Hardware Design Engineer

Analog Photonics; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

On-site in Boston

Stock options

Job summary

Analog Photonics, a Boston-based technology company, is seeking a self-starting Hardware Design Engineer for its automotive LiDAR business area. You will capture electrical requirements and design/test complex mixed-signal PCBs, mentor junior engineers, and interface across disciplines to develop robust systems.

The ideal candidate has hands-on prototyping skills, FPGA and FPGA-related digital design experience, and knowledge of electro-optics.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on engineering and prototyping skills.
• Schematic capture and layout of analog, mixed signal and high-speed designs (Altium preferred).
• Knowledge of IC selection and architecture guidance.
• Familiarity with SPICE, Matlab or similar simulation tools.
• BS/MS with 5+ years or 2+ years respective experience minimum.

Responsibilities

• Capture electrical requirements and design/test complex mixed-signal PCBs.
• Mentor junior engineers and interface with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Lead manufacturing and production activities for boards and modules.
• Design for reliability in automotive LiDAR applications.

Skills

Mixed-signal PCB

Low-noise design

High-speed ADC/DAC

FPGA design

Control systems basics

Manufacturing & production

System-level design

Education

BS Electrical Engineering 5+ years

MS Electrical Engineering 2+ years

Tools

Altium

SPICE

MATLAB

Job description

Analog Photonics is a Boston based technology company with expertise in advanced, large-scale and high-performance photonic and electronic application-specific integrated circuits. We use our proprietary silicon photonic platform to serve the automotive lidar and data communications markets with innovative, chip-scale solutions. Analog Photonics has developed a portfolio of state-of-the-art silicon photonics-based designs including the world's best optical phased arrays. Our designs are fabricated in a 300mm CMOS foundry using a proprietary photonics platform that is optimized for low cost, high reliability, and high yield.

We’re seeking a self-starting hardware design engineer for our automotive LiDAR business area. As a Hardware Design Engineer, you will be responsible for capturing electrical requirements, designing/testing complex mixed-signal PCBs, mentoring junior engineers, and interfacing with engineers in other disciplines to develop the system.

The candidate brings technical experience in digital design, analog design, low-noise design, experience with FPGAs, experience in controls, and some knowledge of electro-optics. This person is also an effective communicator, keeps an open mind, and is interested in both learning from and teaching colleagues who are experts in their field.

Join our team if you are:

• interested in working in a fast-growing early-stage startup
• enthusiastic about working on disruptive silicon photonics to shape the automotive LiDAR space
• a team player who thrives working in a dynamic environment

Skills

• Mixed signal PCB board design
• Design and test of low-noise circuits
• Experience with high-speed ADCs and DACs
• Experience with FPGAs
• Basic knowledge of control systems
• Managing manufacturing and production of boards and modules
• Experience designing complex systems despite risk and uncertainty

Required Qualifications:

1. Strong hands-on engineering and prototyping skills
2. Schematic capture and layout of analog, mixed signal and high-speed designs (Altium preferred)
3. Comfortable identifying and choosing ICs as well as guiding architecture decisions
4. Knowledge of SPICE, Matlab or other simulation programs
5. BS Electrical Engineering 5+ years / MS Electrical Engineering 2+ years’ experience minimum

The ideal candidate will have experiences in several of these areas:

• Mixed signal PCB design
• Electro-optic systems, especially LiDAR
• Digital communication protocols, such as USB, Ethernet, RGMII/SGMII, I2C, SPI, UART, etc.
• Designing for and debugging FPGAs, especially Xilinx devices
• Digital signal processing
• The position is full-time, on-site, and available to be filled immediately. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.