Lead Hardware Design Engineer: Mixed-Signal & FPGA
Cognizant
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Cognizant is seeking a Lead Hardware Design Engineer with strong experience in mixed-signal hardware design, FPGA/microcontrollers, analog & digital electronics, PCB design, and safety-critical systems. The candidate will lead hardware development from architecture through production, working closely with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams.
The role requires expertise in power supplies, ADC/DAC, SPI/I2C/CAN/UART/USB/Ethernet, and SI/PI analysis, with hands-on DFMEA and EMI/EMC
Qualifications
- 10+ years of hardware design experience
- Strong expertise in analog and digital circuit design
- Experience with FPGA, microprocessors, and microcontrollers
- Hands-on experience with mixed-signal systems and sensor interfaces
- Strong knowledge of power supplies, signal conditioning, ADC/DAC, and filters
- Experience with PCB design/review using Altium
- Knowledge of communication protocols: SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, USB, Ethernet
- Experience with signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) analysis
- Familiarity with SPICE/PSPICE simulations and hardware verification
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills
- Experience with EMI/EMC, environmental testing, DFMEA, and reliability analysis
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Cognizant is seeking a Lead Hardware Design Engineer with strong experience in mixed-signal hardware design, FPGA/microcontrollers, analog & digital electronics, PCB design, and safety-critical systems. The candidate will lead hardware development from architecture through production, working closely with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams.
The role requires expertise in power supplies, ADC/DAC, SPI/I2C/CAN/UART/USB/Ethernet, and SI/PI analysis, with hands-on DFMEA and EMI/EMC
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