Senior Electrical Engineer-Analog​/Mixed-Signal & FPGA

Overview

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.

If you are a smart, capable, and talented individual who possesses high integrity, thrives in a fast-paced environment, wants to chart your own course based on your capabilities, and is willing to be accountable for failures and successes, then continue reading because you may be the ideal candidate to join our exponentially growing R&D business.

AURA has an immediate opening for a full-time Senior Electrical Engineer. The successful candidate must be located within commuting distance of our corporate office in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina area. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role within a dynamic multidisciplinary research and development organization.

This position combines deep individual technical contribution with technical leadership. The Senior Electrical Engineer is responsible for requirements definition, detailed design, implementation, and validation of complex electronic systems. The role involves designing and delivering solutions that integrate embedded systems, sensing, FPGA, analog, and power electronics. You will lead your technical team in collaboration with other senior architects, designers, and test/validation groups.

• Expert-level experience designing, implementing, and validating analog, digital, and mixed-signal embedded systems, including requirements definition, analog and digital design, schematic capture, PCB layout, fabrication and assembly vendor coordination, bring-up, debugging, rework, testing, and transition to production.
• Strong experience leading FPGA-based product development, including hands-on implementation of FPGA-based control and data-processing systems and integration into larger systems.
• Fluency in Verilog, with the ability to develop, debug, and maintain production-quality FPGA RTL designs.
• 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.
• Proficiency with industry-standard electronics design and collaboration tools, including schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium strongly preferred), and disciplined application of design-for-fabrication, design-for-test, and design-for-reliability best practices.
• High competency with standard laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters.
• Outstanding troubleshooting and debugging skills, with the ability to approach complex problems creatively and work effectively with incomplete or evolving specifications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document designs and communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• 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.

• Experience developing manufacturing test strategies, including first-hand experience implementing JTAG-based test procedures.
• 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.

Note: The following reflects minimum expectations for experience and education as they relate to the Senior Electrical Engineer role.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 10+ years of professional experience in the design and implementation of mixed-signal electronics, or a balanced combination of analog and digital system design.
• 5+ years of FPGA development and implementation experience, which may be concurrent with mixed-signal electronics experience.
• Experience serving as lead designer or…