Principal Hardware Design Engineer

Tarana Wireless • Milpitas, CA • 5h ago

Join the Team That's Redefining Wireless Technology

At Tarana, we're more than just a fast-growing tech company-we're a team of bold innovators on a mission to revolutionize broadband. Our groundbreaking Fixed Wireless Access technology is delivering fiber-class internet speeds worldwide, bridging the digital divide in ways previously thought impossible.

Tarana is a fast revenue growth company built by outstanding talented people and with innovative technology. Our hardware development team is looking for a smart, experienced, and hardworking member working to design and test Hardware systems in different configurations. The ideal candidate would have 15+ years experience with wireless hardware (5G client devices, base stations, Wi-Fi) design aspects and will have very deep familiarity with digital, mechanical, analog baseband and RF designs. He or she will also have expertise using such equipment as spectrum and network analyzers and high speed oscilloscopes. Experience with Ethernet, DDR4 waveforms and protocols, wireless performance tests are desired. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and 15 years of hardware design and test.

What you'll be doing:

Take a leadership role in architecting, designing PCBAs from proto@type 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.

What You'll Need:

Bachelor's degree (MS preferred) in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant Experience.

Wireless hardware design expertise (digital and analog) with complex high-speed board design experience.

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) and guide 4-corner testing and qualification.

Familiar with design cycles and able to use the Arena PLM tool.

Knowledge of networking is highly desirable.

Able to work well with cross-functional teams, such as the compliance team (to help get regulatory approvals), the RF team (to test and integrate into products with antennas and test/knowledge of S parameters, phase noise and isolation, return loss, etc), the OPS teams (solving production issues) and the SW teams.

Statistical analysis abilities are a plus.

What we offer:

We don't just build next-gen wireless technology - we build people.

The salary range for this position is: $185,000 to $240,000

Compensation will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to: skill set, years of experience and the employee's geographic location.

Tarana provides competitive benefits to employees in this role including: Medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, flexible time off and stock option.

Join Tarana and help shape the future of wireless connectivity.

About Us

Tarana's mission is to accelerate the deployment of fast, affordable internet access around the world. Through a decade of R&D and more than $400M of investment, the Tarana team has created a unique next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) technology instantiated in its first commercial platform, Gigabit 1 (G1). It delivers a game-changing advance in broadband economics in both mainstream and underserved markets, using either licensed or unlicensed spectrum. G1 started production in mid-2021 and has since been embraced by more than 250 service providers in 19 countries and 41 US states.

Tarana is headquartered in Milpitas, California, with additional research and development in Pune, India. Visit our website for more on G1.

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