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Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Staff Hardware Design Engineer
Promoted quickly through series of increasingly responsible positions in RF wireless product design. Handled all phases of design process from product conception and schematic definition through board layout and debugging. Managed and mentored 2 entry-level engineers.
- Dramatically reduced production costs while contributing directly to product quality and performance, innovation, and manufacturability.
- Reduced parts cost by more than 15% (primarily through second-sourcing) and reduced parts count by more than 30%. Achieved significant manufacturing cost savings and production speed / test time improvements.
- Debugged and perfected audio circuitry, eliminating burst noise and echo and improving audio quality.
- Performed full evaluation of ROHM power management IC (ASIC) which resulted in its integration in the design.
- Implemented discrete power management and audio circuitry portion of the handset, which met design specifications and functionality requirements, FTA requirements and power consumption targets, resulting in the commercialization of several handsets.
- Defined, selected, and created documentation and specifications for factory tests.
- Recognized for spearheading team innovation of first dual-mode, triple-band handset.
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Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Guided engineering team designing SC48 Live Sound Console (digital mixing board used at / on world's largest events
& recordings) - and one of company's most profitable products at this division of Avid Audio.
- The New Meadowlands Stadium installed the SC48 to deliver all in-stadium sounds.
- Created, managed $1.5M design budget & all timelines / schedules for SC48.
- Advised on industrial design, DFM (design for manufacturing), field service methods.
- Designed power subsystem, control surfaces. Tested thermal, environment, EMI (electromagnetic interference).
- Served as board-level designer on D-Control, D-Command, C24 Consoles: designed embedded processor PCBs.
- Implemented FPGAs, programmed VHDL to scan & update controls, communicate with peripheral IC's.
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Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Established/implemented the OrCAD, Allegro and CIS/CIP internal PCB design methodology.
- Led and performed the design of 8 new PCB's in first year, completed the layout of 3 of the boards in Allegro.
- Implemented a new revision control system for the company using subversion.
- Performed DO-160 qualifications for multiple new and existing designs including but not limited to EMI testing for susceptibility, radiated and conducted RF, lightning, ESD, temperature and altitude.
- Personally designed circuits featuring 3 phase brushless DC motor control, Hbridges, closed loop valve position
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Communication
Hardware Design Engineer
Designed interface test adapters (ITA's) for RF/Analog printed circuit cards and electrical assemblies (SRU/LRU) for the B2 military aircraft. The adaptor tested the airborne electronics that were removed from the aircraft.
- Repaired any faulty electronics, including reference oscillators, DC power supplies and RF receiving assemblies.
- Merged hardware and mechanical requirements for several units under one universal ITA on a single test adapter, and designed the interface circuits to mate to the unit-under-test. The interface devices included RF couplers, amplifiers, loads and transformers and discrete.
- Generated schematics, wiring/block diagrams and assembly drawings, specified and ordered parts for the test adapters, and provided cost reduction options and design review documentation.
- Typical technologies utilized included AutoCAD 14 and RF design software.
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Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer - Power Systems
Designed, performed the PCB layout, generated the BOM, tested, and integrated various DC/DC power supply topologies for analog, digital, infrared, and RF applications
- Led the design, cost account and schedule for the development of a 600W low voltage power supply from the requirements phase to the final test and integration phase
- Worked in a cross-functional team analyzing a production delay issue of a major subcontractor and provided a timely solution allowing for $30M in deliveries as well as additional follow-up contracts
- Managed junior engineers on multiple designs and reviewed, delegated and updated their project status to upper management
- Performed MIL-STD-461 EMI testing and troubleshooting on an infrared countermeasure system
- Reviewed work products prior to customer design reviews as a Subject Matter Expert
- Generated and oversaw the generation of engineering change orders, specifications, schematics, board layouts, BOMs, and various other product support paperwork
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Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Designed and debugged CD and DVD drive circuitry supporting a high volume OEM product development environment.
- Investigated and integrated write channel strategy enhancements improving customer observable drive performance.
- Implemented discrete circuitry interfacing to embedded ASIC reducing production costs and maximizing profitability.
- Improved drive performance by creating testplans to characterize ability to read/write through physical defects.
- Proved drive functionality by developing C based firmware test cases and tools to verify drive specifications.
- Designed and verified analog and digital circuits as well as firmware for rotating media using ATAPI/SCSI protocols.
- Worked directly with Japanese OEM production partners to meet product and project schedule requirements.
