Electrical Engineering Production S

This in an onsite, full-time position located in our Reston, VA. facility**
The Hardware Electrical Engineer designs and brings up the electronics behind Kopin's microdisplay products: display driver boards, interface boards, and the hardware that connects our displays to processors, SOMs, cameras, and sensors. The engineer takes boards from schematic through prototype bring-up, debug, and into production, working closely with firmware, FPGA, optics, mechanical, and manufacturing.

Bring up and debug new hardware in the lab, including power-on, functional testing, and troubleshooting power, signal, and interface issues.

• Integrate boards with microdisplays, SOMs and processors, cameras, and sensors, working with firmware and FPGA engineers to get systems running.
• Define electrical interfaces with the mechanical, optics, and firmware teams, including pinouts, connectors, and power budgets.
• Support design reviews, contract manufacturer builds, failure analysis, and the transition of designs into production.

Kopin is a defense contractor and is subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). You must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (green card holder) to be considered for this position.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on PCB-level hardware design for electronic products, including taking boards from schematic through prototype bring-up.
• Working knowledge of power supply design and common digital interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB, MIPI, or LVDS.
• Hands-on bench skills with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, soldering, and rework.
• Able to explain design trade-offs, risks, and debug results to engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

• Basic firmware or scripting skills, such as C or Python, for board bring-up and test.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces, display or video pipelines, or FPGA-based designs.
• Experience with rugged or military hardware, including EMI/EMC, ESD, environmental testing, or MIL-STD requirements.
• Flex or rigid-flex design experience.
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