Headquartered in Ottawa, BTA Design serves the electronic design community in Canada and beyond, specializing in ASIC and FPGA design and verification, and embedded software development services. We augment and enhance our clients’ teams and accelerate the development of complete designs.
We’re adaptable and efficient, with a brilliant staff at our core. We aim to be the best at what we do.
Our success continues to fuel growth. We are currently searching for a number of key technical resources, including a Senior Hardware Design Engineer to work on fighter jets in the Mil-Aero space.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct customer requirements analysis.
• Perform circuit board level architecture and design.
• Selection of components ensuring they meet electrical and functional interoperability.
• Configuration control.
• Hardware integration.
• LRU-level design leadership.
• Manage PCB layout resources.
• Test and debug designs once prototypes are built.
• Prepare and maintain design documentation and participate in reviews: system requirements, functional requirements, hardware and software user guides, verification test plans, system test plans.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate is a senior/staff/principal Hardware Design Engineer with the following:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in progressive roles.
• Board level development experience utilizing high-speed digital circuits, analog circuits, power supply design, RF microwave circuits and/or FPGAs.
• Experience with capturing requirements, work package definition, effort estimation and then designing and testing hardware vs requirements.
• Familiarity with DO-254.
• Experience designing products to meet extended temperatures, radiation hardened, high reliability and EMI/EMC compliance.
• Experience with schematic design capture tools. (Mentor Graphics and/or Cadence)
• Experience with PCB layout design tools preferred. (Mentor Graphics, Altium)
• Experience with signal integrity analysis tools is an asset (Hyperlynx).
• Experience with using diagnostics tools like Digital Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, DVMs.
• Experience in a lab environment, troubleshooting issues up to the system level.
• Able to pass security assessment for the Canadian Controlled Groups Program (CGP).
• Track record as a self-starter, a team player and a leader.

Additional Assets

• Design experience for the military or aerospace industries and aircraft.
• LRU-level hardware design and reuse experience as well as experience integrating interfaces such as PCIe and 1553B.
• Experience with Hardware defect tracking tools and test methodologies.
• Ability to obtain a Federal Government Security Clearance (minimum Secret Level II).

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• Conduct customer requirements analysis.
• Perform circuit board level architecture and design.
• Selection of components ensuring they meet electrical and functional interoperability.
• Configuration control.
• Hardware integration.
• LRU-level design leadership.
• Manage PCB layout resources.
• Test and debug designs once prototypes are built.
• Prepare and maintain design documentation and participate in reviews: system requirements, functional requirements, hardware and software user guides, verification test plans, system test plans