Senior Hardware Design Engineer – Rugged Embedded (Huntsville)

H.T. Prof Executive Search; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown Huntsville-based organization seeks a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design, bring-up, testing, and production release of advanced embedded hardware systems. You will work with Intel/ARM processors, FPGAs, and high-speed interfaces in a highly independent role.

The role emphasizes technical ownership, collaboration with multiple engineering teams, and influence over architecture and development processes within mission-critical applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in electrical engineering or embedded hardware design.
• Strong understanding of PC architecture and hardware interconnects.
• PCB design experience including schematic capture, layout, and routing.
• Expertise in high-speed PCB design with differential signaling.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, debugging, and verification.
• Ability to develop test and verification plans meeting product requirements.
• Self-starting, independent problem solver across the full lifecycle.
• Willingness to contribute across requirements through sustainment and changes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and support advanced embedded hardware systems.
• Design digital hardware with Intel/ARM processors, DDR, FPGAs, MPSoCs, RFSoCs.
• Implement high-speed interfaces such as DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, and multi-Gigabit Ethernet.
• Provide technical ownership and act as design authority for complex hardware programs.
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, software, systems, and manufacturing teams.

Skills

PC architecture expertise

Embedded hardware design

Hardware bring-up & debugging

Test & verification planning

Independent problem solving

C/C++ low-level software

Linux/Windows familiarity

System integration & lifecycle support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Mentor Expedition Dx

Cadence

Altium

Job description

Unknown Huntsville-based organization seeks a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to lead the design, bring-up, testing, and production release of advanced embedded hardware systems. You will work with Intel/ARM processors, FPGAs, and high-speed interfaces in a highly independent role.

The role emphasizes technical ownership, collaboration with multiple engineering teams, and influence over architecture and development processes within mission-critical applications.