Senior Digital Electrical Engineer

Job Title: Senior Digital Electrical Engineer

Location: Wilsonville, OR

Employment: Direct Placement

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Compensation: $113,600 - $151,400/year.

Schedule: 40 hours/week - 1 st shift

About the Opportunity:

• We are seeking a self-motivated Senior Digital Electrical Engineer as a hands on individual contributor, one that is ready to expand their technical knowledge working on complex system designs.
• As a Senior Digital Electrical Engineer, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams designing, developing, and verifying digital circuit boards for use in our complex imaging systems.
• These applications include multi-processor/FPGA boards, battery powered and low power electronics, Image processing and many other areas.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Working closing with Product management and business development to help define our products.
• Translates project and system requirements into well-defined hardware designs and boards.
• Collaboratively work with cross-functional teams from Product, Software, Mechanical and Systems Engineering.
• Hands-on debug and testing of prototypes and deliverable hardware.
• Release documentation into production for manufacturing.
• Supporting product introduction into production.
• Solving complex problems and finding solutions with limited direction - contributes to requirements development, proposes ways forward, and adapts appropriately to changes in requirements.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in board design.
• 5+ years of High-speed digital design experience.
• 5+ years of FPGA board design experience, including AMD Xilinx devices such as Artix/Kintex 7/Ultrascale families, Zynq 7000 and Zynq MPSoC Ultrascale designs.
• 5+ years of experience integrating and debugging systems in the lab.

What Sets You Apart:

• Experience in Mentor Graphics PADs Schematic and Layout Tools
• Experience in Altium Schematic and Layout Tools.
• Experience with AMD/Xilinx FPGA/SOC design flow tools is a plus.
• Knowledge of embedded processors and interfaces such as PCIe, DDR3/DDR4 memories, Ethernet, 1553, SERDES, Aurora, UARTS, MIPI, etc.
• Ability to write detailed design specifications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks.
• Thorough understanding of engineering theories and procedures.
• Able to manage a task with multiple cross functional members and effectively communicates status to project leadership and customers.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.

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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.