Senior Hardware Design Engineer – High-Speed Analog & Power

1st Avenue Power, LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan 401(k)

Job summary

1st Avenue Power, LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a hands-on Hardware Design Engineer to design, build, and validate analog and digital circuits for precision measurement and diagnostic instruments used in solar, wind, and battery energy storage systems. You will work with a senior engineer on the TDR program and contribute across the hardware development lifecycle.

The role targets engineers with a few years of circuit design experience who want to deepen high-speed analog, signal processing,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• 3+ years of hands-on analog/digital circuit design experience.
• Experience with high-speed PCB layout and signal integrity.
• Familiarity with laboratory test equipment and measurement techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design analog and digital circuits including high-speed front ends, pulse generation, sampling, and signal conditioning stages.
• Create schematics and high-speed, low-noise PCB layouts using Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar tools.
• Design and support copper-based communication interfaces and transmission line connections for a range of cable types.
• Select and evaluate components such as ADCs, DACs, op-amps, FPGAs, and microcontrollers.
• Build, bring up, and debug hardware prototypes in the lab using oscilloscopes, VNAs, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators.
• Produce design documentation including schematics, BOMs, design notes, and test reports.
• Collaborate with firmware, software, mechanical, and product teams in an agile environment.

Skills

Analog and digital circuit design

High-speed PCB layout

Signal processing concepts

Schematic capture

Bench testing with test equipment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

Cadence

Oscilloscopes

VNAs

Spectrum analyzers

Job description

1st Avenue Power, LLC in Mountain View, CA seeks a hands-on Hardware Design Engineer to design, build, and validate analog and digital circuits for precision measurement and diagnostic instruments used in solar, wind, and battery energy storage systems. You will work with a senior engineer on the TDR program and contribute across the hardware development lifecycle.

The role targets engineers with a few years of circuit design experience who want to deepen high-speed analog, signal processing,