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Electrical And Computer Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Designed and implemented several electronic systems for high-capacity storage platforms on aggressive schedule.
- Worked as member of a cross-functional meeting, aligning areas of product development.
- Utilized designer software, developing electrical schematics and mechanical constraints, preparing PCBs for manufacturing.
- Supported debug and quality assurance phases during design verification testing on similar platform, often involving root cause analysis on critical design issues.
- Constructed prototype circuits and test fixtures for gauging electrical performance and component selection; provided rework and rewiring assistance for early release boards.
- Drafted and maintained the technical documentation of emerging product describing detailed functionality and theory of operation.
- Met maximum quarterly bonus target each time when eligible, and recognized with honorary performance achievement award.
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Electronic Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Participated in FPGA design for digital telephony with extracting superframe slot per 49 frames from 768 Kbps bearer link; receiving voice activity for multiple channels of bar graph LEDs; transmitting volume controls for each channel; Controlling LCD channel pushbuttons and loopback of data stream in test mode.
- Designed Power Distribution Interface with Actel FPGA.
- Managed procurement of a redundant, hot-swap 4KW Power System, identified potential vendors, wrote purchase specifications, evaluated vendors on cost, capabilities, reputation, etc.
- Wrote code in Assembler for programming micro core flash EEPROMs, saving 2 hours per board.
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Science Of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Worked on project concerning the Flight and Maintenance Trainers for the B-1B plane
- Attended weekly meetings, prepared power point presentation slides to prepare for design review with the Air Force and government
- Researched Integrated Keyboards, Cursor Controllers and other military equipment to use for updating the B-1B trainers
- Reviewed electrical engineering standards to clarify design details and equipment of trainers
- Updated cable harnesses, assemblies, and switch wiring for the Landing Gear, Pilot Stores, and Firmware Enable panels on the B-1B trainers
- Created purchase requisitions in ARMS program for parts needed for B-1B
- Wrote Engineering Change Orders for updating of B-1B trainer switches and panels
- Used AutoCAD, ENOVIA, and Lotus Notes programs to update, create, and rework drawings concerning the B-1B trainers
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Hardware Design Engineer
High speed Graphics boards designer for the Desktop PC and Notebook markets.
- Designed and developed state of the art DDR and SDR based PCI and AGP compliant graphics boards for PC, powered by: Number Nine's 128-bit IMAGINE, Ticket-to-ride III, and IV graphics processor series, and providing the first 3D graphics experience in the market.
- Designed/Captured Schematics, using Orcad and Viewlogic.
- Provided support for PCB layout and routing, and oversaw prototype builds, hardware bring-up, debugging and qualification.
- Qualified DRAMs, TTL and CMOS components to be used on products. Created and updated Bill of Materials, keeping within target cost.
- Utilized the Hewlett Packard's E7403A EMC Analyzer to conduct in-house EMI probing of boards prior to field regulatory testing (FCC, VCCI, CE), thereby saving thousands of dollars on prototype build.
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Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
- Designed and developed daughtercard, USB/USB OTG to test new 2G, 3G-baseband processors.
- Designed motherboard to support, evaluate, test RF, audio filter and power supply for audio amplifiers, analog and digital mixed signal circuitry including FIR/IIR filters. Guided PCBs layout.
- Developed and implemented high-speed PISMO/PISMOII memory boards (DDR2/3, PSRAM), digital and analog test boards, and emulation boards to test the new generation wireless chips.
- Designed, implemented and lab-evaluated audio amplifier and FPGA prototype boards.
- Performed full characterization and signals integrity of DSP and MCU cores of baseband processors.
- Invented and developed application board, in PCI-X slot, to reset USB high-speed bridge card to allow remote access to Palladium system for pre-silicon validation.
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Computer Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
System Design, new product design, re-design for cost and re-design for power reduction, of Cisco Catalyst 3850 Enterprise Ethernet Switch.
- Utilized HW design best practices for signal integrity, board mount power distribution, EMI
- Developed test plans for, and performed hands-on prototype bring-up and test of complex
- Coordinated among a team of board design, signal integrity, ECAD, test verification, and manufacturing engineers to bring this innovative, high volume, reliable, and cost effective
- Investigated the root cause of PCIE link reset issues between CPU and custom Switch
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Electral Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Currently designing the digital board for next generation of microwave transmission outdoor unit, with 3 senior electrical engineers.
- Recently started capturing schematic using DxDesigner from Mentor Graphics.
