Electrical Engineering - Contractor - L3

Belcan Corporation; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 39,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Belcan Corporation is seeking a Sr Specialist, Hardware Design Engineer in Salt Lake City, UT. Immediate start for a 12‑month contract (to hire) focusing on high‑speed digital and RF circuit design for defense and national security applications.

You will develop board‑level integration, utilize FPGAs and embedded processors, and document requirements, tests, and BOMs while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Responsibilities

• Document your designs from requirements, testing procedures and bill of material.
• Perform detailed performance and functional measurements and debug at a hardware level.
• Create custom Circuit Cards, utilizing FPGAs, Embedded Processors, networking components, and other electronic components.
• Performance characterization of hardware over a wide variety environment condition.
• Use Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4 JESD, PCIe, 1000BASE-T).
• Support test engineering with transition of hardware to manufacturing testing.
• Contribute to design review, system integration.

Skills

Hardware Design

RF Design

Schematic Capture

PCB Layout

FPGA

Embedded Processors

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Graduate Degree

8 years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Mentor Graphics

Git/ClearCase

Confluence

Lab Equipment

Job description

Job Title: Sr Specialist, Hardware Design Engineer

Pay rate: up to $46.62/hr.

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Zip Code: 84116

Start Date: Immediate

Contract: 12 Months (Contract to Hire)

Tags: #SrSpecialistHardwareDesignEngineerjobs; #SaltLakeCityjobs;

Our client is looking for an ambitious hardware engineer to help them design custom circuit technology for software-defined radio applications. As a member of their team, you’ll help us build groundbreaking digital and RF circuits for the special operations and intelligence communities to address challenging national security problems and enable planning and decision making in domains as diverse as active threat deterrence, signal intelligence, cyber operations, machine learning, image processing, and applied data analytics. You’ll join a multidisciplinary team of engineers who believe in fostering an open, collaborative work environment to solve complex problems.

As a Hardware Design Engineer, you will assist in the development of communications systems through board-level integration of high-speed digital components, commercially available chipsets, and embedded processors. Product Design: Schematic Capture, Simulations, PCB analysis and layout.

Essential Functions:

• Document your designs from requirements, testing procedures and bill of material.


• Perform detailed performance and functional measurements and debug at a hardware level.


• Create custom Circuit Cards, utilizing FPGAs, Embedded Processors, networking components, and other electronic components.


• Performance characterization of hardware over a wide variety environment condition.


• Use Industry standard interfaces (e.g. 1GE, 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, SPI, UART, SDRAM, DDR3, DDR4 JESD, PCIe, 1000BASE-T).


• Support test engineering with transition of hardware to manufacturing testing.


• Contribute to design review, system integration.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor\"s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience.


• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.


• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Master\"s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred.


• Minimum of 2 years of experience with CCA and Hardware Design experience.


• Familiar with lab test equipment.


• Minimum of 2 years\" experience with hardware verification, schematic capture, PCB Layout.


• Experience in laboratory debug techniques using digital scopes, logic analyzers, BERTS, and other complex measurement devices.


• Experience with Mentor Graphics tools is preferred.


• Familiarity with code revision management tools such as Git/ClearCase.


• Familiarity with Confluence or other information sharing tools.

Belcan is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.