Abacus Staffing is hiring: Hardware Engineer in Lexington

Hardware Engineer opportunity in Lexington, MA!

*Active Secret Clearance is required*

Required skills:

1. In-depth understanding of high-speed board design (20GHz) utilizing Xilinx FPGAs, ARM based Single Board Computers (SBCs), Ethernet, power design including Point-of-Load (POL) converters, power sequencing, filtering and distribution, signal integrity, modern memory interfaces including DDR3 and DDR4, component derating, various signaling technologies and associated translations.
2. Must have the ability to distill signal integrity simulations to rulesets for layout engineers with stackup and line width tolerance specifications for fabrication.
3. Must have demonstrated track record in the use of the aforementioned technologies when designing, testing, integrating, and delivering space-based hardware.
4. Unparalleled laboratory-based integration and high-speed test skills are required.
5. Additionally, the ability to work in an exclusively UNIX based environment complemented with excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills is required.

Skills preferred:

1. An understanding of analog, mixed-signal circuit design, A/D and D/A converters, EsiLink, I2C and SPI busses is a plus.
2. Knowledge of SFP, SFP+, MSA300, XFP, QSFP interfaces in SONET and OTN deployments a plus.
3. Working knowledge of Mentor Graphics Dx Designer, Expedition, Hyperlinx, HSPICE, VHDL, System Verilog and Ansys HFSS with SiWave helpful.

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