Senior Electrical Engineer (Hardware) – Lead Embedded PCBs

Kopin Corporation; Allen (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kopin Corporation in Dallas, TX is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer – Hardware to lead the design, integration, and validation of custom electronics for microdisplay-based solutions and embedded platforms.

Responsibilities include owning PCB-level designs from concept through production, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with firmware, FPGA, optics, and mechanical teams. Strong lab, SI/PI, and DFM/DFT expertise required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8 to 12 years of PCB-level hardware development experience for embedded systems.
• Proficiency with Altium Designer or comparable schematic/layout tools.
• Experience with power supply design, sequencing, protection, power budgeting, grounding, and noise control.
• Experience with high-speed digital interfaces, mixed-signal board design, and embedded interface validation.
• FPGA/MCU/SoC-based board implementation, bring-up, and hardware/software integration.
• Component selection, trade studies, margin analysis, and lifecycle/availability risk management.
• Strong hands-on lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power/protocol analyzers, JTAG/debug tools, soldering/rework equipment.

Responsibilities

• Generate and maintain schematics, BoMs, design reports, ICDs, ECOs, test procedures, verification records, and revision-controlled hardware artifacts.
• Lead design reviews, peer reviews, risk reviews, and trade studies; identify technical risks early and drive closure through analysis, prototyping, simulation, or test.
• Build and characterize prototypes, development boards, evaluation setups, and test fixtures for concept evaluation, verification, and troubleshooting.
• Lead board bring-up, integration, and debug activities, including power-on sequencing, functional validation, and margin evaluation.
• Signal integrity, timing, interface reliability, and noise investigations.
• Integration with firmware, FPGA logic, optics modules, microdisplays, sensors, and host systems.
• Environmental, thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC, and ruggedization testing.
• Define and document electrical interfaces to optics, mechanical, firmware, FPGA, and system teams, including pinouts, timing, power budgets, connector/harness requirements, EMI/ESD concerns, and interface constraints.
• Provide technical direction for PCB layout in Altium, including stack-up definition, controlled-impedance routing, high-speed placement, grounding, shielding, thermal management, manufacturability, testability, and rigid-flex/flex considerations where applicable.
• Mentors junior and mid-level electrical engineers, review designs, and help establish practical design guidelines, reusable circuits, and hardware best practices.
• Support DFM/DFT reviews, NPI, supplier and contract manufacturer interactions, failure analysis, sustaining engineering, and transition from prototype into production.
• Contribute technical inputs to estimates, schedules, proposals, customer discussions, and program planning involving hardware scope, risk, or architecture.

Skills

Power supply design

High-speed digital

FPGA/MCU/SoC integration

Lab instrumentation

Schematics & BoMs

Design reviews

Systems integration

DFM/DFT

Debug & bring-up

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

SI/PI tools

SPICE

Job description

Kopin Corporation in Dallas, TX is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer – Hardware to lead the design, integration, and validation of custom electronics for microdisplay-based solutions and embedded platforms.

Responsibilities include owning PCB-level designs from concept through production, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with firmware, FPGA, optics, and mechanical teams. Strong lab, SI/PI, and DFM/DFT expertise required.