Hardware Design Engineer

Hallmark Global Technologies - Richardson, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Richardson, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Hardware Design Digital Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing high-reliability electronic systems, including PCBs, embedded systems, and power electronics. This role involves leading the entire circuit card design lifecycle, from requirements capture to testing and troubleshooting, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-reliability electronic systems, including PCBs, embedded systems, and power electronics.
• Lead and perform all aspects of circuit card design lifecycle activities, including requirements capture, schematic capture, component selection, signal integrity analysis, simulations, timing analysis, and thermal analysis.
• Generate PCB layout constraint guidelines, routing instructions, creation of board stackup, and oversee the routing, layout, fabrication, and assembly of complex designs.
• Create test plans, conduct root cause analysis, and test electronic circuits and systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-related issues during development and testing phases.

Requirements

• Design circuit cards using FPGA, processor, and DDR memory components, as well as industry interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, USB, LVDS, and SERDES bus technologies.
• Work collaboratively with team members and independently on assigned tasks.
• Utilize schematic capture tools for the creation of circuit card designs, such as Siemens Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and/or Xpedition, Altium, Cadence Allegro, EAGLE, KiCAD, etc.
• Familiarity with Agile for Hardware Development, including planning, tracking, and managing hardware development projects in JIRA.
• Compliance with industry standards and regulations, including DO-254 and DO-178C is a plus.
• Knowledge of the latest technology trends in high-speed digital design (up to 40GHz), as well as microprocessor, memory, FPGA, and interface protocols.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Work experience of 8+ years is required for this role.