Sr. Electrical Engineer, Digital Hardware (US Citizenship Required)

Teledyne; Wilsonville (OR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Teledyne FLIR Defense is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer, Digital Hardware to lead hands-on design of advanced digital hardware, PCBs and embedded electronics for imaging, sensing, and surveillance products.

You will collaborate with Product, Software, Mechanical, Systems, Test, FPGA and Manufacturing teams to bring concepts to production while solving complex RF/HDL design challenges and ensuring manufacturability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field strongly preferred.
• 5-10+ years of experience in digital hardware design, embedded electronics, PCB design, or related hardware development.
• Strong experience designing digital circuit boards and complex electronic systems.
• Experience with embedded processors, memory architectures, and high-speed digital interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, SERDES, MIPI, UART, 1553, Aurora, or similar technologies.
• Experience with hardware architecture development, schematic capture, PCB layout review, and full product development lifecycle activities.
• Thorough understanding of digital electronics, high-speed digital design, embedded hardware design principles, and board-level integration.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, and board-level design best practices.
• Experience integrating, debugging, validating, and troubleshooting hardware systems in laboratory environments.
• Ability to write detailed technical specifications and engineering documentation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing FPGA-based or SoC-based hardware platforms.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera, Lattice, Microchip, or similar FPGA technologies.
• Experience with embedded systems, imaging systems, sensor technologies, aerospace, defense, medical, industrial, or other complex electronic products.
• Experience supporting products through manufacturing release and production.

Responsibilities

• Define new products and technology roadmaps with Product Management.
• Translate requirements into hardware architectures and board implementations.
• Design PCB assemblies with embedded processors, FPGA/SoC, memory, high-speed interfaces.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Software, Mechanical, Systems, Test, FPGA, and Manufacturing Engineering.
• Perform schematic capture and PCB layout reviews ensuring performance and cost objectives.
• Hands-on bring-up, integration, debugging, validation, testing of hardware.
• Conduct root cause analysis and troubleshoot hardware in lab environments.
• Support signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, and Design-for-manufacturing activities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and test procedures.
• Support new product introduction and production transition.
• Lead technical tasks with cross-functional stakeholders and communicate status and risks.
• Support continuous improvement in hardware design processes and reliability.

Skills

Digital hardware design

Embedded electronics

PCB design

Schematic capture

Signal integrity

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Altium Designer

FPGA Tools

Job description

US - Orlando, FL

US - Wilsonville, OR

Full time

REQ34629

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

US Citizenship is required for this position. We are unable to hire Green Card Holders, individuals who need a work visa, are currently on a work visa, or individuals who will require work visa sponsorship in the future.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a self-motivated Sr. Electrical Engineer, Digital Hardware who will work as a hands-on individual contributor and is eager to expand their technical knowledge while developing complex electronic systems. In this role, you will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams designing, developing, integrating, and verifying advanced digital hardware, PCB assemblies, and embedded electronics for innovative imaging, sensing, and surveillance products. You will contribute to the development of next-generation electronic systems utilizing embedded processors, FPGA and SoC technologies, high-speed digital interfaces, low-power electronics, and other advanced hardware platforms. This position provides the opportunity to take hardware designs from concept through production while collaborating with Software, Mechanical, Systems, Test, FPGA, and Manufacturing Engineering teams in a highly technical product development environment.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Management and Business Development to help define new products and technology roadmaps.

• Translate project and system requirements into well-defined hardware architectures, digital hardware designs, and board-level implementations.

• Design and develop complex printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies incorporating embedded processors, FPGA or SoC devices, memory architectures, and high-speed digital interfaces.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Software, Mechanical, Systems, Test, FPGA, and Manufacturing Engineering.

• Perform schematic capture, support PCB layout reviews, and ensure designs meet performance, manufacturability, reliability, and cost objectives.

• Perform hands-on bring-up, integration, debug, validation, and testing of prototype and production hardware.

• Conduct root cause analysis and troubleshoot hardware issues in laboratory environments.

• Support signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, and design-for-manufacturing activities throughout product development.

• Create and maintain technical documentation, design specifications, test procedures, and manufacturing release packages.

• Support new product introduction and transition into production.

• Solve complex technical problems with limited direction, contribute to requirements development, evaluate tradeoffs, and propose effective technical solutions.

• Lead technical tasks involving multiple cross-functional stakeholders and effectively communicate status, risks, and recommendations to project leadership and customers.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to hardware design processes, product reliability, and engineering best practices.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field strongly preferred.

• 5-10+ years of experience in digital hardware design, embedded electronics, PCB design, or related hardware development.

• Strong experience designing digital circuit boards and complex electronic systems.

• Experience with embedded processors, memory architectures, and high-speed digital interfaces such as PCIe, DDR, Ethernet, SERDES, MIPI, UART, 1553, Aurora, or similar technologies.

• Experience with hardware architecture development, schematic capture, PCB layout review, and full product development lifecycle activities.

• Thorough understanding of digital electronics, high-speed digital design, embedded hardware design principles, and board-level integration.

• Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, EMI/EMC, and board-level design best practices.

• Experience integrating, debugging, validating, and troubleshooting hardware systems in laboratory environments.

• Ability to write detailed technical specifications and engineering documentation.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing FPGA-based or SoC-based hardware platforms.

• Experience with AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera, Lattice, Microchip, or similar FPGA technologies.

• Experience with Altium Designer or similar schematic capture and PCB design tools.

• Experience with embedded systems, imaging systems, sensor technologies, aerospace, defense, medical, industrial, or other complex electronic products.

• Experience supporting products through manufacturing release and production.

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

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Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .

Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.