Microelectronics R&D Engineer

Radiance Technologies, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Radiance Technologies, Inc. is seeking a talented engineer to join the Electronic Systems and Cyber Technologies Group. You will design and test PCBs, simulate analog circuits, and prototype on FPGA while exploring hardware security topics like side‑channel attacks and anti‑tamper techniques.

Strong teamwork and quick learning are essential in this mission‑driven environment. Required MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering (or related field) with TS clearance eligibility; C/C++, Verilog/VHDL, and

Qualifications

• MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field; experience may substitute for MS.
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain/maintain TS clearance.
• Detail oriented with strong documentation and testing discipline.
• Proven problem solving and teamwork in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide hardware research and microelectronics design with focus on security.
• Design and test PCBs, simulate analog circuits, prototype on FPGA.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams researching microelectronic trends and vulnerabilities.
• Develop verification and test environments, document results.

Skills

Hardware design

Verilog/VHDL

C/C++

Embedded Linux

Python

Signal processing

Hardware security

JTAG debugging

Education

MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering (desired)

Tools

Quartus/Vivado

LTSpice

Spectre

Altium/Allegro

Job description

Radiance Technologies, a rapidly growing employee-owned company, is searching for a talented candidate to join our Electronic Systems and Cyber Technologies Group. This person will provide technical research and microelectronics design with an emphasis on hardware security and testing. This person will work with a multi-disciplined team involving research into microelectronic trends and hardware vulnerabilities including hardware exploitation, side-channel attacks, and anti-tamper techniques. This person will be required to design and test printed circuit boards (PCBs), design and simulate analog circuits, and prototype designs on a field programmable gate array (FPGA). This person needs to have innovation, quick learning, excellent communication skills, and adaptive thinking. They will need to have strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills. They must work well in a fast-paced mission-driven environment.

Required Qualifications

• MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or relevant technical field (Two years of hardware engineering experience can substitute for the Master’s degree)
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS security clearance
• Must be detail oriented with respect to work organization and documentation
• Ability to efficiently evaluate and solve problems
• Must be self-motivated and work well on a team both local and distributed

Desired Qualifications/Skills

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Hardware design languages - Verilog/VHDL/System Verilog
• Digital/analog circuit design and testing
• SPICE simulation
• PCB design
• C/C++
• Embedded Programming using Linux OS with drivers or bare metal and debugging via JTAG
• Signal Processing / Data Analysis
• Hardware Security experience
• Cryptographic algorithms and applications
• Python
• Test environment creation/maintenance in simulation and development board

Desired Tool Experience

• FPGA tools - Quartus/Vivado
• Circuit Simulation – LTSpice, Spectre
• PC board design - Altium, Allegro
• MS Office (Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint)

Radiance Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Our growth is creating great opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it!

Employee-Ownership

Radiance is a proud employee-owned company! Employee-ownership benefits both our customers and workforce, and ensures that Radiance doesn’t have to answer to stockholders or be driven by quarterly earnings reports. Thus, Radiance will always prioritize enhancing our customer’s mission over expanding our bottom line. We are singularly focused on providing our customers with game-changing solutions to their most challenging requirements. This is only possible because employee-ownership attracts the highest quality employees, empowers them to identify capability enhancements, and provides them with the freedom to take risks to deliver high-quality solutions. Employee-ownership also provides tangible and long-term financial security for our people and their families. Therefore, employee-ownership embodies participation, empowerment, freedom, teaming, excellence, accountability, mission focus, and security.

Our Culture

Radiance’s culture is driven by our commitment to our customers and our employee-owners. Our employee-owners thrive on entrepreneurship, empowerment, and mutual responsibility for growth and sustainability. Our culture consists of individuals who embody technical and leadership skills to deliver superior solutions to the nation’s toughest technical challenges. We believe building trust and credibility with our customers leads to long-term results. We invest in a superior technical workforce where leaders are developed, innovation is encouraged, and achievements are recognized. We seek innovative ways to improve, experiment, take risks, foster collaboration, and empower our employee-owners.

Our Values

Our values drive our culture, business model, and daily interactions. These values constantly remind us of who we are and what we do. Our employee-owners influence how we operate our business. We relentlessly pursue operating excellence by innovating, improving our processes, and reducing waste. We believe in being wise and ethical stewards of capital and resources. Our values dictate how we interact with each other and our customers, partners, and suppliers. Honesty, trust, humanity, alignment, and value creation require that we treat our employees with dignity and respect and provide them with fair compensation and equal employment opportunity. We believe in connecting with our communities and have a responsibility to be good corporate citizens, and we believe in sustainable business practices, which include supporting the environment and the communities in which we work.