- Designed the clock architecture and the power tree for the system. Outlined specifications and wrote Requests For Quotation (RFQ) to clock and power ICs manufacturers. Several constraints: cost, size, efficiency and reliability.
- Selected several kind of connectors based on electrical constraints: High-speed and power signals, impedance, skew, current rating; and mechanical constraints: Z-axis tolerance, size.
- Working with Mechanical, Radio Frequency, Software and Factory teams located in different France, Italy and USA.
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Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Designing industry-standard embedded systems.
- Designed and implemented credit card size FeaturePak form factor board with Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth.
- Designed and implemented PC104 form factor board with PCIEe bridge, PCI, Ethernet switch, Wi-Fi, USB, SDVO, VGA, RS-232, RS-485 and RS-422.
- Electronic circuits design, component selection, schematic entry, PCB design rule specification and PCB layout.
- Implemented and executed detailed test procedures.
- Prepared BOMs and coordinated board build with PCB assembly house.
- Supported and improved multiple legacy products.
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Electrical Engineering
Synchronization Hardware Design Engineer
Hardware design engineer developing the synchronization plane for a multi-terabit distributed optical switching platform.
- Co-developed synchronization architecture for system.
- Managed clock distribution from master clock module to shelf clock modules to data path modules.
- Identified components and partitioned design between FPGAs and discrete circuitry.
- Produced detailed block diagrams of synchronization architecture.
- Developed robust signaling protocol.
- Improved synchronization system reliability through innovations in fast switchover capability.
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Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Master of Arts
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Preliminary design analysis of 100G backplane and Signal Integrity simulations
- Performed signal integrity evaluations on various high speed traces ranging from DS1 (1.54Mbps) to >25Gbps.
- Design and Developed the LMX backplane and conducted 10G throughput tests
- Worked with ODM partners as the lead Hardware Engineer to develop and release high volume ONT
- Developed a 8-port POTS/VDLS outdoor MDU and conducted extensive GR909 based fiber ONT tests
- Evaluated test equipment to qualify vendor sourced 10G SFP+ and XFP modules
- Designed cards and supported manufacturing over the lifetime of various Opti-6100 linecards
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Electrical Engineeering
Hardware Design Engineer
Designed and brought through international approval testing using schematic entry & VHDL on an Altera CPLD a 10/100-Base T Ethernet Quad T1/E1 PCI NIC for use in 3Com Total Control Network Switching Chassis. Was involved with International Standards Testing , Design and Qualification in ISO9001 environment for same to UL, BABT, CSA, EC Telecom standards.
- Developed and wrote design spec for Dual DS3 networking card with ATM back end and redundancy for new Millennium CO platform.
- Designed 603e Power PC based TDM signal routing test board.
- Resolved PCI Bus interface issues relating to IRDY/TRDY latency with Conexant 128 Channel HDLC Controller used with other 3Com products
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Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Designed test stations for ESS and HASS testing of avionics products. Test station equipment including Ethernet controlled AC & DC power supplies, ARINC-708 & ARINC-429 communications, Discrete inputs/outputs, RS-232 communications, Fiber Optics, Hardened DVI.
- Wrote LabVIEW code and XML resource files to control test station equipment and interface with ESS & HASS unit-under-test embedded test software.
- Wrote LabVIEW applications for engineering EMI & Environmental quality testing of avionics products.
- Designed cable harnesses for intra-station resource connections as well as for unit-under test connection.
- Created ESS & HASS temperature and vibration profiles for unit-under-test.
- Created documentation including test requirements, station hardware requirements, software requirements, test station design drawings & descriptions, cable designs, and high-level test approach architectures.
- Performed troubleshooting and repair of malfunctioning test stations on the production floor.
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Electrical Engineering
Hardware Design Engineer
Design and verify new products to enhance the CDMA BSC and provide design support for existing products.
- Board level design of Motorola Processor based circuit packs including T1/E1, SONET, LVDS and RS422 external interfaces.
- Designed ATM/UTOPIA interface using Xilinx Spartan II FPGA and Verilog hardware description language. Created test benches and performed simulations using ModelSim.
- Performed extensive Board level and System Level verification including Signal Integrity, Jitter Analysis, BER and Stress Verification.
- Subject Matter Expert of all CDMA BSC products. System level expert of CDMA BSC and all of its interfaces. Provide expert support and advice to other engineers and customers.
