The Role
The Digital Hardware Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and improving embedded control systems, managing schematics and PCBs, and ensuring compliance through collaboration with firmware engineers and manufacturing.
Summary Generated by Built In
Position: Digital Hardware Engineer
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania (On-site only — no remote)
Role Overview Our client is seeking an experienced Digital Hardware Engineer with strong PC board design expertise to develop specialty, made-to-order embedded control systems built to withstand harsh industrial environments.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania (On-site only — no remote)
Role Overview Our client is seeking an experienced Digital Hardware Engineer with strong PC board design expertise to develop specialty, made-to-order embedded control systems built to withstand harsh industrial environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and improve digital hardware for embedded control platforms
- Create and update schematics and PCBs; manage component selection, DFM, and DFT practices
- Lead peer reviews for schematics, PCB layout, and design outputs
- Design microcontroller I/O, signal conditioning, and serial communication buses (SPI, I²C, UART)
- Collaborate with firmware engineers on interface definitions and board bring-up
- Execute board-level validation, functional testing, and EMC compliance
- Partner with manufacturing to resolve build issues and support release to production
- Produce clear documentation: BOMs, interface specs, cost estimates, and revision control
- BS/MS in Electrical, Electronic, or Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience with a focus on digital circuits
- Proficiency in Altium (schematic and PCB layout)
- Digital logic, embedded microcontrollers, serial communications (SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet, RS-232/485)
- FPGA/CPLD development and HDL (VHDL, Verilog)
- Circuit simulation tools (LTspice, Simulink, Plexim)
- Analog circuits and power electronics
- IPC-610, UL/CSA compliance standards
Skills Required
- BS/MS in Electrical, Electronic, or Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience with a focus on digital circuits
- Proficiency in Altium (schematic and PCB layout)
- Digital logic, embedded microcontrollers, serial communications (SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet, RS-232/485)
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