Lead Hardware Design Engineer — Industrial IoT (Hybrid)

Energy Jobline ZR; Frederick (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 3 days/week

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR in Frederick, Maryland seeks a Lead Hardware Design Engineer to oversee full-lifecycle PCB and system architecture for industrial IoT and telecom hardware.

You will guide complex electronics projects from concept to mass production, collaborating with software, mechanical, QA, and operations to deliver durable, cost-efficient product lines. Expect hybrid work and leadership responsibilities.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in board-level electronics design and product development.
• Demonstrated track record of launching commercial embedded hardware products from initial design to volume production.
• Deep knowledge of high-speed digital circuit design and mixed-signal architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing hardware for SoC/microprocessor-based architectures and DDR memory interfaces.
• Experience designing power conversion systems, POL converters, and power management circuits.
• Proficiency in advanced EDA tools for schematic capture and PCB layout oversight.
• Strong diagnostic skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and RF test equipment.
• Excellent technical documentation, verbal communication, and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end hardware architecture for industrial IoT, embedded computing, and telecommunications equipment.
• Translate product specifications into robust circuit topologies, system block diagrams, and hardware functional specs.
• Engineer complex mixed-signal, analog, digital, and power regulation sub-assemblies.
• Evaluate and select primary silicon platforms, including application processors, SoCs, FPGAs, PMICs, memory modules, and high-speed transceivers.
• Execute schematic capture via industry-standard EDA platforms while balancing performance, target unit costs, manufacturability, and thermal constraints.
• Architect system designs supporting RTOS environments and Embedded Linux chipsets.
• Layout high-speed communication networks and memory topologies (DDR, PCIe, USB, SERDES, SPI, I²C, UART).
• Implement physical layer interfaces across wired, fiber, RF, or specialized industrial protocols.
• Design power supply networks, including DC-DC switching regulators, PDN, and energy-efficient power rails.
• Perform thermal modeling, timing budget calculations, SI and PI analysis.
• Lead hardware delivery through prototype bring-up, DVT, pilot runs, and mass production.
• Partner with PCB layout engineers to define stack-ups, controlled impedance traces, placement strategies, and routing guidelines.
• Troubleshoot board-level issues during assembly and resolve field reliability reports via root-cause analysis.
• Identify alternate components, manage BOM risks, and execute cost-reduction redesigns.
• Formulate hardware verification, validation, and automated test plans.
• Direct design execution to ensure compliance with FCC, CE, UL, EMC/EMI, and environmental regs.
• Coordinate with external testing labs to achieve product certifications.
• Function as the primary technical authority for assigned hardware platforms.
• Mentor engineers, providing peer reviews and technical direction.
• Help drive internal engineering standards, tech roadmaps, and lifecycle improvements.

Skills

High-speed digital design

Mixed-signal architectures

SoC / microprocessor architectures

Power conversion systems

DDR memory interfaces

Schematic capture

PCB layout oversight

Diagnostics tools

Technical documentation

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence

Altium

Job description

Energy Jobline ZR in Frederick, Maryland seeks a Lead Hardware Design Engineer to oversee full-lifecycle PCB and system architecture for industrial IoT and telecom hardware.

You will guide complex electronics projects from concept to mass production, collaborating with software, mechanical, QA, and operations to deliver durable, cost-efficient product lines. Expect hybrid work and leadership responsibilities.