Senior Hardware Engineer - Embedded Systems

Job Description

About the Role:

We are an Automation Controls company founded in 1967 and operating from Bettendorf, Iowa. We design and manufacture all our products in USA. We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Hardware Engineer to design, develop, optimize and troubleshoot embedded circuits for cutting-edge applications. Designs would have a strict budget for material and labor costs to manufacture the new products. This role requires a meticulous and thorough approach to ensure low cost yet high reliability and robust performance in mission-critical systems. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of embedded hardware design, power management, signal integrity, and compliance with industry standards. You will work directly under our Chairman and CEO who is among the top 100 hardware engineers in the world. You will go through an extremely challenging technical interview with him, hence only qualified candidates should apply.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-reliability embedded hardware and other circuits for real-world applications.
• Understand detailed specifications (absolute, thermal, electrical, static and dynamic timing, power turn on and off) of all semiconductor and passive components while designing these circuits.
• Perform detailed circuit design, schematic capture, and PCB layout review for optimal signal integrity and EMI/EMC compliance.
• Select high-quality electronic components to ensure long-term availability and robustness.
• Conduct rigorous design validation, testing, and debugging at both the board and system levels.
• Work closely with firmware engineers to optimize hardware/software integration.
• Implement power-efficient designs while maintaining strict performance standards.
• Develop and execute reliability tests, failure analysis, and root-cause investigations of prototypes, pilot production runs and field returns to enhance design integrity and durability. We are a QS9000 8D root cause analysis company.
• Ensure compliance with safety, EMI/EMC, and regulatory standards (FCC, CE, UL, etc.).
• Generate detailed documentation, including schematics, BOMs, and design rationale for traceability.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and participate in peer reviews.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics
• 7 years of experience in low cost yet high-reliability embedded hardware design.
• Thorough designer who looks at all component specifications thoroughly, has deep understanding of circuits (no copy and paste, no AI aids as interview with our Chairman quickly removes unworthy candidates).
• Thorough designer who is so confident of paper design that it can go straight to production without prototyping.
• Innovative thinker in circuit and product design.
• Strong expertise in analog/digital circuit design, high-speed interfaces, Switching power supplies and mixed-signal systems.
• Experience with microcontrollers, FPGAs, and embedded processors.
• Deep knowledge of PCB design principles, stack-up considerations, and signal integrity analysis.
• Proficiency with schematic capture (Altium, OrCAD, KiCad) and PCB layout review tools.
• Experience with power management, thermal considerations, and fault-tolerant design.
• Familiarity with EMI/EMC mitigation techniques and regulatory compliance testing.
• Strong debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers.
• Ability to document designs thoroughly and communicate complex concepts effectively.
• Passion for designing low cost yet highly reliable, mission-critical embedded systems.
  
  

What We Offer

• $80K salary in a town where cost of living is 20 % lower than Chicago and 40% lower than California.
• Greatest opportunities for professional and income growth.
• Secure employment with an established company.
• Great positive atmosphere and work environment.
• Opportunity to work on cutting - edge embedded and other technologies.
• A collaborative, engineering - driven culture focused on innovation and reliability.
• A unique opportunity to work directly for the Chief Engineer, and also Chairman and CEO of the company.
• Lots of patents where your name would appear.
• Based in Bettendorf, Iowa - enjoy affordable living, a relaxed lifestyle, and easy access to Chicago. (with no traffic stress!)
  
  

Company Description

AVG Group of Companies is a mini-conglomerate of many different electronic companies, operating world-wide with its main manufacturing facility in Bettendorf, Iowa

AVG Group of Companies is a mini-conglomerate of many different electronic companies, operating world-wide with its main manufacturing facility in Bettendorf, Iowa