Principal Electrical Engineer, Opengear; Sandy, UT - Hybrid

Principal Electrical Engineer, Opengear (Sandy, UT - Hybrid)

Job Category
:
Engineering

Requisition Number
: PRINC
001455

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• Posted:
  October 17, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Sandy, UT 84070, USA

Opengear designs and manufactures products for data center and remote site management. We are a rapidly growing supplier of sophisticated data center, network and remote site management products. Our customers include tech unicorns and Fortune 100 companies. We are the leading supplier of out-of-band solutions for IT infrastructure management and are actively exploring new solutions for hyper‑scale data center deployment and management.

We are a global company with offices in Brisbane, Australia and Sandy, Utah.

We are seeking an accomplished and innovative Principal Electronics Engineer to join our Brisbane-based hardware team. In this role, you’ll drive our hardware design strategy, serve as a technical authority on embedded electronics, and guide teams through complex development challenges. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role requiring deep technical knowledge, product insight, and a collaborative leadership style.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the next generation of Opengear’s network resilience products through challenging, end‑to‑end software and firmware development across our solution stack — from embedded firmware and Linux kernel drivers to web‑based interfaces and centralized management platforms. You’ll be part of a collaborative work environment with a strong engineering culture, while also gaining leadership opportunities such as mentoring junior engineers and influencing product architecture and technical direction.

In addition, the position provides a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and significant career growth potential in a high‑demand technology sector.

• Lead design and validation of complex electronic systems, including chip‑down ARM and x86 SoCs, network switches, high speed interfaces.
• Review and provide guidance on schematics, PCB layouts, component selection and system design for reliability, compliance and cost optimization.
• Technically guide board bring‑up, validation, signal integrity analysis and pre‑compliance activities.
• Customer‑focused solution collaboration
• With firmware and mechanical team members to ensure seamless integration and synergies.
• With software engineering and architecture to ensure alignment and overall optimization.
• With product management on technical feasibility and design trade‑offs.
• With engineering management on complexity estimates, work breakdowns, milestones and risk burndown.
• Strategic and operational involvement
• Support and lead root‑cause analysis for hardware issues from initial prototypes through production.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools and documentation practices.
• Provide valuable input into risk assessment, regulatory certification planning and supply chain resilience evaluations.
• Serve as technical mentor to other members of the hardware team.
• Identify and advocate for professional development opportunities alongside engineering management.
• Guide innovations to alignment with strategic direction, outline design trade‑offs especially around cost/time and modularity/complexity.

• 10+ years of industry experience in electronics design.
• Proven track record of delivering production‑grade hardware from concept through manufacturing.
• Expertise in digital circuit design, high‑speed interfaces and power supply design.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on documentation suitable for an intended audience.
• Ability to lead by example and inspire excellence through challenges and complexity.
• Experience with Altium Designer (preferred) or similar schematic capture and layout tools.
• Strong understanding of DFM, DFT, signal integrity, power network analysis, thermal and EMI/EMC considerations.

Experience with FPGAs, cellular modules or RF systems.

Experience with regulatory compliance testing, EMC design best‑practices and troubleshooting.

Experience with embedded Linux…