Lead Embedded Hardware Engineer

Ascendo Resources; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Ascendo Resources in Jacksonville, FL is partnering with an established industrial technology company to hire a hands-on Lead Embedded Hardware Engineer. You will provide technical leadership for a small hardware team and stay deeply involved in circuit design, schematic development, PCB reviews, board bring-up, testing, debugging, and production support.

This role focuses on advancing wireless embedded products through enhancements, reliability improvements, and complex problem-solving, with a

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting embedded electronic products.
• Ownership of circuit design, schematic development, PCB revisions or reviews, and board bring-up.
• Experience with analog, digital, or mixed-signal circuitry using MCUs, sensors, power supplies, or wireless interfaces.
• Experience improving or sustaining released products via engineering changes and field support.
• Strong lab troubleshooting and root-cause analysis with oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, DMM, and power supplies.
• Experience with manufacturing support, cross-functional teams, and supplier coordination.
• Ability to mentor others while remaining hands-on; proficiency with a professional schematic/PCB toolset.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware enhancements, revisions, and upgrades for existing embedded products.
• Design and modify analog, digital, mixed-signal, sensor-interface, wireless, and power circuitry.
• Develop schematics and review PCB layouts for performance and manufacturability.
• Board bring-up, functional verification, environmental and reliability testing, and debugging.
• Investigate field failures and hardware-vs-firmware issues; support manufacturing changes.
• Collaborate with procurement on component availability and second sourcing.
• Provide technical direction, design reviews, and mentoring for a small team.

Skills

Embedded hardware

Circuit design

PCB bring-up

Schematic development

Power electronics

Root cause analysis

Lab testing

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Equivalent embedded-hardware experience

Tools

Altium Designer

PADS

OrCAD

Cadence

KiCad

Job description

Location: Jacksonville, FL | Fully On-Site

The Opportunity:

We are partnering with an established Jacksonville-based industrial technology company to hire a hands-on Lead Embedded Hardware Engineer.

This individual will provide technical leadership for a small hardware team while remaining deeply involved in circuit design, schematic development, PCB reviews, board bring-up, testing, debugging, and production support. The immediate focus is advancing and sustaining an established portfolio of wireless embedded products through enhancements, upgrades, reliability improvements, and complex problem-solving.

This is a player-coach opportunity for an engineer who enjoys broad technical ownership and wants to influence product performance from the lab through manufacturing and field use.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead hands-on hardware enhancements, revisions, and upgrades for existing embedded electronic products.
• Design and modify analog, digital, mixed-signal, microcontroller-based, sensor-interface, wireless, and power circuitry.
• Develop schematics and review PCB layouts for performance, signal integrity, EMC, manufacturability, and testability.
• Perform board bring-up, functional verification, environmental and reliability testing, and complex hardware debugging.
• Investigate field failures, returned products, intermittent defects, and hardware-versus-firmware issues.
• Support manufacturing through engineering changes, yield improvement, defect reduction, pilot builds, and production troubleshooting.
• Partner with procurement and supply chain on component availability, alternate qualification, obsolescence, supplier issues, and second sourcing.
• Support engineering documentation, configuration management, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and product compliance activities.
• Provide technical direction, mentoring, design reviews, prioritization, and knowledge-sharing for a small engineering team.
• Collaborate closely with firmware, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technical support, and operations.

Required Experience:

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting embedded electronic products.
• Demonstrated ownership of circuit design, schematic development, PCB revisions or reviews, and board bring-up.
• Experience with analog, digital, or mixed-signal circuitry involving microcontrollers, sensors, power supplies, battery-powered devices, or embedded communication interfaces.
• Experience improving or sustaining released products through engineering changes, production support, component changes, field issues, or reliability improvements.
• Strong laboratory troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills using equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, suppliers, quality, and cross-functional product teams.
• Ability to lead technical work and mentor others while remaining personally hands-on.
• Experience with a professional schematic and PCB design platform such as Altium Designer, PADS, OrCAD, Cadence, KiCad, or a comparable tool.

A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related discipline is preferred. Candidates with substantial equivalent embedded-hardware experience will also be considered.

Preferred Experience:

• Wireless sensors, industrial IoT, instrumentation, telemetry, data acquisition, medical devices, avionics, or other rugged connected products.
• Low-power or battery-operated hardware using Bluetooth, BLE, sub-GHz, 900 MHz, Wi-Fi, cellular, or comparable wireless technology.
• Accelerometers, vibration sensing, ultrasound, temperature sensing, signal conditioning, analog front ends, ADCs, or DSP-based systems.
• DFM, DFT, EMC/EMI mitigation, environmental testing, and product certification.
• FCC, CE, UL, HazLoc, ATEX, IECEx, ISO 9001, or another structured product-compliance environment.
• Working knowledge of embedded firmware, C, C++, Python, or Linux.
• Experience working in a small or mid-sized product company where engineers carry broad ownership.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Bonus opportunity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Less than 5% travel

This position is fully on-site in Jacksonville. Candidates must currently reside within a workable commuting distance. Relocation is not available.