auratech

auratech

Senior Electrical Engineer-Analog/Mixed-Signal & FPGA

Durham, North Carolina · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
C++LinuxComputer VisionPCB DesignAltiumFPGAVerilogEmbedded SystemsEMI/EMCElectrical EngineeringPower ElectronicsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationActuators

About the role

  • AURA Technologies, LLC (AURA ) is an advanced research and development (R&D) company creating game-changing innovations for the US Department of Defense and the private sector in cutting-edge technology.
  • AURA has an immediate opening for a full-time Senior Electrical Engineer.
  • This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role within a dynamic multidisciplinary research and development organization.

Responsibilities

  • You will lead your technical team in collaboration with other senior architects, designers, and test/validation groups.
  • The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for requirements definition, detailed design, implementation, and validation of complex electronic systems.

Requirements

  • Strong experience leading FPGA-based product development, including hands-on implementation of FPGA-based control and data-processing systems and integration into larger systems.
  • Strong experience designing analog front ends, multi-channel digitizers, digital interconnects, and FPGA- or SoC-based control and data-processing systems.
  • Experience evaluating, characterizing, and selecting analog sensors for precision measurement applications.
  • Experience with designing for EMI mitigation, noise immunity, shielding, and galvanic isolation of analog and digital components.
  • Familiarity with voltage and current sensing technologies for both AC and DC systems in precision measurement applications.
  • Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills, with the ability to approach complex problems creatively and work effectively with incomplete or evolving specifications.
  • Due to Department of Defense contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens to be considered for this position.
  • The successful candidate must be located within commuting distance of our corporate office in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina area.
  • 5+ years of FPGA development and implementation experience, which may be concurrent with mixed-signal electronics experience.
  • Submit your cover letter, CV and three professional references (one of which must be from a current or former supervisor) in PDF format ONLY via BambooHR.

Nice to have

  • Strong experience with Xilinx Ultrascale Plus FPGA development using the Vivado tool suite
  • experience with Zynq SoC platforms is a significant plus.
  • Embedded software development experience in C/C++, including designing and implementing low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers to enable software access to sensors, actuators, and communication interfaces
  • Embedded software development on Zynq SoC or Xilinx soft cores in Xilinx Vivado/Vitus toolchain (bare-metal and/or Linux, as appropriate).
  • Familiarity with power systems for medium-voltage DC switching, instrumentation, and control applications.
  • Exposure to network cybersecurity products or other high-security or mission-critical hardware systems.
  • Proven experience transitioning products from functional prototypes through qualification and into low-rate initial production (LRIP).
  • First-hand experience guiding products through certification and homologation testing, including FCC emissions compliance and UL or equivalent safety requirements.

Benefits

  • Fortune 500-level Health Care Coverage
  • Unlimited Leave Program after 60 days

Company info

  • We are a Drug Free Workplace and thus, all job offers are contingent on successful criminal background check and drug screen.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer and affirmative action employer of veterans protected under the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistant Act (VEVRAA).

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