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Lead Digital Hardware Engineer
Woburn, MA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Woburn, MA
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- PhD + 2 years, MS + 5 years, or BS + 7 years.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Ability to obtain a security clearance is required; U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government.
About the job
Leads design, development, integration, and testing of complex digital hardware prototypes for sensing and counter-sensing systems.
What you'll do
- Lead small multidisciplinary teams designing, building, integrating, and testing digital circuit cards and hardware systems.
- Perform signal-, power-, and timing-integrity analyses; define design constraints and validate performance through simulations and testing.
- Develop and review engineering documentation, guide work against performance goals and risks, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- PhD + 2 years, MS + 5 years, or BS + 7 years of experience in digital circuit card design assemblies and designing, building, integrating, and testing complex electronic systems.
- Experience defining digital interfaces, clocking schemes, and hardware architecture involving microcontrollers, FPGAs/SoCs, and data-converter ICs; experience with high-speed digital interfaces and signal-integrity analysis.
- Experience with CAD-based schematic capture and simulation tools; proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python and/or other higher-level languages.
Nice to have
- Active Secret Clearance.
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
Pay
$174.000 to $225.000 USD base salary
Tools
FPGAs/SoCs, PCIe, SerDes, Ethernet, DDR, Altium Designer, MATLAB, Python
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