Senior/Lead Hardware Design Engineer

Cognizant

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Work type: Remote
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Salary: $100,000–$130,000 / yr
Posted: 18 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 27 roles within 25 mi

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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The Senior/Lead Hardware Design Engineer joins the IoT Practice to lead hardware development from initial architecture through final production. This role involves collaborating with firmware, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams to build intelligent, IoT-enabled products. The engineer will perform mixed-signal hardware design, focusing on analog and digital electronics, PCB design, and safety-critical systems. Key responsibilities include designing power supplies, signal conditioning, ADC/DAC, and filters while ensuring signal and power integrity. Required technical skills include proficiency with FPGA, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and Altium for PCB review. Candidates must utilize communication protocols like SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, USB, and Ethernet. The role requires expertise in SPICE/PSPICE simulations, EMI/EMC, environmental testing, DFMEA, and reliability analysis for industrial or safety-critical applications like aerospace, nuclear, or medical products.

Skills

Mixed-Signal Hardware Design FPGA Microcontrollers Digital Circuit Design PCB Design Altium SPI I2C CAN UART USB Ethernet Signal Integrity Power Integrity SPICE PSPICE EMI EMC DFMEA PCIe DDR LPDDR NOR Flash

What you'll do

Lead hardware development from initial architecture through final production.
Design complex analog and digital circuits for mixed-signal systems.
Develop hardware for FPGAs, microprocessors, and microcontrollers.
Create and review PCB layouts using Altium software.
Perform signal integrity and power integrity analysis for all designs.
Conduct hardware verification using SPICE/PSPICE simulations and debugging techniques.
Execute EMI/EMC testing, environmental testing, and DFMEA reliability analysis.
Manage cross-functional engineering teams including firmware, mechanical, and manufacturing departments.

What we're looking for

10+ years of hardware design and development experience.
Strong expertise in analog and digital circuit design.
Experience with FPGA, microprocessors, and microcontrollers.
Hands-on experience with mixed-signal systems and sensor interfaces.
Strong knowledge of power supplies, signal conditioning, ADC/DAC, and filters.
Experience with PCB design/review using Altium.
Knowledge of communication protocols including SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, USB, and Ethernet.
Experience with signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) analysis.
Familiarity with SPICE/PSPICE simulations and hardware verification.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
Experience with EMI/EMC, environmental testing, DFMEA, and reliability analysis.
Experience in aerospace, nuclear, medical, industrial, or other safety-critical products (preferred).
Exposure to PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, NAND/NOR Flash (preferred).
Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams (preferred).

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