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Job Summary

The Hardware Design Engineer will be a member of a team responsible for the development and maintenance of ADTRAN’s product family.

This Hardware Design Engineer is a Senior Level professional Engineer. This position has full technical leadership of all aspects of a project in the full product development cycle: conceptualizing, developing prototypes, testing, perfecting designs, and introduction into manufacturing.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design or assist in the design, development, debugging, and integration of hardware for ADTRAN’s product family.
• Design or assist in the design of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) for advanced, very high-speed communications products.
• Design or assist in the design of hardware architecture, schematic capture, prototype testing, and PCB layout review.
• Troubleshoot regulatory compliance failures.
• Lead hardware architecture development efforts.
• Lead projects and oversee other engineer’s design and architecture decisions.
• Assist others within engineering and tech support in debugging issues.
• Provide input in determining the level of effort required for hardware and product features requested from product management.
• Other projects and assignments may result and be assigned to accommodate the changing needs of the department and the Company.
• Work with software, mechanical and power supply teams to optimize design and architecture decisions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or Computer Engineering) required.
• 12-15 years of prior experience demonstrating specialized knowledge within the Engineering field, experience in leadership, and project management.
• Strong communication skills needed to interface with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, technicians, technical writers, and others.
• Experience with high-speed data buses, serializers, deserializers, signal integrity issues required.
• Experience with the use of large-scale FPGAs and with lead-free PCB design required.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of analog design principles and architecture skills required.
• No travel is expected for this position.

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or Computer Engineering) preferred.
• Experience with regulatory EMI/EMC compliance requirements for telecom equipment is preferred.
• Experience with Ethernet and Passive Optical Networking
• Experience with implementation and validation of DDRx/LPDDRx, PCIex and embedded microcontrollers.