Hardware Engineer
Setting: Onsite
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Duration: 11 months
Experience Range: 8+ years
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and implement high-reliability electronic systems, including PCBs, embedded systems, and power electronics.
- Lead and perform all aspects of circuit card design lifecycle activities, including requirements capture, schematic capture, component selection, signal integrity analysis, simulations, timing analysis, and thermal analysis.
- Generate PCB layout constraint guidelines, routing instructions, and board stack-up creation, as well as oversee the routing, layout, fabrication, and assembly of complex designs.
- Creation of test plans, root cause analysis, and testing of electronic circuits and systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware-related issues during the development and testing phases
What We Are Looking For:
- Design circuit cards using FPGA, processor, and DDR memory components, as well as industry interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, I2C, USB, LVDS, and SERDES bus technologies
- Work collaboratively with team members and independently on assigned tasks.
- Utilize schematic capture tools, such as Siemens Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and/or Xpedition, Altium, Cadence Allegro, EAGLE, and KiCAD, to create circuit card designs.
- Familiarity with Agile for Hardware Development, including planning, tracking, and managing hardware development projects in JIRA.
- Compliance with industry standards and regulations, including DO-254 and DO-178C, is a plus. Knowledge of the latest technology trends in high-speed digital design (up to 40GHz), microprocessor, memory, FPGA, and interface protocols is also a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Education: Bachelors
Certifications and Licenses: Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
We Offer:
- We offer our contractors medical, dental, vision, and direct primary care benefits and contribute towards each contractor’s monthly health insurance premium.
- After six months of employment, they can also participate in our 401(k) plan.
- Our 401(k) plan is matched up to 4% and has 100% vesting immediately.
The Ash Group:
- About the right opportunities, integrity, professionalism, and responsiveness. That’s what you can expect from The Ash Group.
- We understand that finding the right fit for you is so much more than a pattern matching your skills to a set of job requirements. That’s why we take the time to listen and learn about you, your life and work styles, your goals, and your interests.
- We use that knowledge, along with our expertise and connections, to help you achieve better work and a better life. Success, flexibility, and a fast track can happen when you work with a firm that understands your strengths, goals, and the kind of position that meshes perfectly with them.
- We minimize your search time and maximize the quality of your work experience.
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