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Join Our Team as a Senior Hardware Engineer

Company: Coreforce
Location: Hybrid /Remote
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Based on Experience

Company Overview:
Coreforce is an innovative SaaS company providing digital solutions for frontline professionals. Our products, body cameras, in-car videos, mobile routers, and digital evidence systems, help public safety officers and first responders save lives, strengthen community trust, and enhance accountability.

Senior Hardware Engineer – Build Your Career with Purpose

Join Coreforce and use your executive skills to support innovative technology that strengthens communities.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• 15 PTO days + floating holiday
• Competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k). We provide 401(k) matching per the terms of the 401(k) plan.   
• Annual bonus and tuition reimbursement
• Career growth in a fast-growing, mission-driven company
• Collaborative, purpose-driven culture

Responsibilities:

Hardware Architecture and Design

• Lead end-to-end hardware design for embedded and IoT devices, from requirements and block diagrams through detailed schematics and design documentation.
• Own schematic capture and library management in Altium, including symbol/footprint creation, design rules, and version control.
• Collaborate with firmware and software teams to define hardware-software interfaces, boot architectures, and system-level behaviors for ARM-based platforms.
• Design robust power delivery and distribution networks, including Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions where applicable.

• Run and participate in formal schematic and design reviews, ensuring signal integrity, power integrity, EMC, thermal considerations, and manufacturability are addressed.
• Define and enforce hardware design standards, checklists, and best practices for the team.
• Partner with layout engineers to guide placement, routing, stackup selection, and high-speed constraints (including PCIe and Ethernet).

• Work closely with embedded firmware engineers to bring up new boards, debug bring-up issues, and optimize hardware/firmware interactions.
• Support firmware development with clear documentation of registers, interfaces, and hardware behaviors.
• Use lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers) to diagnose and resolve system-level issues that span hardware and firmware.

• Drive rapid prototyping of new concepts, including proof-of-concept boards, evaluation modules, and test fixtures.
• Define and execute hardware validation plans, including functional testing, environmental and stress testing, and interface interoperability (BLE, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Cellular, PCIe, PoE).
• Analyze test data, identify root causes, and implement hardware design improvements.

• Collaborate with component suppliers, contract manufacturers, and fabrication/assembly partners to ensure designs meet cost, quality, and lead-time targets.
• Participate in component selection, sourcing decisions, and lifecycle management, including obsolescence and supply-chain risk mitigation.
• Review and refine manufacturing documentation (BOMs, assembly drawings, test procedures) and support NPI builds.

• Design and integrate wired and wireless connectivity solutions, including BLE, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Cellular, for connected devices.
• Ensure hardware designs support secure, reliable data capture and transmission in real-world network conditions.
• Work with systems, software, and cloud teams to ensure end-to-end interoperability for IoT devices.

• Use AI tools daily to accelerate schematic design, documentation, design reviews, test planning, and troubleshooting.
• Institutionalize effective AI workflows for the hardware team (for example, generating design checklists, parsing datasheets, creating test scripts, summarizing lab findings).

• Partner with product management, firmware/software engineering, quality, and field teams to translate customer and domain requirements into robust hardware solutions.
• Communicate complex technical tradeoffs and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers and reviewers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) or closely related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in hardware design for embedded systems or IoT devices.
• Strong proficiency with Altium Designer for schematic capture and library management.
• Proven experience designing with ARM processor families, including power, clocking, memory, and peripheral interfaces.
• Demonstrated expertise in schematic design and formal schematic review, including cross-functional design reviews.
• Hands-on experience supporting or collaborating on embedded firmware development and board bring-up.
• Experience designing and validating networked or IoT devices, including at least one of: BLE, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or Cellular connectivity.
• Working knowledge of PCIe or other high-speed digital interfaces, including basic signal integrity considerations.
• Experience with Power over Ethernet (PoE) design and integration (power budgets, isolation, protection, and safety considerations).
• Day-to-day proficiency with AI tools for engineering tasks (for example, design assistance, documentation, troubleshooting, test planning).
• Strong lab skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other common hardware debug tools.
• Ability to interpret complex datasheets, reference designs, and application notes and translate them into robust hardware implementations.
• Excellent problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear design documentation and review materials.

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