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# Lead Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,600.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Altium Designer, Data Centers, Software Debugging, Formal Verification, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), OrCAD, Schematic Capture, Signal Integrity, System on a Chip, SystemVerilog, Test Case, Test Execution Engine, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Vivado
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us0c2e1960e3d94bdb574723d5dfa7c95f

## About the Role

* Experience designing high-speed digital boards (>1GHz signals) with DDR, FPGAs, Networking, etc.
 * Experience with Altium schematic capture
 * Experience with EMC mitigation techniques and testing
 * Signal Integrity simulation experience.
 * Power Integrity simulation experience *A Plus!
 * Some experience with FPGA design and toolsets *A Plus!
 * Quality candidates will have experience with:
 * Bringing up circuit boards.
 * With technical equipment such as but not limited to power supplies, function generators, DMMs, Oscilloscopes with specialized probes.
 * Working in a professional laboratory setting.
 * With test execution, including test case generation, execution, and reporting.
 * Debugging and problem-solving skills to identify root causes and provide detailed analysis.
 * Knowledge of verification methodologies and standards relevant to the space industry.

Requirements
Additional Requirements:

 * Verilog / VHDL/SystemVerilog/Vitis, Versal
 * Experience with latest versions of some Xilinx / Altera devices such as: Kintex, Artix, Zynq, Cyclone V, Cyclone V SoC, Stratix, Arria
 * Experience with Vivado and/or latest version of Quartus
 * Schematic Capture with OrCAD, DxDesigner, or Altium
 * Use of signal integrity tools such as HyperLynx a plus

## Description

A Commissioning Project Engineer (CxPE) supports the delivery of data center capacity through managing project milestone auditing, calibration, and commissioning execution for new …

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