Lead Hardware Engineer — High-Speed FPGA & SI/PI

A2e Technologies; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A2e Technologies is seeking a Lead Hardware Engineer to design and bring up high-speed digital boards, including DDR, FPGAs, and networking subsystems. This role requires hands-on lab work, test planning, and collaboration with engineering teams.

The candidate will work on verification methodologies, SI/PI analyses, and use tools such as Altium, Vivado, and HyperLynx to ensure robust hardware solutions for space-grade applications.

Qualifications

• Experience designing high-speed digital boards (>1GHz) with DDR, FPGAs, Networking.
• Proficient in Altium schematic capture.
• Experience with EMC mitigation techniques and testing.
• Signal integrity and power integrity analysis experience.
• Board bring-up in a professional lab environment.
• Knowledge of verification methodologies and space industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and bring up high-speed digital boards and systems.
• Perform signal integrity and power integrity simulations and verifications.
• Lead test planning, execution, and reporting of results.
• Work in a professional laboratory with test equipment and probes.
• Debug and identify root causes with detailed analysis and documentation.

Skills

High-speed design

DDR & FPGAs

Networking

Signal Integrity

EMC mitigation

Debugging & root-cause

Verilog/VHDL/SystemVerilog

Space-grade verification

Tools

Altium

OrCAD

DxDesigner

Vivado

Quartus

HyperLynx

Job description

A2e Technologies is seeking a Lead Hardware Engineer to design and bring up high-speed digital boards, including DDR, FPGAs, and networking subsystems. This role requires hands-on lab work, test planning, and collaboration with engineering teams.

The candidate will work on verification methodologies, SI/PI analyses, and use tools such as Altium, Vivado, and HyperLynx to ensure robust hardware solutions for space-grade applications.