Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) is seeking a highly motivated individual to join one of our skilled and tight-knit design teams in creating rugged, high-performance embedded computing solutions. This person will be involved in all aspects of board-level product design through the formal transfer to production. This key position has broad exposure to and close interaction with electrical and mechanical design, software integration and debug, qualification testing, and production planning.
Duties and Responsibilities
Perform engineering work related to hardware design, debugging, and electronic system testing. Specific responsibilities may include the following:
- Participate in product development, integration, debug, product testing, and customer support
- Perform digital circuit design, through component selection, simulation, and schematic entry
- Create and review product technical documentation
- Collaborate cross-functionally to identify best fit solutions and to quickly resolve technical issues and ensure a high level of product quality
- Provide guidance in the creation and execution of design verification, qualification, and production test plans
- Debug hardware problems down to the component level
- Manage customer and internal requirements throughout the design process
- Work with project managers, technical leads and team members to ensure that design checks are performed in a timely fashion
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering field
- Minimum of five (5+) years of related engineering experience. Consideration for senior level placement based on the candidate’s qualifications and related experience
- Highly organized with a strong attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including mechanical, signal integrity, PCB, power, programmable logic, project management, and software
- Experience solving complex problems and making informed technical decisions with a demonstrated ability to consider all relevant factors when proposing technical solutions
- Experience reviewing others’ work and providing constructive feedback
- Demonstrated ability to present technical data in a manner that facilitates quick decisions
- Track record of guiding PCB layout engineers
- Ability to work efficiently and independently with a strong sense of urgency and ownership
- Ability to work onsite from our facility located at 9901 Silicon Prairie Parkway in Verona, WI
Desired Qualifications
- Prefer seven (7+) years of related engineering experience
- Experience delivering project goals across one or more concurrent projects
- Experience in all areas of the engineering development life cycle: requirement gathering, design, development, testing, debug, deployment, and sustaining maintenance
- Ability to translate product specifications into requirements
- Experience with complex eCAD software such as Siemens Xpedition, Altium or Cadence Allegro
- Familiarity with any of the following: Intel x86 architecture or ARM architecture, Xilinx FPGA or SoCs, Linux or VxWorks operating systems, SPICE simulation, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR4, MIL-STD 1553, C or C++ programming, Python, HDL
- Experience with embedded products form factors (VPX, COM Express, XMC, VME, cPCI, ATCA)
- Familiarity with military requirements (MIL-STD 810, 461, 464, 704, 1275, DO-160, 178)
