Hybrid Senior Embedded Hardware Engineer, Wireless & IoT

Accelerated Concepts, Inc.; Hopkins (MN); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-term incentive

Stock grant

Parental leave

Open PTO

Hybrid work environment

Medical benefits

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Digi International in Hopkins, MN, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Wireless Design Services team as a hands-on hardware designer. You will own the electrical design of customer products, from concept through verification, certification, and production release, with emphasis on embedded hardware and wireless technologies.

This individual contributor role requires strong ownership, collaboration with firmware/RF/software/mechanical/manufacturing teams, and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of progressive experience designing commercial electronic products (or MS with 3+ years).
• Experience taking hardware from concept through manufacturing and production release.
• Hands-on experience with full hardware design cycle: circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, testing.
• Experience designing embedded hardware using MCUs, processors, sensors, and power supplies.
• Working understanding of signal integrity, thermal mitigation, power analysis, and impedance matching.
• Ability to articulate circuit and architecture tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, and the ability to deliver technical work independently while managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own electrical design of embedded and wireless products from concept through production.
• Design circuits, select components, create and review schematics, and direct PCB layout.
• Build, bring up, test, troubleshoot, and improve electronic circuits and embedded hardware platforms with minimal oversight.
• Evaluate design tradeoffs related to performance, reliability, power, cost, manufacturability, component availability, and product lifecycle, and explain the rationale to peers and stakeholders.
• Participate in customer discussions to understand requirements, clarify technical challenges, and present practical design recommendations.
• Translate customer and system needs into electrical requirements, interfaces, design specifications, and verification plans.
• Partner with firmware, RF, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and project management teams throughout product development.
• Lead hardware integration, verification, validation, and certification activities within the electrical design scope, and support production and sustaining engineering.
• Identify technical risks early, propose mitigation, and communicate clearly with internal stakeholders and customers.
• Mentor entry‑level engineers, contribute to team best practices, and drive continuous improvement in design quality.

Skills

5+ years hardware design

Concept to manufacturing

Embedded hardware design

Signal integrity/thermal mitigation

Communication of tradeoffs

Mentoring/ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

MS (preferred)

Job description

Digi International in Hopkins, MN, is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join the Wireless Design Services team as a hands-on hardware designer. You will own the electrical design of customer products, from concept through verification, certification, and production release, with emphasis on embedded hardware and wireless technologies.

This individual contributor role requires strong ownership, collaboration with firmware/RF/software/mechanical/manufacturing teams, and delivering