Lead Hardware Design Engineer: Mixed-Signal & FPGA for IoT

Cognizant; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays plus PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Hardware Design Engineer with strong mixed-signal expertise to drive architecture through production. You will collaborate across firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams to deliver robust hardware solutions for safety-critical or high-reliability applications.

The role emphasizes FPGA, MCU/MPU work, analog/digital circuits, SI/PI analysis, and EMI/EMC considerations, within Cognizant's IoT practice. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive hardware design and development experience.
• Strong analog and digital circuit design expertise.
• Experience with FPGA, microprocessors, and microcontrollers.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware development from architecture through production.
• Collaborate with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams.

Skills

Hardware design

Analog design

Digital design

FPGA/Microcontrollers

Mixed-signal systems

Power supplies & filters

PCB design (Altium)

SPI/I2C/CAN/UART/Ethernet

SI/PI analysis

SPICE/PSPICE simulations

Debugging/root-cause analysis

EMI/EMC & reliability

Tools

Altium

SPICE/PSPICE

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Hardware Design Engineer with strong mixed-signal expertise to drive architecture through production. You will collaborate across firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams to deliver robust hardware solutions for safety-critical or high-reliability applications.

The role emphasizes FPGA, MCU/MPU work, analog/digital circuits, SI/PI analysis, and EMI/EMC considerations, within Cognizant's IoT practice. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.