Hardware Engineer (R&D19)

Digital Hardware Engineer

Platforms Digital Hardware Engineers are part of a team dedicated to research and development of state-of-the-art edge-computing platforms designed to become trusted building blocks on which most of the new generation Datalogic products will be based.

Main duties and responsibilities of a Platforms Digital Hardware Engineers are:

• to contribute to define detailed requirements of new edge-computing platforms, starting from higher level requirements provided by Datalogic Business Units
• to design and develop new edge-computing platforms in accordance with predefined project requirements and in collaboration with BSP-SW engineers and the other involved R&D, Procurement, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Quality teams
• to scout and evaluate novel technologies and electronic components suitable to develop new edge-computing platforms
• to design electrical schematics and to support layout design and simulations of PCBs
• to design FPGA-based subsystems of edge-computing platforms and to implement them through VHDL programming
• to contribute to define the validation-test plans assuring full coverage of all requirements of electronic boards under development
• to perform measurements and functional tests on prototypes and alpha/beta samples of the designed boards, by using the needed instruments and equipment
• to debug prototypes and alpha/beta samples of the designed boards
• to take care of technical documentation of design, development, and test activities
• to support Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team in implementing and optimizing mass-production processes of boards based on the developed edge-computing platforms
• to support Procurement team in material-cost-reduction activities related to the developed edge-computing platforms
• to support program managers to estimate effort required to carry out assigned tasks and to keep updated project plans, facilitating monitoring of own task progress
• to embrace innovation culture of our Company, contributing to generate invention disclosures and to scout/evaluate novel and differentiating technologies.

Requirements:

• Education: Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering or Computer Science Engineering
• Languages: Italian and English (intermediate or better)
• Experience: more than five years of hands-on experience in design, development and validation of digital boards featuring processors with external memory buses and high-speed data-transfer interfaces

Specific Skills:

• Good command of digital systems based on microprocessors (mandatory)
• Good command of CAD tools for schematic entry (mandatory)
• Good command of laboratory instrumentation for electronic board testing (mandatory)
• Good command of CAD tools for PCB signal integrity analysis (highly preferred)
• Good command of high-speed data-transfer interfaces (highly preferred)
• Good command of FPGA programming through VHDL (highly preferred)
• Good command of C/C++ programming languages (highly preferred)
• Good knowledge of Linux operating system (preferred)

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