Lead Embedded Hardware Engineer

• Lead hands-on hardware enhancements, revisions, and upgrades for existing embedded electronic products.
• Design and modify analog, digital, mixed-signal, microcontroller-based, sensor-interface, wireless, and power circuitry.
• Develop schematics and review PCB layouts for performance, signal integrity, EMC, manufacturability, and testability.
• Perform board bring-up, functional verification, environmental and reliability testing, and complex hardware debugging.
• Investigate field failures, returned products, intermittent defects, and hardware-versus-firmware issues.
• Support manufacturing through engineering changes, yield improvement, defect reduction, pilot builds, and production troubleshooting.
• Partner with procurement and supply chain on component availability, alternate qualification, obsolescence, supplier issues, and second sourcing.
• Support engineering documentation, configuration management, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, and product compliance activities.
• Provide technical direction, mentoring, design reviews, prioritization, and knowledge-sharing for a small engineering team.
• Collaborate closely with firmware, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, technical support, and operations.

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting embedded electronic products.
• Demonstrated ownership of circuit design, schematic development, PCB revisions or reviews, and board bring-up.
• Experience with analog, digital, or mixed-signal circuitry involving microcontrollers, sensors, power supplies, battery-powered devices, or embedded communication interfaces.
• Experience improving or sustaining released products through engineering changes, production support, component changes, field issues, or reliability improvements.
• Strong laboratory troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills using equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, digital multimeters, and power supplies.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, suppliers, quality, and cross-functional product teams.
• Ability to lead technical work and mentor others while remaining personally hands-on.
• Experience with a professional schematic and PCB design platform such as Altium Designer, PADS, OrCAD, Cadence, KiCad, or a comparable tool.

A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related discipline is preferred. Candidates with substantial equivalent embedded-hardware experience will also be considered.

Preferred Experience:

• Wireless sensors, industrial IoT, instrumentation, telemetry, data acquisition, medical devices, avionics, or other rugged connected products.
• Low-power or battery-operated hardware using Bluetooth, BLE, sub-GHz, 900 MHz, Wi-Fi, cellular, or comparable wireless technology.
• Accelerometers, vibration sensing, ultrasound, temperature sensing, signal conditioning, analog front ends, ADCs, or DSP-based systems.
• DFM, DFT, EMC/EMI mitigation, environmental testing, and product certification.
• FCC, CE, UL, HazLoc, ATEX, IECEx, ISO 9001, or another structured product-compliance environment.
• Working knowledge of embedded firmware, C, C++, Python, or Linux.
• Experience working in a small or mid-sized product company where engineers carry broad ownership.

• $130,000-$140,000 base salary
• Bonus opportunity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Less than 5% travel

This position is fully on-site in Jacksonville. Candidates must currently reside within a workable commuting distance. Relocation is not available.

Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, and we welcome and celebrate diversity.