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Hardware Application Engineer VI
Hardware Application Engineer VIFrontgrade • Colorado Springs, CO, US
Hardware Application Engineer VI

Hardware Application Engineer VI

Frontgrade • Colorado Springs, CO, US
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For more than six decades, the skilled thinkers, makers, and doers at Frontgrade have embraced our mission to solve complex technology challenges across the U.S. and around the globe.

We're the leading provider of high reliability and radiation assured solutions for defense, space, intelligence, commercial, and civil applications, and our products are designed to perform in the harshest of environments. From human spaceflight and space exploration to missile defense, electronic warfare, and healthcare tech advancements, our talented team stays in lockstep with our customers to ensure the success of their missions.

Do you want to help shape the future? In an environment where innovation and ideas go hand-in-hand? Then come join the Frontgrade Team!

Why Work For Us

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You'll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond.

Other benefits include :

Competitive Benefits : Medical (FSA + HSA), Dental, and Vision

Immediate 401K Vesting / Matching

Career Opportunity and Growth

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment

Generous PTO and 11 paid Holidays per year (8 regular and 3 floating)

8 weeks of 100% Paid Family Leave

  • ProfitSharingPlan applies to all non-Annual Incentive Plan and non-Sales Incentive Plan employees.

Overview

We're looking for a highly skilled, customer-focused Hardware Application Engineer (Technical Support Engineer) to join our Technology Office supporting module and subsystem products.

You'll pair deep hardware design expertise with hands-on lab skills to help customers evaluate, integrate, and deploy our platforms. Our focus is to deliver hardware interface solutions, and integration guidance that reduce customer integration time and enable seamless adoption of our innovative hardware into their system architectures.

Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.

Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful system bring-up, integration, and component compatibility (power, clocks / resets, high-speed interfaces).
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders; represent the product in customer design reviews.

  • Work closely with customers and internal teams to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve hardware integration issues; reproduce problems, identify root cause, and validate fixes using lab tools.
  • Prepare comprehensive technical documentation
  • application notes, user manuals, bring-up checklists / guides, schematic snippets, and reference BOMs.

  • Partner with software / application engineering to align firmware / BSP / driver interfaces with hardware features and constraints.
  • Provide timely, accurate responses to customer inquiries on hardware functionality and system integration; travel to customer sites as needed.

    Diagnosing and resolving system-level signal-integrity issues.

    Qualifications

    QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

    Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

    Minimum twelve (12) years of experience in a specialized functional discipline.

    OR (16) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelors Degree.

    OR (10) years of experience may be considered w / a Masters Degree.

    OR (7) years of experience may be considered w / a PhD.

  • Familiar with processor architectures : ARM, LEON (SPARC), and RISC-V
  • Strong understanding of power architectures (DC-DC, LDOs, sequencing / supervisors) and clock distribution
  • In-depth knowledge of SpaceVPX (VITA 78) ; experience with VNX+ (VITA 90.x)
  • Familiarity with VPX connectors (e.g., MultiGig RT2) and rugged enclosures
  • Proficient with system and I / O interfaces : SpaceWire, CAN, UART, MIL-STD-1553, PCIe, Serial RapidIO
  • Knowledge of memory and mixed-signal devices
  • MRAM, FRAM, EDAC-enabled SRAM, ADCs / DACs, and sensor interfaces.

  • Familiar with ECAD tools : Altium Designer, Siemens Xpedition (or similar).
  • Familiar with FPGA tools : Microchip Libero, Xilinx / AMD Vivado
  • Familiar with debug / bring-up tools : JTAG / SWD , in-circuit emulators; comfort with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
  • Familiarity with Python scripting for hardware automation or testbench support.

  • Familiarity with satellite onboard computers (OBCs) and command & data handling (C&DH) subsystems.
  • Understanding of radiation effects (SEU, TID) and mitigation ( TMR, EDAC, scrubbing ); reliability analysis ( MTBF, FMEA ) and derating practices.
  • Familiarity with ECSS / NASA hardware development standards (e.g., ECSS-Q-ST-60, ECSS-E-ST-20).
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by either ITAR or EAR U.S. export laws. As a condition to this job offer, in order to be employed in this position, you must be able to obtain an U.S. Government export license(s), as required by law.

  • Pay Range : $164,000 - $209,000 annually . Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate.
  • WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

    We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

    We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email

    Careers@Frontgrade.com

    If you have relevant skills that are not reflected in your resume, we welcome your application and encourage you to share more in an optional cover letter or to join our Talent Community Connect Portal - Connect (icims.com)

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