Senior Hardware Design Engineer - Safety-Critical Systems

Cognizant; North Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 104,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer in Florida (Melbourne) with 10+ years of experience to design and deliver industrial electronic hardware. You will work across architecture, schematics, layout, and testing, collaborating with firmware, mechanical engineering, and bring-up teams to meet stringent requirements.

The role emphasizes FPGA, mixed-signal design, power, signal integrity, and robust verification in harsh environments, with onsite responsibilities and a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Designs for safety-critical devices operating in harsh environments.
• Knowledge of mixed analog/digital embedded systems with various sensor types.

Responsibilities

• Involves architecture, schematics, layout reviews and cross-functional collaboration with firmware, mechanical, and bring-up testing.
• Define requirements with stakeholders and support full hardware product development lifecycle.
• Lead reviews of schematics, PCBs, and BOMs to ensure technical integrity.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues during development and testing phases.
• Maintain documentation of hardware designs and modifications.

Skills

Safety-critical design

Mixed embedded systems

FPGA design

Microprocessors

Microcontroller design

Analog design

Op-amps and signal conditioning

Power supply design

Signal integrity

Serial interfaces (UART, RS422/RS485,I

I2C

SPI

CAN

USB

Ethernet TCP/IP

PCB design tools (Altium)

SPICE/PSPICE/HSPICE

PCIe / DDRx / LPDDRx / NAND / NOR

DFMEA / MTBF / worst-case analysis

Root-cause debugging

Tools

Altium

SPICE

PSPICE

HSPICE

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer in Florida (Melbourne) with 10+ years of experience to design and deliver industrial electronic hardware. You will work across architecture, schematics, layout, and testing, collaborating with firmware, mechanical engineering, and bring-up teams to meet stringent requirements.

The role emphasizes FPGA, mixed-signal design, power, signal integrity, and robust verification in harsh environments, with onsite responsibilities and a strong emphasis on