Senior Hardware Engineering

Hardware Design Engineer The Sr. Hardware Design Engineer role focuses primarily on sustaining existing products, improving production yield and processes, and owning custom test equipment, while also contributing to new product design and development. This position offers a broad hardware scope across digital, mixed-signal, RF, and analog domains, with a strong emphasis on RF design and measurement. Lead sustainment activities for existing hardware products, proactively identifying and resolving issues to improve production yield and reliability.

Analyze recurring production and field issues, implement corrective actions, and optimize designs and processes to enhance manufacturability and performance.

Own the design and development of custom test equipment and test station hardware used for production, qualification, and automated test.

Design circuit boards for test stations, including power supplies, communication interfaces, RF sections, and integration of processors and FPGAs.

Act as a key stakeholder in new hardware designs by participating in design reviews, providing detailed technical feedback, and influencing architecture and implementation decisions.

Perform full lifecycle hardware design using Altium, from schematic capture through manufacturing documentation and support.

Specify, implement, and verify high-speed interfaces, processors, microcontrollers, and mixed-signal circuitry across a variety of compute platforms and communication interfaces.

Use common electrical test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters to validate and troubleshoot designs.

Collaborate with contract manufacturers and component suppliers to resolve production, quality, and yield issues, and to implement design or process changes as needed.

Participate in environmental screening and qualification testing, including HALT/HASS, ESS, vibration, and temperature testing, and use results to drive design improvements.

Work within regulated design and manufacturing processes, adhering to relevant quality and design assurance standards and documentation practices.

Partner with cross-functional teams, including product development, test engineering, and manufacturing, to ensure hardware meets performance, reliability, and compliance requirements.

Support automated test and data analysis activities by working with software and test engineering teams that use tools such as LabVIEW, Python, C/C++, MATLAB, and NI hardware.

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Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

Well-rounded hardware spanning digital, mixed-signal, RF, and analog design.

Experience with high-speed interfaces, processors, and microcontrollers, preferably across a variety of interfaces and compute platforms.

Full lifecycle design experience using Altium, from schematic capture through manufacturing support.

Proficiency with common electrical test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters.

Experience in regulated design and manufacturing environments, such as those following AS9100, DO-160, DO-254, or comparable quality and design-assurance practices.

Experience with aviation or avionics hardware, including transponders, ADSB, surveillance, or other safety-critical electronic products.

Experience in safetycritical or highly regulated electronic product development.

Experience designing boards that include FPGAs, especially in systems integrating processors and FPGAs, along with power supplies, communication signals, and RF for transmitting and receiving.

Familiarity with tools used for automated test and data analysis, such as LabVIEW, Python, C/C++, MATLAB, and NI hardware.

Experience with environmental screening and qualification testing, including HALT/HASS, ESS, vibration, and temperature testing.

Experience working directly with contract manufacturers and component suppliers to address production and quality issues.

This is an onsite role based in a hardware-focused engineering environment, with work performed on site five days a week. The engineer works handson with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, signal generators, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters, as well as custom test stations and NIbased test hardware. The setting is a regulated design and manufacturing environment that follows structured quality and design assurance practices, supporting safetycritical and highreliability electronic products. This is a Permanent position based out of Bingen, WA.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location This is a Permanent position based out of Bingen, WA.

Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Oct 29, 2026.

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