Senior Electrical Engineer

The Senior Electrical Engineer - (Hardware) leads the design, integration, and validation of custom electronics used in Kopin's microdisplay-based solutions. This includes microdisplay driver boards, interface modules, imaging electronics, sensor/camera interface boards, and system-level hardware for weapon sights, HMDs, medical viewers, FPV goggles, and related embedded platforms.

The role owns complex PCB-level designs from concept through prototype validation and production transition, leads hardware trade studies, mentors less experienced engineers, and serves as a technical lead with Systems, Embedded Software, FPGA, Optics, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and suppliers. Strong embedded hardware, power, high-speed digital, mixed-signal, SWaP-optimized design, and hands-on lab debug experience are required.

• Provide technical direction for PCB layout in Altium, including stack-up definition, controlled-impedance routing, high-speed placement, grounding, shielding, thermal management, manufacturability, testability, and rigid-flex/flex considerations where applicable.
• Define and document electrical interfaces to optics, mechanical, firmware, FPGA, and system teams, including pinouts, timing, power budgets, connector/harness requirements, EMI/ESD concerns, and interface constraints.
• Lead board bring-up, integration, and debug activities, including:
  • Power‑on sequencing, functional validation, and margin evaluation
  • Signal integrity, timing, interface reliability, and noise investigations
  • Integration with firmware, FPGA logic, optics modules, microdisplays, sensors, and host systems
  • Environmental, thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC, and ruggedization testing
• Build and characterize prototypes, development boards, evaluation setups, and test fixtures for concept evaluation, verification, and troubleshooting.
• Lead design reviews, peer reviews, risk reviews, and trade studies; identify technical risks early and drive closure through analysis, prototyping, simulation, or test.
• Generate and maintain schematics, BoMs, design reports, ICDs, ECOs, test procedures, verification records, and revision‑controlled hardware artifacts.
• Mentor junior and mid-level electrical engineers, review designs, and help establish practical design guidelines, reusable circuits, and hardware best practices.
• Support DFM/DFT reviews, NPI, supplier and contract manufacturer interactions, failure analysis, sustaining engineering, and transition from prototype into production.
• Contribute technical inputs to estimates, schedules, proposals, customer discussions, and program planning involving hardware scope, risk, or architecture.

• Kopin is a defense contractor and is subject to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). You must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (green card holder) to be considered for this position.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 8 to 12 years of PCB-level hardware development experience for embedded systems, including ownership of complex designs from concept through prototype validation and production release.
• Proficiency with Altium Designer or comparable schematic/layout tools, with the ability to create, review, and release high‑quality design packages.
• Demonstrated experience with:
  • Power supply design, sequencing, protection, power budgeting, grounding, and noise control
  • High‑speed digital interfaces, mixed‑signal board design, and embedded interface validation
  • FPGA/MCU/SoC‑based board implementation, bring‑up, and hardware/software integration
  • Component selection, trade studies, margin analysis, and lifecycle/availability risk management
  • Strong hands‑on lab experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power/protocol analyzers, JTAG/debug tools, soldering/rework equipment, and related bench instrumentation.
• Ability to lead designs independently from requirements definition through architecture, schematic design, layout guidance, bring‑up, integration, verification, and production transition.
• Experience leading or participating in design reviews, peer reviews, root‑cause investigations, and cross‑functional integration.
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