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# Hardware Engineer

- **Company:** Connexion Systems & Engineering
- **Location:** Burlington, MA, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Altium Designer, Bash Shell, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Linux on Embedded Systems, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), PCI Express, Schematic Capture, Data Processing, Scripting, Mentor Graphics, Front End Software Development, Communication Devices
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8824168/hardware-engineer

## About the Role

Experience with the part selection, schematic capture, layout, and test of complex mixed-signal boards targeting SoCs or FPGAs with all relevant clocking, power, and high-rate interfaces

 - Experience working in desktop and embedded Linux
 - Experience with one or more scripting/embedded programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Bash
 - Experience with typical lab equipment including high-speed oscilloscopes, bench power supplies, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators
 - Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar
 - Experience working on cross-disciplinary teams with Mechanical and RF engineers

Nice-to-have:

 - Experience designing cost- and size-sensitive baseband hardware for commercial, cellular, or military applications
 - Experience with high-reliability design for aerospace and military applications
 - Experience with designing for medium-rate production up to 1000s / year
 - Understanding of RF communication systems and digital signal processing, and ability to translate these to hardware requirements for sampling data converters, data processing, and RF performance
 - Experience with NXP i.MX processors and similar
 - Experience with NXP baseband processors
 - Experience with Xilinx/AMD FPGAs, MPSoCs, and ACAPs
 - Experience with ADI transceivers
 - Experience with Mentor Graphics Xpedition
 - Experience with Altium
 - Experience with SERDES including PCIe Gen 2+
 - Experience with DDR such as LPDDR5

## Description

This engineer will support the development and testing of baseband hardware and PCBAs for Tactical Edge Communications. The hardware in question is highly SWaP-C constrained and spans RF to digitization. The first 3-6 months of the role will be primarily in the lab testing and debugging existing hardware, and then the role transitions into more design work for follow-up hardware in different form factors and configurations, so a strong background in design and test are both relevant., Test and debug of miniature hardware spanning RF front-end, transceivers, SoCs, baseband processors

 - Design of communication hardware targeting miniature form-factors
 - Writing and support of design validation and test plans
 - Collaboration with RF engineers, software engineers, mechanical engineers, and waveform analysts


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