF, microwave, and high-speed subsystems, from architecture through production release.

The role requires hands-on hardware development, strong analytical skills, and the ability to mentor junior engineers while collaborating across disciplines to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, RF/Microwave Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in hardware product design and development.
• Experience with analogue, digital, embedded, RF, microwave, or high-speed electronic systems.
• Hands-on experience using oscilloscopes, VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, multimeters, LCR meters, and related laboratory equipment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to document technical work clearly and communicate technical trade-offs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop analogue, digital, embedded, RF, microwave, and high-speed electronic hardware and PCB assemblies.
• In collaboration with peers define system and hardware architectures, detailed designs, verification plans, and validation criteria.
• Perform schematic capture, PCB layout oversight, BOM creation, bring-up, debugging, functional testing, and design validation.
• Contribute to the design and optimization of broadband RF front-end modules, amplifiers, attenuators, filters, sampler circuits, and related signal-chain blocks.
• Develop prototypes and evaluate new technologies and product concepts.
• Perform signal integrity, RF, and high-frequency circuit analysis using appropriate simulation tools.
• Correlate simulation results with laboratory and system-level measurements.
• Execute characterization and validation activities using oscilloscopes, VNAs, spectrum analysers, signal generators, LCR meters, and related test equipment.
• Apply established verification, de-embedding, calibration, and measurement practices.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership and autonomy

Education

Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNAs

Spectrum analysers

Signal generators

Multimeters

LCR meters

Job description

Quantifi Photonics, part of Teradyne, is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to lead design and development of high-performance electronic hardware for test and measurement instruments in New Zealand. You will work across analogue, digital, embedded, RF, microwave, and high-speed subsystems, from architecture through production release.

The role requires hands-on hardware development, strong analytical skills, and the ability to mentor junior engineers while collaborating across disciplines to