Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer

Silc Technologies - Monrovia, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Monrovia, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

SiLC Technologies, Inc. is seeking a full-time Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to join their dynamic team in Monrovia, California. This role focuses on the testing and development of complex circuits in analog, mixed-signal, and digital domains, contributing to the company's innovative 4D sensing solutions. The engineer will collaborate closely with various design teams and will be responsible for the lifecycle management of circuit boards, ensuring they meet system requirements and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Electrical, Mechanical, and Optics Design Engineers to understand the functionality of a circuit and test it against system requirements.
• Identify key circuit blocks for systematic testing of large circuit boards.
• Own a circuit board throughout its life cycle; help with debugging, revision suggestions, revision tracking, and inventory management.
• Collect lidar data using the complete digital system, analog electronics, integrated photonics, and bulk optics.
• Analyze and post-process the data to extract critical circuit related performance limitations and collaborate with the design team on fixing them.
• Perform hands-on verification and debug of hardware/firmware.
• Document the results and communicate it to technical staff.

Requirements

• B.Sc./M.Sc. with 4+ years of industry experience.
• Familiarity with Altium Designer.
• Experience with testing complex analog, RF, mixed-signal, and digital circuit boards.
• Understanding of basic circuit performance metrics such as noise, linearity, crosstalk, power supply rejection ratio, and more.
• Experienced with circuit testing using a range of lab instruments such as signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, etc.
• Inventory and BoM management experience.
• Good technical writing skills for documenting design specifications.

Nice-to-haves

• PCB design background.
• Experience with building and maintaining Altium libraries.
• Familiarity with electronics for optical interfaces.
• Background in lidar or FMCW radar.
• Expertise in Automotive Electronics and high-quantity production testing.
• Familiar with programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, C, Verilog/System Verilog.
• Experience with Xilinx FPGAs, Vivado, and SDK.
• Experience with signal processing for communication, radar, or lidar systems.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance