Sr. Electronic Digital Design Engineer

Checkpoint Systems

West Deptford Township (NJ)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 130,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Medical Insurance

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Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Discount

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Job summary

Checkpoint Systems in Thorofare, NJ is seeking a Senior Electronic Digital Design Engineer to design RFID hardware for retail applications. You will work with a hardware team to design solutions, meet deadlines, and contribute to the product portfolio with RFID technology expertise.

The role requires a Master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent experience, 5–10+ years of digital board design, and a strong background in DSP, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and PCB layout.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred or equivalent work experience.
Experience in digital board design, simulation, layout and debugging.
Familiarity with DSP, microcontrollers and ARM-based reference designs.
Knowledge of memory devices (SRAM, SDRAM, DDR, Flash, EEPROM).
Experience with RF circuitry and PCB implementations is a plus.

Responsibilities

Specify, design, and develop MCU-based digital hardware systems.
Research solutions under constraints for performance, size, power, and cost.
Review digital hardware designs including part selection and timing.
Collaborate with CAD and contract manufacturers to produce prototypes.
Validate prototypes and production builds and generate reports.
Develop hardware test procedures for manufacture of new hardware.
Co-develop hardware with firmware and FPGA teams; assist board bring up.

Skills

Digital circuitry design

Power & analog design

EMI/EMC knowledge

RFID understanding

Test equipment (scope, DMM, logic)

Written & verbal communication

Team collaboration

Microsoft Office

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Xilinx ISE/Vivado

ModelSim

Siemens PADS

PCB layout

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Electronic Digital Design Engineer, as a member of our hardware team of experts, contributes to the design and development of RFID Applications for our retail customers.

Job Description

The Senior Electronic Digital Design Engineer, as a member of our hardware team of experts, contributes to the design and development of RFID Applications for our retail customers. With little supervision, works creatively in a team-oriented environment to design solutions, meet deadlines, and complete difficult engineering assignments by demonstrating full competency in RFID technology and applying these skills to our product portfolio. The successful candidate will contribute to our innovation team, assist substantively in planning technical aspects of the development projects, and then executing to it. They are responsible for their deliverables and, together with the team, for the entire application

Qualifications

Job Duties

Specify, design, and develop MCU based Digital Hardware systems and interfaces for new and existing products.
Research solutions to complex technical problems under specific performance, size, power and cost constraints, recommend viable and cost-effective approaches, select key components.
Review and analyze digital hardware designs: part selection, schematic entry, layout, timing, signal integrity, derating, power consumption, test.
Work with CAD and Contract Manufacturer to produce prototypes and production grade boards.
Validate and troubleshoot prototypes and production builds. Generate related reports.
Guide development of hardware test procedures for the manufacturing of new and existing hardware.
Co-develop hardware with Firmware Engineers and FPGA Design Engineers; assist in board bring up

Education

Master’s degree in electrical engineering preferred, or equivalent work experience.

Experience

Minimum 5-10 years of experience with designing digital board level circuit design, simulation, layout and debug.
Working experience with DSP, microcontrollers (Microchip, Atmel, ARM Cortex M) and microprocessors (ADI Blackfin, ARM Cortex A) reference designs and development kits.
Working experience with memory devices and technologies – SRAM, SDRAM, DDR, Flash, EEPROM.
Working experience with peripheral interfaces, such as RS232, RS485, Ethernet, USB, I2C, SPI, LVDS.
Experience working with FPGAs (Xilinx Artix, Spartan, Zynq) and FPGA Design using Xilinx ISE/Vivado Design suites, Modelsim.
Experience using Siemens PADS or equivalent to produce mixed-signal schematics and PCB layout.
Experience developing low-power electronics is preferred.
Experience building and bringing up hardware Experience validating designs and entire applications to prove requirements are achieved.
Preferred: Experience with RF circuitry and PCB implementations

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Working knowledge of digital circuitry design principles, attributes, issues, component selection, and optimization strategies.
Working knowledge of power and analog circuit design principles and tradeoffs for PCB power, use of PMICs, A/D & D/A conversion.
Working knowledge of hardware design for EMI/EMC Global compliance.
Ability to use Test equipment: oscilloscope, digital multi-meter and logic analyzer for design and troubleshooting; spectrum and network analyzers.
Ability to express ideas clearly in both written and oral communications.
Driven to work towards meeting project goals and deadlines.
Driven to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors and co-workers.
RFID understanding desired.
Working knowledge using Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio.

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Pay: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00

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