Senior Hardware Architect: High-Speed Embedded & FPGA

Mercury Systems; Andover (MA); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Health, life and disability insurance

Company-paid holidays and time off

Discounted employee stock purchase计划

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development and wellness

Job summary

Mercury Systems invites applications for a Principal Electrical Engineer – Hardware Design/Board Designer in Andover, MA. You will architect ruggedized circuit boards and lead end-to-end development of embedded computing, high-speed digital systems, secure processing, and FPGA-based hardware.

You will set engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating across sites to deliver robust hardware for extreme environments in aerospace and defense

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering; Master’s degree preferred.
• Typically requires a minimum of 6+ years of electrical engineering experience in board-level hardware design.
• Experience with 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, and DDR5+ high-speed interfaces.
• Strong understanding of signal integrity principles.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead board-level design and development of complex digital circuits, modules, and embedded systems from concept through production.
• Architect advanced electrical circuit board solutions involving secure processing, storage, networking, FPGA technologies, high-speed interfaces, and extreme environments.
• Develop and analyze high-speed digital board designs including 400G+ Ethernet, PCIe Gen5+, DDR5+, and next-gen interconnects.
• Establish engineering best practices, design guidelines, and quality-focused processes for verification and reliable hardware development.
• Support proposals by contributing architectures, cost and schedule estimates, and Basis of Estimate (BOE) input.
• Drive design-for-manufacturability (DFM), design-for-assembly (DFA), and design-for-test (DFT) efforts with manufacturing teams.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver integrated hardware solutions across product lifecycles.

Skills

Board-level design

High-speed interfaces

FPGA technologies

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence DEHDL/Concept

Cadence Allegro

Job description

Mercury Systems invites applications for a Principal Electrical Engineer – Hardware Design/Board Designer in Andover, MA. You will architect ruggedized circuit boards and lead end-to-end development of embedded computing, high-speed digital systems, secure processing, and FPGA-based hardware.

You will set engineering standards, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating across sites to deliver robust hardware for extreme environments in aerospace and defense