Apcon
Hardware Engineer II
Wilsonville, Oregon · Mid · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
LinuxPCB DesignFPGAEmbedded SystemsElectrical EngineeringHardware Design
About the role
- This role focuses on designing the physical electronics that power our network visibility and switching products, including embedded processors, switch ASICs, DDR4 or DDR5 memory subsystems, and the surrounding high speed digital circuitry.
- Our products run on Linux based embedded platforms and are used across a wide range of industries.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop digital hardware circuits Integrating embedded processors, switch ASICs, DDR4 or DDR5 memory, SRAM, and supporting digital logic
- Create schematics and guide PCB layout with attention to signal integrity and power integrity
- Implement and validate SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, and other digital peripheral interfaces
- Perform board bring up, hardware and board debugging
- Collaborate with software, FPGA, and manufacturing teams to ensure hardware and software integration
- Support sustaining engineering and hardware improvements across product lifecycles
- Three to six years of digital hardware design experience
Requirements
- Experience integrating embedded processors or switch ASICs
- Strong understanding of high-speed digital design principles
- Ability to read schematics, guide PCB layout, and debug hardware at the board level
- Experience with network switching hardware or other complex embedded systems
- Experience with SERDES, high speed interfaces, or multi gigabit signaling
Skills
- Candidates selected to move forward will complete our standard prescreening process, which includes a background check and drug screen.
Benefits
- BS in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Company info
- APCON designs and assembles industry-leading network visibility and security technologies in the United States, supporting some of the world's largest and fastest networks. Our solutions provide continuous, high fidelity visibility into network traffic, which helps organizations optimize performance, strengthen security, and protect mission critical systems. From data filtering to advanced packet processing, we deliver the tools enterprises need to monitor, secure, and manage their environments with confidence. We are a team that values innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence, and we are committed to building the next generation of network technology.
- We are collaborative, innovative, and committed to excellence. We are looking for a Hardware Engineer who reflects these values.
- This role is fully on site. Candidates selected to move forward will complete our standard prescreening process, which includes a background check and drug screen.
- We can only consider applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States and who do not require current or future visa sponsorship.
- APCON designs and assembles industry-leading network visibility and security technologies in the United States, supporting some of the world's largest and fastest networks.
- Our solutions provide continuous, high fidelity visibility into network traffic, which helps organizations optimize performance, strengthen security, and protect mission critical systems.
- From data filtering to advanced packet processing, we deliver the tools enterprises need to monitor, secure, and manage their environments with confidence.
- We are a team that values innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence, and we are committed to building the next generation of network technology.
- We are collaborative, innovative, and committed to excellence.
- We are looking for a Hardware Engineer who reflects these values.
- This role is fully on site.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We can only consider applicants who are legally authorized to work in the United States and who do not require current or future visa sponsorship.
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