Overview
Sealevel Systems, Inc., is an industrial I/O design and manufacturing company, providing customizable and interoperable I/O solutions to customers since 1986. Our story began with serial communication innovations and continues with I/O interfaces and cutting-edge industrial computers – engineered and manufactured at our headquarters in Liberty, South Carolina.
The company is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer for the Engineering Department with a particular focus on high-end computing chip-down design of x86 and ARM CPUs. This position will develop next generation industrial computing and input/output products for a wide range of applications. As part of the Sealevel Engineering Team, you will design leading edge solutions for off-the-shelf standard products and custom, ruggedized systems for use in industrial, defense, energy, transportation, public safety, and other critical industries.
Reporting Relationship
The position will report to the Director of Engineering.

Objectives and Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of new product development including definition, schematic design, prototype implementation, and verification testing.
• Work closely with management to define project requirements and schedule
• Oversee cost analyses for new products to achieve defined targets
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project cost
• Perform component research and selection. Establish and maintain relationships with component vendors and FAEs
• Participate in peer reviews of schematics, PCB designs, cables, mechanical packaging, and standards compliance.
• Work closely with firmware and software engineers to define and develop embedded firmware and software to support designs.
• Test and debug prototype designs, integrate and test with Windows, Linux OS and other embedded OS and software as needed.
• Work closely with test engineer to ensure proper function and performance of products is achieved.
• Aid in the resolution of hardware/software compatibility issues.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure a smooth transition from design to production • Ownership of new revisions of existing products.
• Assist the Technical Support Department with resolving customer and product issues.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Engineering.

Competencies

• Must have real world design experience with x86 CPU (Intel preferred, AMD also helpful) and system designs.
• Must have strong grasp and knowledge of UEFI BIOS, Embedded Controllers and other embedded firmware commonly used and critical to x86 embedded system operation.
• Design experience with common computer expansion buses including:
• PCI Express GEN1-GEN4
• PCIe Expansion Cards
• PCIe/NVMe based solid state drives
• Ethernet standards including but not limited to:
• 10/100/1000Base-T
• 10GbE, (including 10GBase-T, 10GBase-KR, XFI, XAUI, SERDES)
• SFP+ Fiber Optic Transceiver modules and Direct Attach Cables
• USB downstream and upstream ports
• USB2.0 (Low Speed, Full Speed, High Speed)
• USB3.1/3.2 up to GEN2 Speeds.
• SATA Disk Drive Interfaces
• General knowledge of legacy expansion interfaces like PCI, ISA, IDE, LPC, etc
• Design experience with common embedded communication busses and devices including but not limited to:
• I2C
• I3C

• Participate in all aspects of new product development including definition, schematic design, prototype implementation, and verification testing.
• Work closely with management to define project requirements and schedule
• Oversee cost analyses for new products to achieve defined targets
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project cost
• Perform component research and selection. Establish and maintain relationships with component vendors and FAEs
• Participate in peer reviews of schematics, PCB designs, cables, mechanical packaging, and standards compliance.
• Work closely with firmware and software engineers to define and develop embedded firmware and software to support designs.
• Test and debug prototype designs, integrate and test with Windows, Linux OS and other embedded OS and software as needed.
• Work closely with test engineer to ensure proper function and performance of products is achieved.
• Aid in the resolution of hardware/software compatibility issues.
• Collaborate with manufacturing to ensure a smooth transition from design to production • Ownership of new revisions of existing products.
• Assist the Technical Support Department with resolving customer and product issues.
• Other duties as assigned by the Director of Engineering