Principal Analog and Mixed Signal Electrical Engineer

Echodyne

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Position Title:

Principal Analog and Mixed Signal Electrical Engineer

Echodyne offers the worlds first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points.

Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).

Echodyne is seeking a Principal Analog and Mixed-Signal Electrical Engineer to join the Advanced Technology Development team and lead new circuit architectures, signal-chain development, power solutions, and rapid hardware prototyping for future radar products. You will join a high-performing, cross-disciplinary team where senior engineers have meaningful technical ownership, run fast experiments, and see their work move directly into future radar products.

You will work on prototype development, including high-speed data acquisition, precision timing, compute interfaces, calibration hardware, and power entry and conditioning for a larger radar platform. The ideal candidate combines strong hands‑on analog and mixed‑signal design depth with technical judgment, experimental discipline, and experience carrying hardware from architecture through characterization and product transition.

• Lead analog, mixed-signal, timing, data-conversion, and power technology development for critical technologies and future Echodyne radar platforms
• Turn emerging system needs into practical receiver interfaces, converter and clocking architectures, power circuits, prototypes, and validated reference designs
• Design, simulate, build, bring up, and characterize prototype hardware to prove feasibility, expose limits, and reduce technical risk early
• Collaborate with RF, FPGA, PCB design, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and key stakeholders to deliver mission‑critical hardware within challenging engineering constraints
• Apply modern best‑practices and establish practical guidance for reliability, design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), signal and power integrity, and testability
• Provide Principal‑level leadership through architecture and design reviews, mentoring, hands‑on problem solving, lab investigation, and transition of proven capabilities into product development

• Strong hands‑on experience in analog and mixed-signal circuit design across architecture, schematic design, simulation, layout support, prototype bring‑up, characterization, and verification
• Experience with low‑noise receiver interfaces, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, down-conversion or intermediate-frequency circuits, timing, clock distribution, and frequency synthesizers
• Broad knowledge of signal-chain analysis, noise, linearity, dynamic range, sampling, jitter, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI or EMC
• Experience with circuit modeling, SPICE simulation, design analysis, PCB implementation, laboratory instrumentation, data acquisition, and automated test
• Experience with power architecture, regulators and converters, power entry and conditioning, protection, sequencing, or higher‑power electronic subsystems
• Ability…