Tarana Wireless · 2 days ago
Principal Hardware Design Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$185K/yr - $240K/yr
15+ years expTarana Wireless is a fast-growing tech company on a mission to revolutionize broadband with its innovative Fixed Wireless Access technology. The Principal Hardware Design Engineer will take a leadership role in designing and testing hardware systems for high-speed wireless technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define requirements and improve performance.
Communications InfrastructureMobileWireless
Responsibilities
Take a leadership role in architecting, designing PCBAs from prototype to NPI and high volume production stage
High-speed circuit designs including fast processors, modern large-scale FPGAs, DDRs, PCIe and other high-speed SerDes and high-efficiency power supplies
Schematics and layout design for innovative high speed wireless systems
Circuit designs using discretes (passive and active) for integration, filtering, etc
Work with extended cross-functional teams of other hardware designers, mechanical engineers, operations engineers and software engineers
Work with product management, Operations and Engineering leadership to define the requirements and trade-offs
Provide leadership in value engineering to continuously improve performance and cost
Understand and make design recommendations to improve radio frequency performance
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
15+ years experience with wireless hardware (5G client devices, base stations, Wi-Fi) design aspects
Very deep familiarity with digital, mechanical, analog baseband and RF designs
Expertise using equipment such as spectrum and network analyzers and high speed oscilloscopes
Experience with Ethernet, DDR4 waveforms and protocols, wireless performance tests
Ability to define subsystem performance requirements, analyze through modeling and simulations
Design PCBAs from concept, architecture, schematics, layout, bringing up, testing and all the way to high-volume production
Hardware test equipment usage (eg, spectrum analyzers or power meters, Ethernet traffic testing, High-speed serial lanes testing)
Familiar with design cycles and able to use the Arena PLM tool
Able to work well with cross-functional teams
Preferred
MS in Electrical Engineering
Knowledge of networking
Statistical analysis abilities
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision benefits
401K match
Flexible time off
Stock option
Company
Tarana Wireless
Tarana Wireless provides wireless performance in small-cell backhaul, fiber extension, and residential broadband.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$426.14MKey Investors
Digital AlphaPrime Movers Lab
2023-09-13Private Equity· $50M
2022-03-23Series Unknown· $170M
2021-05-12Series Unknown· $50M
Leadership Team
Basil Alwan
Chairman, CEO
Omar Bakr
Co-Founder
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