Staff Engineer, Applications Hardware

Aleron
United States, Texas, Austin
Mar 31, 2025
Description As the Staff Applications Hardware Engineer, you will drive the development of both internal and customer facing evaluation hardware. This role will work with our software development team, our design engineering team and our field engineering team to satisfy internal and customer needs for low friction solutions to evaluate our SoC performance and power. The successful candidate should have strong experience with PCB development for battery operated consumer electronics devices. Experience with wearable devices is a definite plus. The candidate must have experience with developing for and debugging on ARM based platforms, and should have experience with low-power designs. The person in this role will involve debugging device level issues on our SoCs, supporting our field engineers for customer issues with their components and boards, and supporting customer facing documentation such as Application Notes and Hardware Design Guidelines. Responsibilities PCB hardware architecture, design, development, and testing Collaborate with internal engineering and validation teams to analyze and debug complex system level issues and develop solutions Bridge the communication between field and engineering teams for field issues and manage issue status tracking Assist with the design, debug, and testing of embedded microcontroller software drivers, algorithms, application code, board support packages, automated scripts, and design test cases to provide the required functionality to end customers Develop manufacturing test procedures and hardware for board builds overseas Create application notes, knowledgebase articles, and hardware design guidelines Assist customers with the use of SDK and hardware platforms Job Requirements Required Skills / Qualifications: Bachelor Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering Minimum 4 years experience in PCB design, test and debug Preferred Skills / Qualifications: Experience with hardware architecture design, component placement, layout, manufacturing test, system bring-up and testing. Experience designing PCB schematics and layout using Altium Designer, Cadence, or similar PCB design software Familiarity with MCU peripherals including SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, MIPI, USB, I2S and PDM is a plus. Experience with controlled impedance and high-speed interface PCB layout Experience working hands-on in the lab and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers Excellent problem-solving skills dealing with complex system level issues related to HW/SW debug Experience with at least one MCU IDE from ARM, Keil, IAR, Eclipse or other is a plus Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. The Aleron companies welcome and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status. Apply