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Hardware Design Engineer Duties and Responsibilities
The hardware design engineer's specific responsibilities can depend on the type of device they design and their specific role on the engineering team, but many of the core duties remain consistent:
Design and Develop Hardware Components The foremost duty of a hardware design engineer is developing and designing hardware components including circuit boards, switches, processors, and networking elements. A hardware design engineer examines technological specifications and functional requirements, designing components and systems that will deliver the expected performance while working in tandem with other analog or digital elements of the device.
Modify Existing Hardware Hardware design engineers make modifications to existing hardware components and systems based on changes in functional requirements or use cases. They may also modify hardware elements to eliminate performance issues that cause the device to malfunction. In this aspect of the role, the hardware design engineer ensures that changes to components work with the system as a whole and do not impede performance.
Test Components Hardware design engineers conduct component tests throughout the design process, testing the elements individually and in conjunction with other hardware (and sometimes software) systems. The hardware design engineer then analyzes test data to guide changes, enhance system performance and stability, and eliminate defects. Each time the hardware is altered, engineers need to conduct additional tests to ensure functionality and performance.
Create Documents and Specifications Hardware design engineers prepare and maintain documents throughout the design and development process. These can include data regarding equipment specifications, power requirements for digital and analog components, and notes on testing or configuration. Rigorous documentation ensures that components and systems work as intended and can be successfully integrated into other devices. Maintaining documentation also helps with testing and troubleshooting by providing a detailed record of changes and fixes.
Oversee Manufacturing Processes Many hardware design engineers collaborate with manufacturing personnel to ensure that elements are built according to specifications. A hardware design engineer may work closely with fabricators to create a prototype of a design in order to conduct further testing and modifications and modify the design based on this prototype. They also provide feedback to manufacturing teams to update specifications and requirements.
Collaborate with Software Developers In some cases, a hardware design engineer may also work with software engineers and developers during the development cycle, especially if they are designing hardware for computers, phones, or devices that integrate with software systems. This ensures that the hardware reliably runs the intended software. This collaboration often results in many rounds of testing and revision to both hardware and software components.
Hardware Design Engineer Skills and Qualifications
Hardware design engineers need a high level of attention to detail paired with excellent technical and analytical skills. Companies typically hire applicants with a bachelor's degree in a related field, along with the following skills:- Electrical engineering - because they work with both digital and analog circuitry, a background in electrical engineering is a necessity for hardware design engineers
- Prototyping experience - knowledge of manufacturing and prototyping processes can be extremely helpful in this role, since hardware design engineers tend to work with fabricators to develop models and rapid prototypes
- Process enhancement - hardware design engineers should be able to identify opportunities to enhance efficiency to reduce development time and improve device functionality
- Mathematics - this role requires an excellent grasp of mathematics and particularly thorough knowledge of math related to circuitry, signal switching, and processing
- Analytical thinking - hardware design engineers conduct tests and interpret the results, so effective analytical skills and the ability to process data and derive insights from that data is vital
- Communication skills - written and verbal communication is also important in this role, since hardware design engineers create documentation and specifications for components they design and work with other engineers
Hardware Design Engineer Education and Training
Hardware design engineers need at least a bachelor's degree in a related field, which can include electrical engineering or computer engineering, depending on their specific industry. Hardware design engineers should seek out degrees from programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Hardware design engineers may also need to take continuing education courses during their career to maintain familiarity with trends and emerging technologies as hardware processes and best practices evolve.
Hardware Design Engineer Salary and Outlook
Hardware design engineer salaries can vary based on their specific field and focus. Computer hardware engineers, for example, earn a median annual wage of $115,120, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. The same data shows that electronics engineers earn a median yearly wage of $97,970. The BLS expects employment for hardware engineers to grow through 2026, with computer hardware engineering jobs increasing by 5 percent and electronics engineering jobs increasing by 7 percent.
Helpful Resources
We searched the web and found many resources for further reading if you're interested in learning more about working as a hardware design engineer:
Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - the IEEE is a professional organization for engineers that provides opportunities to connect and learn about the latest industry developments
Careers in Computer Hardware Engineering - this guide from the Institute for Career Research explores careers in computer hardware engineering and design and provides advice for job-seekers
"8 Essential Tools for a Hardware Design Engineer" - an experienced computer hardware engineer provides a guide to the most useful and versatile tools of the job
The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware - discover practical examples of hardware design engineering topics from longtime hardware hacker Andrew Bunnie Huang
