Principal Hardware Engineer

Overview

Our Engineering team at GSSI is growing and we need people that want to help us grow even faster. Here’s some reasons why Engineers like working at GSSI:

• Industry leading technology and innovation
• Fast paced environment with exposure to all aspects of product development and support
• A stable, but small enough company that you can still make a big difference
• Everything, from concept to product manufacturing, done right here in Nashua NH
• We work hard, but we respect your life outside work hours

We are looking for a Principal Hardware Engineer that will be responsible for designing, implementing and supporting complex hardware solutions for GSSI ground penetrating radar products. As a key member of our team, the right candidate is expected to make experience-based decisions and recommendations that best support current and future products. An in-depth understanding of all aspects of hardware design, implementation and support from concept to production launch is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and invent new high-quality product concepts for GSSI GPR products
• Help to evaluate and make hardware technology decisions and roadmaps based on experience
• Hands on electrical hardware development and support from concept to production launch including circuit design, schematic design, PCB design, testing and documentation
• Evaluate complex systems and components by designing and conducting research and development programs when appropriate
• Work directly with Production staff to help support products throughout their entire product life cycle
• Work independently and within groups to meet multiple goals simultaneously
• Design test methods and test equipment for finished products to ensure hardware meets and maintains stated system-level and quality requirements
• Communicate progress and challenges during development with functional and project management
• Maintain product and company reputation by complying with federal and state regulations
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Required

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering or equivalent engineering degree.

• 15+ years of related Electrical Engineering experience
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality complex solutions on time and on budget both as a team lead and a team member

• Significant experience in both complex digital and analog PCB designs
• Experience with FPGA based designs and hardware description languages including VHDL and Verilog
• Proven experience with high-speed circuit design
• Full product lifecycle experience from concept through to manufacturing
• Must be able to work both independently and within varying sized groups

• Familiar with quality assurance principles and root cause analysis related to electronic and mechanical fabrication and assembly
• Experience and interest in mentoring other engineers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with the following:

• RF system design
• Embedded systems design
• Radar systems and related technologies
• Altium Designer schematic capture and layout
• Use of simulation tools for analog and digital circuit design

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and use fine motor skills. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use fine motor skills, and reach. The employee is occasionally required to bend, kneel, squat, climb, and lift. The employee must occasionally lift or carry a maximum of 50 lbs.