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Salary: USD 164,594 - 246,788 / annual
Echodyne is seeking a Principal Analog and Mixed-Signal Electrical Engineer to join the Advanced Technology Development team and lead new circuit architectures, signal-chain development, power solutions, and rapid hardware prototyping for future radar products. The company develops compact solid-state beam-steering radar systems for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft, drones, and critical infrastructure security using patented metamaterial technology.
In this role, you will have meaningful technical ownership and see your work move directly into future radar products. You will lead analog, mixed-signal, timing, data-conversion, and power technology development for critical radar platforms. Key responsibilities include:
• Turn emerging system needs into practical receiver interfaces, converter and clocking architectures, power circuits, prototypes, and validated reference designs
• Design, simulate, build, bring up, and characterize prototype hardware to prove feasibility and reduce technical risk early
• Collaborate with RF, FPGA, PCB design, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and key stakeholders to deliver mission-critical hardware within challenging engineering constraints
• Apply modern best-practices and establish practical guidance for reliability, design for manufacturing (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), signal and power integrity, and testability
• Provide Principal-level leadership through architecture and design reviews, mentoring, hands-on problem solving, lab investigation, and transition of proven capabilities into product development
You will work on prototype development including high-speed data acquisition, precision timing, compute interfaces, calibration hardware, and power entry and conditioning for larger radar platforms. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on analog and mixed-signal design depth with technical judgment, experimental discipline, and experience carrying hardware from architecture through characterization and product transition.
REQUIREMENTS:
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related technical field and at least 12 years of relevant electrical hardware development experience, or equivalent combination of education and industry experience
• Strong hands-on experience in analog and mixed-signal circuit design across architecture, schematic design, simulation, layout support, prototype bring-up, characterization, and verification
• Experience with low-noise receiver interfaces, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, down-conversion or intermediate-frequency circuits, timing, clock distribution, and frequency synthesizers
• Broad knowledge of signal-chain analysis, noise, linearity, dynamic range, sampling, jitter, grounding, shielding, signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI/EMC
• Experience with circuit modeling, SPICE simulation, design analysis, PCB implementation, laboratory instrumentation, data acquisition, and automated test
• Experience with power architecture, regulators and converters, power entry and conditioning, protection, sequencing, or higher-power electronic subsystems
• Ability to connect measured results to models, design decisions, operating limits, requirements, and technical risks
• Experience in advanced development, applied research, rapid prototyping, or early hardware technology maturation
• Competence with MATLAB, SPICE tools, Ansys Electronics Desktop, or equivalent analysis and simulation environments
• Ability to communicate complex electrical recommendations clearly across engineering disciplines
• Eligibility to handle export-controlled technical data, including ITAR- and EAR-controlled information (U.S. Citizen, green card holder, or asylum/refugee status required)
DESIRED:
• Experience developing hardware for radar, sensing, aerospace, defense, autonomous systems, or other high-reliability and mission-critical products
• Experience with FPGA or SoC hardware integration, high-speed serial interfaces, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or automated prototype characterization
