Hardware Systems Architect: RF/FPGA & GNSS

The University of Texas at Austin; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 104,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical coverage

Retirement contributions

Paid vacation and sick time

Paid holidays

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineering Scientist on the Pickle Research Campus to join the Space and Geophysics Laboratory. You will lead design work integrating COTS and custom hardware, including GNSS receivers, FPGAs, and RF systems, for government sponsors.

You will elicit requirements, translate them into architecture, decompose work, and guide the team through lifecycle stages while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, applied science, or engineering.
• Three years of relevant professional work experience developing systems requirements and designs.
• Experience integrating hardware systems into racks, RF distribution, or FPGA-based data acquisition.
• Ability to design, develop, evaluate, and support large, complex systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication with stakeholders of varied backgrounds.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Elicit systems scope and requirements from stakeholders for designs.
• Develop hardware systems design: scope, requirements, components, interfaces.
• Communicate work products and results to stakeholders with documentation and briefs.
• Participate in project planning and decomposition into components.
• Coordinate lifecycle activities from definition to deployment with stakeholders.
• Produce engineering estimates, guide schedules, identify dependencies.
• Conduct evaluations such as trade studies and risk analyses.
• Mentor junior engineering staff, technicians and students.
• Perform other related functions as assigned.

Skills

Communication skills

Systems engineering

Requirements elicitation

Hardware integration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Postgraduate degree in systems engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

The University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Hardware Systems Engineering Scientist on the Pickle Research Campus to join the Space and Geophysics Laboratory. You will lead design work integrating COTS and custom hardware, including GNSS receivers, FPGAs, and RF systems, for government sponsors.

You will elicit requirements, translate them into architecture, decompose work, and guide the team through lifecycle stages while mentoring junior staff.