Job Description: Electrical Hardware Design and Bring-up Engineer
Seeking Electrical Hardware Design Engineer to work on a wide variety of telecommunications products. This individual will work with a multi-site team of other HW and Firmware Engineers to design, bring-up, and support a large portfolio of new and legacy custom products used by Carrier and Enterprise customers.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Development of electrical hardware used in telecommunications equipment. Equipment is primarily printed circuit board based, but may also include associated electro-mechanical equipment, cables and OEM system and chassis solutions.
- Design, documentation and testing of prototype and production designs. Work with team of HW designers as well as SW designers, manufacturing, installation, product management and other key product introduction roles to achieve time-to-market and cost objectives.
- On-going support of production hardware products, including supporting customer service groups (installation, deployment, technical support, repair), manufacturing, manufacturing test. Evaluate issues and recommend solutions via redesign, component substitution, etc.
Key Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent and 10+ years related experience.
- Familiarity with Telecom principles and standards. TDM and IP switching systems. Embedded processor systems. Real-time computing. Telecom and networking digital and analog interfaces.
- Hands on experience with test and debug tools: Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, telecom traffic and signal analyzers
- Experience with RTOS, Kernel/user space implementation, drivers, and Linux.
- Able to work independently to achieve specific goals and objectives with minimal guidance
- Able to work with multi-discipline, multi-site teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Tools:
- PCB: Cadence Concept/Orcad/Allegro
- FPGA: Verilog, VHDL, vendor specific tools
- SW: Linux, RTOS compliers
Please Note:
'All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, on the basis of disability, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.'
US Citizens and all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 10+ years of related experience
- Familiarity with telecommunications principles and standards
- Experience with TDM and IP switching systems
- Experience with embedded processor systems and real-time computing
- Experience with telecommunications and networking digital and analog interfaces
- Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, telecom traffic analyzers, and signal analyzers
- Experience with RTOS, kernel and user-space implementation, device drivers, and Linux
- Experience with Cadence Concept, OrCAD, or Allegro
- Experience with FPGA development using Verilog, VHDL, or vendor-specific tools
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- Ability to work with multidisciplinary, multi-site teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is presented as comprehensive alongside access to an Employee Assistance Program and global wellness initiatives.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as generous, including standard PTO and a paid Global Day of Service for volunteering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Hybrid work and flexible schedules are emphasized, with wellbeing programming positioned as part of a broader support offering.
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What We Do
Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) delivers communications software, IP and optical networking solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors globally. We engage deeply with our customers, helping them modernize their networks for improved competitive positioning and business outcomes in today's smart, always-on and data-hungry world. Our innovative, end-to-end solutions portfolio delivers unparalleled scale, performance, and agility, including core to edge software-centric solutions, cloud-native offers, leading-edge security and analytics tools, along with IP and optical networking solutions for 5G. To learn more about Ribbon visit rbbn.com.
