Role OverviewNorthwood is looking for an Electrical Architect to help drive the definition and architecture of our digital compute and power electronics systems. As the Electrical Architect, you will act as the Responsible Engineer for the electrical system, owning architecture decisions, driving system-level trades, and ensuring coherence across boards, subsystems, and disciplines.
What You Will Do
Own the electrical architecture and system-level design for high-speed digital communication systems, define system-level architecture for multi-gigabit networking and complex digital power trees, and drive system trades that shape architecture decisions across the product.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment. The company offers long-term incentives such as company stock options and discretionary performance bonuses, equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, flexible spending accounts, flexible time off, 10 or more paid holidays per year, retirement savings plans, and opportunities for professional development.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years of professional experience in electrical design, including experience operating at the system or architecture level
- Proficient in high-density/high-speed design (including FPGAs, high speed data converters, SerDes, 10/100 GigE, networking, JESD204C)
- Proficient in schematic capture and good PCB layout design
- Experience with troubleshooting EMI/EMC, either conducted or radiated
- Knowledge of PCB materials and developing board stack-up definition
- Experience with full product lifecycle (concept through production), including owning architecture-level decisions across that lifecycle
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible time off
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- retirement savings plans
- opportunities for professional development
- company stock options
- discretionary performance bonuses
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