Intermediate Hardware Designer

Description

As a member of a dynamic development team, the Intermediate HW designer will be responsible for design, testing and delivery to manufacturing of carrier-grade Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)

· Work together with hardware engineers, software engineers and system architects to deliver high-quality designs 

· Coordinate and lead various aspects of board-level design, specification, verification, and implementation for OLT circuit packs 

· Work with third-party Suppliers to guide the design of the product through procurement specifications.

· Coordinate and lead life cycle management of products' BOMs

· Define technical specifications to support design concepts, and collaborate in peer specification reviews

· Interface with component vendors and negotiate design specifications with external suppliers

· Develop and execute test plans, and review results with peers 

· Support the technology transfer to manufacturing/production testing

· Support Component Engineering efforts during and after design cycles

· Oversee the development of automated product test stations, review test results.

· Investigate customer HW related issues

Requirements

· Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent coupled with 3+ years' experience in digital, optical RF, or Wi-Fi network equipment design

· Experience with board-level development utilizing high-speed digital circuits

· Experience with hardware debugging tools -- analyzers, scopes, emulators

· Experience using a variety of high-speed lab equipment (e.g. Spectrum Analyzers – SNR measurements; high-speed signal analysis and probing)

· Experience with carrier-grade system requirements and high-speed WiFi systems would be an asset

· Experience with design capture tools like Mentor Graphics -DX Designer, Expedition would be an asset

· Experience with a variety of telecommunications standards would be an asset

· Experience with high-speed digital devices and RF signal analysis would be an asset

· Experience with scripting languages would be an asset