Principal Hardware Digital Engineer (m/f/d)
Location: DRESDEN, SACHSEN, Germany
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary hardware engineering teams to develop SDR products.
- Own all aspects of digital board level design, including schematic entry, PCB stack-up, layout guidelines, signal integrity simulations, and prototype validation.
- Develop and execute plans for prototype hardware bring-up and board level validation.
- Lead digital design by estimating efforts, providing updates on work status, and proactively identifying and addressing technical risks
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline
- Minimum 5 years relevant engineering experience in digital hardware design
- Experience using VHDL and/or SystemVerilog to implement synthesizable logic targeting FPGAs
- Proficiency in using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG programmers, lab power supplies, DMMs, etc.
- Hands-on experience with EDA tools for schematic capture and PCB layout
- Experience in bringing up prototype hardware and in defining and executing test plans to verify board level digital circuits
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex technical challenges
- Experience collaborating with cross-disciplinary engineering teams
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate technical ideas to diverse stakeholders
- Experience with clocking architectures, including clock tree design, PLL configuration, and jitter analysis and mitigation techniques for high-speed digital systems
- Familiarity with static timing analysis and FPGA timing constraints
- Experience with FPGA or ASIC integration into digital design
- Proficiency in high-speed design fundamentals, including signal integrity, crosstalk, impedance control, EMI, and PCB stack-up
- Familiarity with mixed-signal designs and power management for digital systems
- Understanding of PCB thermal and mechanical design considerations
- Familiarity with Xilinx, Intel, or Lattice FPGAs and CPLDs, and associated toolchains
- Experience writing testbenches and simulation models to verify logic designs
- Experience designing and validating high-speed interfaces (i.e., DDR, PCIe, JESD204, Ethernet)
- Familiarity with common clock domain crossing techniques and timing closure
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., LabVIEW, Python) for hardware testing and automation
- Hands-on experience with software defined radios
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